Mar 04
This was the second cup I made, right after the twice green cup. Another student did a technique which I believe is called engobing, where you cover a piece with a layer of colored glass. When you first mash the hot glass on, it looks a little like one of those frowning bad guys that …
Jun 24
This is the cup that my friend chose as his favorite of the ones I made in the class I took in February, so this is the one I gave him for his birthday. The only sad thing is that he has good taste, and this is my favorite cup too. At least I still …
Jun 17
I made this tumbler to try to practice dragging stringer lines with simple swirls of color rather than actual stringers. To make a stringer, you need to have a piece of colored glass hot enough that it will stick to a punti, which means putting it in the annealer, which takes more foresight than I …
Jun 10
I wanted to make a tumbler using a special mold that looks a little like a cuddly version of an iron maiden. It’s cylindrical and tapered, with dull spikes all over the inside, and if you were to use it on a simple piece of glass, you’d get a shape not unlike some jelly glasses from the …
Jun 03
To make this flower, I used a flower-shaped optics mold. the idea was to have an even number of petals because of the uniformity of the mold, but I melted it too many times and the petals lost their distinction. I think that clipping the edges makes for better petals.
