The Art of Joy Alyssa Day » sculpture http://joysblog.glassnebula.com Art and life by and about Joy Alyssa Day of Spherical Magic Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:27:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Just like Chihuly http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/just-like-chihuly/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/just-like-chihuly/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:30:37 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1111 Deep Sea Anemone Table

It'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 [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/just-like-chihuly/feed/ 1 Sink Successes http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/sink-successes/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/sink-successes/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:42:11 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=1092 Yellow Sun Bowl

I 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 [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/sink-successes/feed/ 0 Nothing Blasts Through Depression Like Success http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/nothing-blasts-through-depression-like-success/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/nothing-blasts-through-depression-like-success/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:02:05 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=961 13 Inch Fused Glass Galaxy Platter - Oblique

After 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 [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/nothing-blasts-through-depression-like-success/feed/ 2 Unique Gift for Christmas http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/unique-gift-for-christmas/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/unique-gift-for-christmas/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:07:39 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=454 Dense Clouds Earth WineStopper

It 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 [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/unique-gift-for-christmas/feed/ 1 New Jewelry Website is UP! http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/new-jewelry-website-is-up/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/new-jewelry-website-is-up/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:15:21 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=274 nautilus2-64

The new jewelry line came about fairly rapidly, but the website for them took a little longer (isn't that always the case?). The site is now LIVE! - http://glasssculpture.org/artglass/jewelry/ We decided to add it to our Glass Sculpture site, since the technique doesn't match up with my Reverse Glass painting, nor does it follow the [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/new-jewelry-website-is-up/feed/ 1 Micro Planets http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/micro-planets/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/micro-planets/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:44:36 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://glassnebula.spherical.org/?p=183 earth-moon-sq-100

As we continue our orrery project, it is time to blow the glass planets. As the whole piece is only 6 feet in diameter, that means we have less than 3 feet to fit in 8 planets (they didn't want Pluto).  To get the planets to fit, be relative scale (impossible to be "actual" scale), [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/micro-planets/feed/ 5 My First Little Gear http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/my-first-little-gear/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/my-first-little-gear/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 19:04:49 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/?p=173 geartemplateweb

I made my own gear yesterday!!  I'm so proud of it I could just burst. A little background - I'm building on orrery (model of the solar system) for the astronomy department of a college in San Mateo, CA.  We've built similar things, but of course, every new project requires new skills and stuff that [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/my-first-little-gear/feed/ 6 Blown Glass Rocket Ship Awards http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/blown-glass-rocketship-awards/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/blown-glass-rocketship-awards/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:40:00 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://glassnebula.spherical.org/blown-glass-rocketship-awards/ red-rocket-thumb

While we were at the National Space Symposium, a next door exhibitor asked if we could put together some small awards for students. The catch was he didn't have much time. I came back to the studio and looked around for something that I had already in stock that would do well as awards, but [...]
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I wanted to experiment with my sandblasting and deep carving on glass. My cast glass pieces are usually in the 3/8-1/2 inch thick range, with the colors swirling through the entire depth of the piece. This would make for some great carving, as some of the colors would be opened up, while others would remain [...]
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]]> http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/glass/deep-carving-in-glass/feed/ 1 Next for the Orrery Project http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/next-for-the-orrery-project/ http://joysblog.glassnebula.com/art/sculpture/next-for-the-orrery-project/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:37:00 +0000 Joy Alyssa Day http://glassnebula.spherical.org/next-for-the-orrery-project/ rocket-thumb

Previous posts have focused on the rocket that is the center column for our orrery. The one pictured here doesn't have the bottom section with the fins, but our new one does. Now that the rocket has been carved and the holes bored into it to accept the drive tubes, it can be put aside [...]
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