I've been locked indoors for a few months and I figured what better way to celebrate the plague of 2020 by picking up a new hobby/addiction. I had an opportunity a long time ago to use a groupon for a local glassblowing studio and really enjoyed my time in the hotshop. I've been wanting to do more glassblowing ever since and I'm blessed to now be in a position where I was able to save up and drop some $$ on tools and glass to get started. With the canceling of all social events and obligations I've also found myself with some spare time to start practicing on the torch. I'm still slowly getting my workspace setup and still have a laundry list of things to figure out, but I'm forging forward on practicing while I wait for the last few things to fall into place.
I've been watching and reading lots of tutorials and trying to emulate the movements I see. This is probably not news to ya'll, but its a lot harder than it looks! I've been trying to work on the basics while throwing in a few techniques here or there. Right now, I'm trying to master forming spoons so I will have at least one dependable thing to build out of complicated prepwork. I made a couple of marbles for fun and was surprised at how much fun I had and want to add a few marble styles to my arsenal as well. I recently received a good mix of tubes, color rod, some fuming materials, frit, and other fancy materials to play with from MGA and am excited to burn through some oxy.
Early practice has been largely marbles and a few spoons but my lack of a kiln for a few more days is keeping me from getting too wild and crazy yet. I'll be capturing more stuff in this thread as a bit of a work log, hopefully watching me fail and learn will be entertaining for everyone else - it will definitely be a while before I will be posting the sort of jaw dropping pieces others post on here and I figure if you can't be impressed you might as well be entertained!
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