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 techniques used in the art glass marbles & paperweights.
We’re… Read the Full Story...
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), and not clunk into each other, the inner planets need to be fairly… Read the Full Story...
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 we’ve never done before. For this piece, called… Read the Full Story...
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 I only had two or three of each appropriate thingie, and he needed 5… Read the Full Story...
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...
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 for a bit and we move on to the next section – The… Read the Full Story...
Steampunk Rocket with Fins in Cherry Wood
The fins are finished! They were cut from solid cherry boards with my radial arm saw and trimmed up with my bandsaw. The blade on that could use some… Read the Full Story...
It’s finally stopped storming, so I can continue to work on building my rocket ship today. Why does it matter if it’s storming? Some of my equipment (lathe, drill press among other stuff) is out on a covered deck. The covers keep them protected when it rains, but I’m not too good with my hands when it’s cold and wet. I have very low blood pressure, so if my… Read the Full Story...
I got the rocket carved for the Orrery that we’re making!!!! Yay!!! It was cold though, but not raining. You can see me all bundled up. I actually have three shirts on and two pairs of sweatpants, and gloves. I’m coated with sawdust, as is everything else. It gets in my hair, up my nose and under my contacts, but it’s actually a lot of fun to get… 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...
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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