Kat
02-19-2015, 10:41 AM
Jeez, I can't believe it has been a couple years since I've shared pics with all of you glass magicians of the interwebs.
We've only been doing one art festival a year and taking a steady stream of custom orders from family and friends. Thankfully this should be the last year I have to juggle factory work with working glass, so I'm somewhere between really excited and really nervous. But loving every minute of it.
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This guy was an experiment, I've been itching to mix clay and glass specifically to make heads. I used a cheap air drying clay, free formed the head then added the glass eyes and teeth. Finished it off with some paint and sealer.
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This was another project I found myself just going along with. The wood is from an ash tree that died on my property, it was killed by the emerald ash borer as did all of its fellow ash trees in my region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer. I saw the form of the wood while we were organizing tree parts and decided it needed to be used. The markings in the wood are the trails the ash borer larvae leave behind as they eat away all the tree meat under the bark. Which eventually kills the tree, but leaves really neat looking hard wood to work with.
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Thanks for taking a look! Cheers!
We've only been doing one art festival a year and taking a steady stream of custom orders from family and friends. Thankfully this should be the last year I have to juggle factory work with working glass, so I'm somewhere between really excited and really nervous. But loving every minute of it.
71910719267192771928719297193071931719327192571924 71923719117191271913719147191571916719177191871919 71920719217192271938
This guy was an experiment, I've been itching to mix clay and glass specifically to make heads. I used a cheap air drying clay, free formed the head then added the glass eyes and teeth. Finished it off with some paint and sealer.
719337193471935
This was another project I found myself just going along with. The wood is from an ash tree that died on my property, it was killed by the emerald ash borer as did all of its fellow ash trees in my region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer. I saw the form of the wood while we were organizing tree parts and decided it needed to be used. The markings in the wood are the trails the ash borer larvae leave behind as they eat away all the tree meat under the bark. Which eventually kills the tree, but leaves really neat looking hard wood to work with.
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Thanks for taking a look! Cheers!