Since I’d made all kinds of green and pink and lavender radially symmetrical canes for the floral beads, and I didn’t want to make any more floral beads, I used up the canes and practiced placing dots on these clear glass forms. I really like the way dots can look when they’re accurately placed. One …
Tag: lampworking
Nov 18
Lavender Floral Bead
May 24
Rabbits of Willendorf
Laurie Nessel did a demo in this class where she made these amazing little netsuke rabbits out of a solid lump of glass. These were my attempt. I think I need a lot more progress if I’m going to make rabbits that look like rabbits. Maybe the glass was too hot, or maybe I pushed …
May 22
Eggs Three and Four
Two more eggs, nesting in the glass nests I made. I tried to think of nice colors for the Easter eggs that I would like to look at, but I couldn’t think of any, so I made these ugly ones instead. It occured to me that I could make natural colored eggs, but wouldn’t it …
Mar 11
Core Formed Vessel, “Jupiter”
This is the second core formed vessel I made in Laurie Nessel’s workshop at the Mesa Art Center I had an idea of making a vessel that was whorled and striped like the planet Jupiter. The ivory came out brighter in contrast to the red than I had anticipated, and the eye looks a little …