Show and Tell

Since I'm here, I might as well shamelessly post a few of the creations I make as I do them. I had a nearly a year off from working in the glass studio as I was working on my business degree. So I felt a little shaky when I started up again. Fortunately I have a bunch of peers that are positive thinking and always are a bunch of help. Also about 1/2 way through this semester my instructor set up a studio time on Fridays to work together on. One-on-one help from a professional doing this for 35+ years is tremendous. Now if I could only find some way to leech info from him via some sort of brain transfer...


The pieces in the upper left is a small vase of a style that I was working on in Fall '03, where just about everything had a spiral design in it. So after having 2 miserable weeks of making less than satisfactory work, I went back to this to help boost the confidence. I don't want to think about would've happen had I flopped this. As it turned out, this turned out even better then some of my stuff from back then. Well blown, even, proportionate, and well just damn nice if I do say so.... I dunno if the picture confuses anyone, but the spiral is only going one way on this. It's transparent and the lines that appear to be crossing are actually just those on the back side, hence the distortion...yadda yadda... (vase: 6 3/8" tall, black)





This one on the right was a little Swedish type (heavy on the bottom, this one to an extreme) one I pulled off last week. Miss A. likes the bold white stripe on it, I'm not all together certain I do, I was originally thinking a smaller thin white line. Although I may be bias since it simply didn't come out quite as planned...which has been a major goal for me. Yet, the form came out as I planned and I ought to be pleased with that. I've become more picky about what I accept as good...unfortunately that leads to me scrapping a lot of semi-good pieces. I feel that I need to demand better of myself.
(vase 8 3.8" tall, cherry apple red w/white)







Last but not least, is this little job on the left. It's actually from Fall '04, but I like this one so much I figure I'd put it up here. This is a style that I was proud to say I developed...although its possible (and likely) there have been artisans in the past that have done this. But I thought of it on my own and it turns out wonderful. The form is nothing new, but the two colors and how the pattern is worked in can be tricky. I received a lot of positive feedback on this style from other students and professional glassworkers alike. I have made quite a few of this type and still have a bunch as this type was all I made for a while.


I plan on going back to this design within the year to start working with them on a larger scale. But in the mean time I'm focusing on some other work and building skills.

(vase: 10", black & yellow(has some green undertones))

I have to try to setup a better way to shoot pictures. I just purchased some nice white cloth to use as a back drop. Now I need to setup some descent lighting, as we use a lot of fluorescents in out home. So I'll put something together and hopefully the pictures in the future will be a little bit nicer. *YAWN* off to bed. have to get up in 5 hours to go to the studio again and get something done...