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 untouched.
Since I was getting ready for a space conference, I decided to… Read the Full Story...
Many of the wine stoppers are now online on GlassSculpture.org. I have still about 30 of the “Classical” style to polish and then photograph, but there are some real beauties already up. It seemed to take longer to… Read the Full Story...
OK. How much fun are these???? This one is one of my favorites today. It’s on the larger side, nearly 2 1/2 inches wide, with blues, creams and some whispies of purple floating through. It’s just outright gorgeous under a light or in the sun. Wow!
I threw my shoulder out this past week. I have pulled muscles before, but this was just excruciating. Still not quite sure what exactly I did, but wow was it sore! I couldn’t raise my arm, nor turn my head and my entire right side was aching with a splitting axe going through my right eyeball.
So, I was on codeine (and now vicodin!) for this past week. The… Read the Full Story...
This beautiful green marble now has a home on the east coast. The setting is gorgeous letting the sun come in. We consciously made the choice to have our marbles be translucent, transparent in places rather than solid opaque, so that you could see through to the other side to get more intricate things going on in each, plus the light being able to shine through is just spectacular. I’m so happy this one has such a nice home with such loving people. It’s owned by an amazing artist who has quite a history of doing incredible work – Roy Scarfo and his wife, Carol. Read the Full Story...
I‘ve worked in other mediums (media?) but have found a strange quirk in myself that is really irritating – I fiddle. Yes, I play the violin, but I also just keep nerdling on things forever. When I work in traditional oils, I would keep going in and redoing things until all I had was just a mess. When I started reverse painting on glass, I was not able to… Read the Full Story...
I don’t get to blow glass very often, so when I do, it’s a real treat.
But wait, if I like it so much, why don’t I do it more often? Well, if I ONLY blew glass, I’d do it every day (or most days…). BJ and I are very diversified though. Along with the glass, we paint, build sculptures (out of the glass we blow), build furniture, websites… Read the Full Story...
This is a wonderful paperweight. It’s 2 inches across and is really fun with the little bubbles inside. It was on ebay for just ridiculously inexpensive.
There is also this one which is very pretty with the deep gold and the ivory mixing… Read the Full Story...
This is a fantastic marble, and it was for sale on ebay.
It’s been to cold to blow glass the past week. Our hotshop is in a covered surrounded deck, so it’s mostly fine — protected from the rain, wind and can vent through a skylight when it gets too hot, but it doesn’t protect enough… Read the Full Story...
This small marble has some great stuff going on in it. I put on a general salmon color over the whole interior, but then I mixed on some deep ruby and let that swirl around the salmon. I then added small opal white frit over the ruby. While it was all hot and gooey, I grabbed sections… Read the Full Story...
I'm a professional artist, working mostly in glass for the space industry. My partner and I create some of the most incredible glass sculptures having to do with rockets, planets, galaxies... It's an extremely fun career!
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