Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Loving 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 atmosphere.
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Tags: blowing, carve, carving, cats, cutting, etching, glass, glassblowing, moon, planet, ring, Saturn, stained glass, Sun
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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 they had to fit a very precise position in the client's countertop.
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Tags: bowl, fused glass, mold, sink, slump, Sun, vessel
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