It’s that time of year when Pacific Art Glass has it’s winter shindig…The Spirit of 96. Patty Gray is in town teaching with her ladies and Ryan Staub is in doing roll up. Fabulous glass blowing! We were able to … Read More...
Time for Another Glass Snowflake Tutorial
First…Happy Thanksgiving! Next…time for another snowflake tutorial. This one is from Streuter Technologies, who makes some great adhesives for glass work. They’re using Honey Doo Zuper Glue and have a cool snowflake for you. Poetry, eh? I want to … Read More...
Transparent House in the Desert
Mirror counts as glass…just sayin’. I love this house. I found this over at the site This is Colossal. It’s a house out in Joshua Tree, CA that’s built with mirror and wood and it reflects the desert making … Read More...
Cooking and Glass Blowing…It’s All Part of the Show at Urban Glass
I sure do wish I could have been at Urban Glass to witness the group, Burnt Asphalt Family’s cooking and glass blowing party. For an audience of over 100 people the group demonstrated their glass blowing skills while preparing a … Read More...
More Snowflake Fun in Glass
Last post was about the molds by Colour de Verre for making snowflakes. Today we’re wandering over to Glass Art by Margot to see her technique for making snowflake ornaments. She’s fusing strips together rather than using frit and molds. … Read More...
New Snowflake Molds from Colour de Verre
As we know the holiday season is upon us and for those of us that make stuff it’s really time to make stuff. Colour de Verre has released this year’s edition of their snowflakes and they are sweet. You can … Read More...
Potato in Glass? Help Remove Bubbles…
A very exciting thing is happenng at my studio…we’re getting glass blowing equipment built so that we can offer classes as well as blow glass pretty much whenever we want. Yee ha!! So it’s got me wandering around the interwebs … Read More...
Alison Lowry – Glass and Textiles – Daily Art Muse
We can always count on Daily Art Muse to bring interesting art to our attention, and especially glass artists. Here they go again with English artist, Alison Lowry who likes to combine her love of textiles with her love of … Read More...
Elizabeth Johnson’s Glass Fruit – Daily Art Muse
Once again we get some good glass art from Daily Art Muse. Today we’ve got Elizabeth Johnson and her yummy glass berries and fruit. They look so real and very tasty. Elizabeth is based in New England and has … Read More...
Project #3 – Fused Glass Halloween Night Light
I’m looking for some more quick Halloween themed projects you still have time to do. This is a fused glass night light from Jubilee Creative. It uses mostly frit and some pre cut pieces such as the bat and … Read More...
Wine Bottle Chandelier – from Laura Makes
I know this isn’t a Halloween project but I have found myself flattening and cutting bottles quite a bit lately so this looks like an interesting project to try. I got this from Laura Make’s blog, which I found … Read More...
Stones and Glass and Books and Glass – Ramon Todo
Over at the site This is Colossal they shower the art of Ramon Todo. He combines stones and glass as well as books and glass. This is very cool. He’s based in Dusseldorf, Germany and sometimes uses pieces of the … Read More...
Colour de Verre Has a Fabulous Offer!
The guys over at Colour de Verre have a great offer over at their web site. If you spend at least $150 you can get a free square slumping mold. Very cool…you can pick up a few leaf molds and … Read More...
Recycling Old Bottles – The Daily Green
What to do with all of those bottles? This posts link deals with both glass and plastic but the glass stuff is pretty cool. The first is the flattening of bottles which I have been having a blast doing, and … Read More...
Halloween Project #2 – Glass Beads from Loribeads.com
I love making skull beads as well as ghosts and pumpkins for Halloween. I looked around the interwebs a bit to find all of you tutorials and there’s a bunch in one pdf by Lori Peterson of Loribeads.com. It … Read More...
Halloween Project #1 – Broken Glass Cupcakes
I love the projects over at Instructables. They’re rather subversive. That’s perfect for Halloween. When I saw the broken glass cupcakes I immediately thought, this was a fabulous Halloween sweet treat that would be a great party addition. They’re … Read More...
Sea Glass – Fake or Real…How to Tell
Sea glass always has appealed to me for jewelry designs. I’ve drilled it and wire wrapped it and used it in mosaics. I’ve also made it. Me and a rock tumbler. 8-12 hours with some medium grit and voila, sea … Read More...
New Maple Leaf Mold from Colour de Verre
One of my best sellers in my studio is the leaf plates I make with the Colour de Verre molds so to hear about a new one gives a great reason to write about it’s release. These molds they make … Read More...
Patty Gray at D&L
I took a class from Patty Gray many years ago at Pacific Art Glass. I learned so much from her. Techniques that I apply to my work everyday so whenever she’s around I recommend that you take the opportunity to … Read More...
Pablo Picasso Lost Mosaics
Master mosaic artist Lillian Sizemore writes an article for Mosaic Art Now’s web site about the lost mosaic art of Pablo Picasso. How cool is that? The mosaics are mid-century modern perfection and oh so wonderful to look at. Of … Read More...
