Close Encounter Marble

**PyroChixRock** · 03-07-2007, 07:21 PM

ok I see that too now. heh.

**gremlinglass** · 03-07-2007, 10:38 PM

I dug these out of storage this morning. They are from when I started messing around with the airbrush 12 years ago.
Roy 1995 space scene
Roy 1995 space scene
Roy 1995 space scene
Roy 1995 U.F.O. scene

Then one day some guys came around telling my wife and kids " Your dads been upsetting alot of people painting "space". Seems some pieces that I made for friends of mine were seen by the guy who has the "lockdown" on painting round spots on black canvis. Same day I came home they had airbrush my dog to look like a cat. All kind of crazy stuff man. So, I stopped painting space, moved, changed my artistic medium to glass, and Gremlin Glass was born. I can make a ball of glass in a marble that looks according to friends to "look just like a real friggen planet". I did it. I don't live to do it though. Those that know me and have worked with me know that I want to be challanged. So , I will once again change my medium to something a bit more challanging.
My first piece ever
Thanks for looking. Peace
Gremlin

**ACE** · 03-07-2007, 11:06 PM

they spray painted your dog????? to look like a cat???
how random.
thats effn halarious.

**Nokey** · 03-07-2007, 11:30 PM

looks like a middle finger and a thumb to me too...
....and Gremilin - nice marbles

**gremlinglass** · 03-08-2007, 02:04 AM

Thanks,
Yea, I had to git rid of that dog cause any dog that will sit there and let you airbrush it like a cat ain't worth two sh!ts to me. So I got this ONE I feed her hammers.
I e-mailed someone who knows fuming and the vailing technique and asked if he thought it was vailing that I was doing on those u.f.o.'s. Here's the answer I got back:
vailing simlar but different ,
I been told, it's silver added to the surface of a batch of soft glass and the glass gathered before it mixes in, this gives thin layers of color resembling fuming.

So there it is I was wrong. From now on I will simply state that it is a technique similar to vailing.

African Proverbs
"Don't look where you fell but where you slipped."
"Only a fool test the water with booth feet."
"The path is made by walking."

Ben Franklin
"Beware the hobby that eats"
"Well done is better than well said."

**jusbag** · 03-08-2007, 07:35 AM

Nice space toast! What kind of glass is that??? :P

**shudbworkin** · 03-08-2007, 08:53 AM

gremlin i see you air brushed those space scenes you posted 12 years ago and they look EXACTLY like your marbles,funny how someone can say you stole that vision because you put it on a marble,i love reading this stuff (but but but he and then he)reminds me of my kids

**ShttrdSpctrm** · 03-08-2007, 09:57 PM

that alien flickin ya off is awsome. is there a copyright on that or can i make one

**gremlinglass** · 03-09-2007, 04:53 AM

Thanks, aaahh not glass, bread. I really don't want to give up the name of the bread I use just yet cause some other toast artist are check'en out this thread. I'm in negotiations with a certain bread company to get their stale seconds. I've already said too much and please stop the P.M.'s asking how I did the stripes and the sun on there.
No, there is no copyright on the glass work I do. I encourage everyone to make the alien finger marble or any finger marble for that matter.
Before I post a link to my next piece. Let me start off by taking a moment to thank Hamm. An old friend of mine had an amazing collection of Hamms work that included 20 or more lil mini headie bubblers. They were 4 or more sections and looked inside out. Hamms work always inspired me when I was first starting out. Thanks Hamm.

Here's one of mine Thanks for looking.

**Meerkat** · 03-09-2007, 07:44 PM

I know many have had said roughly the same thing on this thread, but after reading it all, and reading what gateson had to say on that other forum, I just find it so bizzare that anyone would actually say that only one person in the world is allowed to make a space scene in a marble... that just blows me away.

I think the best way for an end to come to such a mentality is for a tutorial on how to do a space marble. If something like that appeared in The Flow or Glassline, then it would be more "official" that doing space marlbles was part of the public domain.

**mer** · 03-09-2007, 07:59 PM

that's a really good idea meerkat. if they offered the article to gateson first than he might feel as if he was getting the credit that he seems to feel that he deserves. if he's already made them for demo's he shouldn't have any problem with it. personally i would be glad to see a tut. from any of the artists that are making nice space scenes. other folks are going to make them anyway so whoever does the tut. has nothing to lose and might make some new friends.
peace, m

**gremlinglass** · 03-10-2007, 04:44 AM

You mean something like this.

**ShttrdSpctrm** · 03-10-2007, 08:48 AM

yup, just read THAT. pretty sweet

**PyroChixRock** · 03-10-2007, 10:40 AM

matt and i were thinking the same thing. someone needs to hop on it.

**Firekist** · 03-10-2007, 12:54 PM

your thumb still freaks me out gremlin.

toast artists beware! .. toast artists.. boy, your toaster must be really fubar if that's how they're comin out!

i love the alien(s). finger and thumb, peace, or "devil horns".. nice nice nice!!

um.. z---seth

**melt** · 03-10-2007, 03:46 PM

Dear Chris,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGeCpA_NJV8
this is a roadmap to creating your work. what are you going to do when someone uses your style to create some of their own work?

**PyroChixRock** · 03-10-2007, 04:01 PM

let's not fuel the fire. instead let's thank chris for sharing some of his knowledge. thanks chris! what a cool video. I dig the music, too.

**Meerkat** · 03-10-2007, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by mermonkey

that's a really good idea meerkat. if they offered the article to gateson first than he might feel as if he was getting the credit that he seems to feel that he deserves. if he's already made them for demo's he shouldn't have any problem with it. personally i would be glad to see a tut. from any of the artists that are making nice space scenes. other folks are going to make them anyway so whoever does the tut. has nothing to lose and might make some new friends.
peace, m

Just as a good example, in the last Glassline, Anakin shared how to make his famous matrix marble that he invented and spent a lot of time perfecting. I think that is incredibly cool that he has that mentality and openess and wanting to share with his fellow artists and the art community. He could easily have kept the matrix marble and his technique a secret.

**loydb** · 03-10-2007, 10:47 PM

I thought the same thing when I saw the matrix article. "Holy shit, I can't believe he's showing how to make those." Then I tried to make one. It looks like, ummm, kind a squished galaxy. Apparently, it's in the execution. Who'd a thunk it?

**melter skelter** · 03-11-2007, 10:18 PM

... very cool indeed of Anakin and Chris to share there babies with everyone. It only took for that issue Flow magazine to be out for one week before there were "Matrix" marbles on ebay directly competing with Brad's (Anakin). just an observation.