Does anyone else in here mess around with the glass crafting? My mom has a much bigger kiln than I do but we made a trip to bullseye in Portland today and bought some happiness. Not sure what I want to make yet but I’m super stoked!
@sammydog01 my mom does too so she gets really excited when she’s in town because their shop is about 20 minutes from my house. They had a sheet of special production out today that I may go back and buy just to frame and hang in my window. It was insanely beautiful. Coppery opaque iridescent earth tones in the light with pockets of transparent aqua/teal poking through like giant eyes. It was mesmerizing! If I put it in the murder shed I would never get anything done.
I’m planning to do some type of glass art soon. When going through some boxes that were in storage at my folks house, there was a lot of damaged depression glass that I want to turn into mosaics
@ironcheftoni@Kyeh
Being of French descendancy it meant a lot to me and I was really moved by the back story of the project as well as the scope and finesse of the finished pieces.
Used to do a lot of glass crafting when I lived close to my parents. Mom had a good sized studio and several decent supply shops in town.
Loved the material (and how weird it can get at high temps) so much I eventually got a degree in Glass Science, and now I develop glass recipies for a small manufacturer of technical/speciality glasses. Not as many straight-up art applications, but quite a few “happy accidents” that I’m saving for when I have space to set up a studio of my own someday.
@sillyheathen I’m not so great at the talking… but if you’re interested in the science, here’s a couple great free online resources to get started:
[Glass Science experiments for the “general public” using “low temperature” sugar glass][1]
[An archived online course on glass processing][2]. The latter is definitely more technical, so YMMV there, but it’s still worth checking out. Particularly Lecture #4 on color in glasses (taught by one of the best glass professors ever)
[1]: https://www.lehigh.edu/imi/scied/libraryglassedu.html
[2]: https://www.lehigh.edu/imi/teched/GlassProcess/GlassProcessingSpr2015.html
(edit: not sure what’s up with the links not formatting… but whatever. the link text will get you there)
@Turken this is fantastic! I actually used to do a lot of sugar work in my patisserie days. I still have a bulb with copper pipe in my cake kit for the blown sugar work. It’s fun but also potentially dangerous as molten sugar and skin aren’t the best of friends.
We were both just geeking out over the topics in the lectures so I truly can’t thank you enough. We now know what we’re doing today. We’re actually taking another trip to bullseye. I am pretty sure I need that huge sheet of copper and turquoise happiness in my life!
My mom and I don’t do stained glass but we’ll make mosaic birdhouses, rock, balls, etc. My mom has gotten really good and take a pic of a dog and and make it come to life through the glass.
Here’s the close up. I thought I posted this one. That’s why I say it’s so lifelike bc it looks exactly like like my moms old dog. He’s still alive but he got really sick and needed surgery and lots of extra care and my mom had two other really active dogs and no time bc of work to care for him so my sister raised the money for the surgery and my mom gave him to her friend who had the time.
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I don’t mess with it, but I sure do love art glass.
Well this is not the Christmas movie thread I thought it would be.
@yakkoTDI or is it?
/giphy die hard
@yakkoTDI it’s definitely my favorite Christmas movie!
I used to do stained glass and have a ton left over. It’s cool that you live close to Bullseye- I had to mail order my glass.
@sammydog01 my mom does too so she gets really excited when she’s in town because their shop is about 20 minutes from my house. They had a sheet of special production out today that I may go back and buy just to frame and hang in my window. It was insanely beautiful. Coppery opaque iridescent earth tones in the light with pockets of transparent aqua/teal poking through like giant eyes. It was mesmerizing! If I put it in the murder shed I would never get anything done.
I’m planning to do some type of glass art soon. When going through some boxes that were in storage at my folks house, there was a lot of damaged depression glass that I want to turn into mosaics
@ironcheftoni
that made me think of this… I had the chance to see the exhibit at the WWll museum in NOLA. It was fantastic!
https://www.interfaithpresidio.org/mcdonald-windows.html
@chienfou @ironcheftoni
That looks wonderful - I hope to see it sometime.
@ironcheftoni @Kyeh
Being of French descendancy it meant a lot to me and I was really moved by the back story of the project as well as the scope and finesse of the finished pieces.
@chienfou @ironcheftoni @Kyeh it’s truly a fantastic museum.
@ironcheftoni @Kyeh @sillyheathen
Sometimes I pour things into a glass artfully…
Pretty
Used to do a lot of glass crafting when I lived close to my parents. Mom had a good sized studio and several decent supply shops in town.
Loved the material (and how weird it can get at high temps) so much I eventually got a degree in Glass Science, and now I develop glass recipies for a small manufacturer of technical/speciality glasses. Not as many straight-up art applications, but quite a few “happy accidents” that I’m saving for when I have space to set up a studio of my own someday.
@Turken I have no words for this other than man I’d love to sit down and talk glass science!
@sillyheathen I’m not so great at the talking… but if you’re interested in the science, here’s a couple great free online resources to get started:
[Glass Science experiments for the “general public” using “low temperature” sugar glass][1]
[An archived online course on glass processing][2]. The latter is definitely more technical, so YMMV there, but it’s still worth checking out. Particularly Lecture #4 on color in glasses (taught by one of the best glass professors ever)
[1]: https://www.lehigh.edu/imi/scied/libraryglassedu.html
[2]: https://www.lehigh.edu/imi/teched/GlassProcess/GlassProcessingSpr2015.html
(edit: not sure what’s up with the links not formatting… but whatever. the link text will get you there)
@Turken this is fantastic! I actually used to do a lot of sugar work in my patisserie days. I still have a bulb with copper pipe in my cake kit for the blown sugar work. It’s fun but also potentially dangerous as molten sugar and skin aren’t the best of friends.
We were both just geeking out over the topics in the lectures so I truly can’t thank you enough. We now know what we’re doing today.
We’re actually taking another trip to bullseye. I am pretty sure I need that huge sheet of copper and turquoise happiness in my life!
My mom and I don’t do stained glass but we’ll make mosaic birdhouses, rock, balls, etc. My mom has gotten really good and take a pic of a dog and and make it come to life through the glass.
@Star2236 pics? I would love to see your/your moms work ☺
@Star2236 @tinamarie1974 Me too! I love seeing other people’s works of art!
@sillyheathen @tinamarie1974
@sillyheathen @tinamarie1974 ![][1]
Here are two that my mom did
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@sillyheathen @Star2236 @tinamarie1974
That’s beautiful - I love the way she used the glass pattern to create the texture of the dog’s fur!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @tinamarie1974 ![][1]
Here’s the close up. I thought I posted this one. That’s why I say it’s so lifelike bc it looks exactly like like my moms old dog. He’s still alive but he got really sick and needed surgery and lots of extra care and my mom had two other really active dogs and no time bc of work to care for him so my sister raised the money for the surgery and my mom gave him to her friend who had the time.
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@Kyeh @sillyheathen @Star2236 those are beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing
@Kyeh @Star2236 @tinamarie1974 those are fantastic! Really beautiful work!
If you ever get East - you HAVE to drop into the Corning Museum of Glass
You can watch them work, do demos, and take classes
They even have glass artists that make things you design:
If you are ever in Vancouver - see if the aquarium still has a rockfish with a glass eye made by Corning
