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FriendFeedLoving astronomy, and becoming a glassblower, it was only a matter of time before we would try re-creating the planets and Sun in blown glass. It is an interesting challenge to figure out the right mix of colors, the density of the colors and how big or small the chips of color (frit) need to be so that they will mix and swirl together and look like whichever planet's… Read the Full Story...
Archive for the ‘sculpture’ Category
Making Saturn
Sunday, August 7th, 2011I Have the Best Friends in the World!
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Recently, we ran a Kickstarter program. Kickstarter.com is a place for creatives to post a project they’re trying to raise money for. There are art projects, films, books, inventions… all kinds of really cool things on there, all trying to get funding so that they can be created. The artists/writers/inventors/whatevers post a story about the project they want to do and offer “rewards” to anyone who will donate to… Read the Full Story...
New Kickstarter Project
Thursday, March 24th, 2011Each year, we travel to Colorado Springs to attend the National Space Symposium. Actually, we don’t *attend*, we work. First off, we move the giant glass sculpture from it's home at the Space Foundation corporate headquarters to where the conference is. When we're done moving and setting it back up, we spend the rest of the week exhibiting our work in a booth in the exhibit hall with… Read the Full Story...
How Things Ought to Work!
Sunday, March 6th, 2011I love it when things work out just right.
Ten days ago, I got a call from a lady who had seen our Baptismal Bowls website and wanted to know if we could do a custom piece for her church. The bowls on the website are large – 18 inches diameter by 5 inches deep. She needed one that was about 12 inches across by 4 inches… Read the Full Story...
Design to Creation
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011A really fun part of my job is the first contact I get with a new client and they say “We’re thinking of something, but we don’t know what. Is that possible?” and then from there, based on their budget, the use and how wild they want to be, I get to design and create a piece of artwork that is new and truly unique.
A little… Read the Full Story...
Just like Chihuly
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010It's the singular quote we hear more often from people who see our larger pieces of artwork. "Wow, it's just like Chihuly!" I used to get a little miffed at that comment, because our works are NOT just like Chihuly. Our works are our own and usually meant to depict something in particular, like the Solar System. From the many pieces I’ve seen of his works, they’re a conglomeration… Read the Full Story...
Sink Successes
Thursday, July 1st, 2010I got to thinking that for the past several months, I've been discussing the failures with that sink job, both on here and on my Facebook/Twitter accounts. I've gotten comments that maybe I shouldn't spend my time making sinks. Well, it isn't that I *can't* make sinks, it's that I couldn't make *those* sinks as they had to fit a very precise position in the client's countertop.
Nothing Blasts Through Depression Like Success
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010After working for a number of months, in vain, trying to create two matching cast glass sinks for a client, that would fit into her already made countertop, she canceled the project. I was having failure after failure with those darned sinks – getting the colors to match what she wanted, then trying to get the cast piece to drop through a mold to the right shape for her… Read the Full Story...
Unique Gift for Christmas
Saturday, October 31st, 2009It was only a matter of time before our skills producing the blown glass planets for our mobiles, orrery, sculptures and ornaments would join up with our new line of wine bottle stoppers.
We decided to couple the two and make Planetary Wine Bottle Stoppers. We figured the techniques would be pretty much identical, so it would be a breeze! Wrong! The various planetary glass… Read the Full Story...
