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Glassmaking: Morganica (Cynthia Morgan) demonstrates the technical and creative challenges of making art using glass through fused glass, coldworking, and experimentation. Primarily focused on the casting of glass, including pate de verre and reservoir casting, she also discusses less-used kinformed glass techniques such as tack-fusing, kilncarving, and pattern-bar development.

15 10, 2006

Watercolors

2017-10-07T18:12:02-07:00

Took a casting class and in the course of it one of the other students, a gifted metal and jewelry-maker named Carla Fox, started experimenting with tinted frits. When I saw the results I was hooked. Frit tinting is essentially mixing small amounts of deeply colored glass powder (normally opal, i.e., opaque, glass) with crushed clear or neutral-colored base glass. [...]

Watercolors2017-10-07T18:12:02-07:00
15 10, 2006

Five-finger exercise

2016-05-15T13:18:21-07:00

Just got out of Kirstie Rea's class, where we discussed how the medium influences the art, i.e., since glass has transparency, transparency becomes a significant part of the work. It's one of those "duh" statements that seem obvious on the face of it, but have a much deeper meaning when you think on it awhile. Nowhere, however, did we discuss [...]

Five-finger exercise2016-05-15T13:18:21-07:00
13 10, 2006

Kirstie Rea’s “What Do We Make of Glass?” class

2016-05-15T13:07:18-07:00

Just finished taking this class from Australian glass artist Kirstie Rea, had some very interesting exercises that made me think. Wasn't really taking it for the coldworking opportunities--which were legion--but greatly enjoyed the opportunity to share space with some good glass artists.

Kirstie Rea’s “What Do We Make of Glass?” class2016-05-15T13:07:18-07:00
15 09, 2006

Mess. Mess. Mess.

2015-04-11T17:35:06-07:00

I work with some noxious substances--it's just what you do when you cast glass--and I take every precaution to (a) not incorporate the stuff into my body (b) not wind up wearing it and ruining yet another outfit, and (c) not get it all over everything so I don't have to spend hours getting it off the kitchen counter or [...]

Mess. Mess. Mess.2015-04-11T17:35:06-07:00
8 08, 2006

Rubber cement is a solvent (duh)

2016-05-14T22:25:50-07:00

Apparently the way you get rubber cement is by dissolving rubber in a solvent. Paint this concoction on something, and you get a permanently sticky bond with...whatever. (Want details? Check out the e-Encyclopedia entry.) This is relevant because the logical extension of having a solvent in rubber cement somehow escaped me. I wanted to layer things onto an organically curved, [...]

Rubber cement is a solvent (duh)2016-05-14T22:25:50-07:00
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