Posts Tagged "Mars"
Saturday, November 16th, 2013

It all started with Saturn. For years, before we started doing any glassblowing of our own, we had seen ornaments titled "Saturn" that were just a squished ball, usually in dark colors, with a very thick squished ring-blob around the center. Having a science background, I knew these were NOT Saturn! And it really cheesed me off.
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Tags: blow, blown, Earth, glass, jupiter, Mars, mercury, neptune, pipe, planets, pluto, Saturn, solar, system, uranus, Venus
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Sunday, August 5th, 2012

Recently, I was commissioned by a lady to create a canvas painting that depicted a moment for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover, Curiosity, when it was being dropped off on Mars by the newly developed Sky Crane deployment craft. The landing is to happen this evening.
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Tags: acrylic, art, brush, canvas, Curiosity, Laboratory, Mars, Martian, MSL, oil, painting, red, science, spacecraft
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009

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 it would be a breeze! Wrong! The various planetary glass
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Tags: blown glass, bottle, Christmas, Earth, gift, Mars, present, stopper, Venus, wine
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

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
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Tags: Earth, glass blowing, Mars, orrery, planets, Venus
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