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Brent, I was waiting for all the step by step tutorials with list of materials so I can re-produce what you do. I want to be a Mini Me version of you.
O.K. I guess I should quit being such a smart a.. well I should quit being so sarcastic is what I mean. Brent, thank you for sharing your creative process, your random thoughts and some of the random and intermediate steps of where you may go in glass.
I try very hard to stay out of the gallery because I want to keep some semblance of "me" in my beads. I know how easily affected I can be when I look at other's beads. This is a great thread to help inspire people to their own creativity and to possibly validate the creative process some people go through but are not confidant with.
I know when I returned from Glass Stock I returned with that inspiration and confidence. Not because of any one class or any one conversation....but because I was inspired and supported to follow my own passion in glass and not the market's idea of a glass bead and not anyone else's vision of right or wrong in glass. So I thank you Brent.
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I wasn't going to torch today, but I did anyway. Made a few beads that were totally just experimental. Used some Exotic powder and hopefully the metalic rainbow sheen stays... I added a few charcoal bricks to the kiln, to keep a reductive atmosphere. I just put them in a stainless tin, to keep the ash contained. We'll see in a few hours. They are almost ramped down. I'm hopeful!
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ooohh a few piecesof charcol I never thought of that Iwill have totry it nexttime I do reduction stuff
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ooohh a few piecesof charcol I never thought of that Iwill have totry it nexttime I do reduction stuff
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It burns up the oxy in the kiln and should help... we'll see.
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I'm going to electroform the donut... and the other pendant goes into the reject bowl... see that little bubble? Yeah, it's going into the bowl for that little bubble. I try really hard not to be like Monk, but I'm not always successful.
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So where do we go to sign up to play in your reject bowl?
Fascinating thread, I'm not a boro-girl, despite my efforts, but this is fun to read, thanks for sharing!
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Nikki, I will probably do a seconds category on my website and list 'em cheap. I just haven't decided if that's what i want to do with them. I have taken some to shows and done a misfit bowl... they sell really well. I think people enjoy digging.
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Brent I could just sit and look at your art all day long.................
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Hi Suzy,
Just so you know, I could sit and stare at your glass art all day as well. I love your work.
O.K. enough hijacking the thread......sorry Brent.
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I realize that from a technical perspective that unintentional bubbles in the encasing are "bad", but personally, I like them when they do show up -- they give a watery ethereal feeling of depth. I think they somehow add to the piece, rather than detract.
And I don't think I'm alone in this opinion.
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I too think a bubble now and then is cool and show the work to be made by a human,although no machine could ever make anything that Brent makes.
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Ok, so the charcoal didn't hold all of the sheen, so they are getting electroformed... More pics of that later.
This morning I played with Psyche and made two goddess beads and a bicone. They are ramping down. The rest of the day will be spent doing chores... bleh!
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Wow, that looks like a curled up millipede. coollll!!!
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Going into the reject bowl? Who's reject bowl?
My reject bowl is warm, welcoming, and full of real ugly beads so your's would just shine and feel nothing but special.
I so totally understand the Monk referrence. He lives in me too.
I just don't have the technical glass skills yet to let him fully develop and call certain beads "rejects" like some artists can.
BTW cool stuff you're makin' there Brent.
So the coffee's good eh?
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I'm going to electroform the donut... and the other pendant goes into the reject bowl... see that little bubble? Yeah, it's going into the bowl for that little bubble. I try really hard not to be like Monk, but I'm not always successful.
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Do Dogs have Eyelids?
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Hot sweet creamy coffee in hand... life is good!
Ok, so what's the point of this thread. Some of you are asking that I'm sure... I'm hoping it inspires people to look at their own work and build on what they are doing. Some folks are going to be inspired by the drips or what ever it is I'm doing... and they'll add that to their own work... and in doing so, they are going to miss the point. That's OK too. Whatever inspires people to move in a different direction is fine, but the purpose of this thread is to hopefully get people to examine their world and explore their own work in depth, without letting other artists distract them from the internal vision we all have.
I know when I look at other peoples work, it affects me. I try to skim through the show and tell here... I glance more often than not. I try to keep my focus on what I'm doing... what I want to be able to do... and let my inner vision come through.
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I am enjoying this thread so much! It took me a long while to allow myself to really begin to look at artist's beads and absorb what I was seeing because I was so afraid of absorbing too much, that when I finally began to reach a decent technical level that all I would have would be a headful of art that wasn't mine.
Then today I was driving and was on the road for a little over 6 hours. I listen to books on tape when the radio gets too repetitive and the current book happens to be 'I Claudius'. Among discussion of depraved Romans and Greeks (lol) there was a bit about Cerberus, the hound of hell. Just then, for Freudian reasons I don't quite understand, your drips popped into my mind. Then I began to think "How would I go about making a bead of Cerberus? How would you make the mouth foam?(I'm pretty sure that's where the drips linked into it...I always see Cerberus as foaming at the mouth) How big could I go? Do all the heads or just one? What kind of glass? Psyche. That would be cool! How would I do the eyes? Do dogs have eyelids?" I became so involved in my thoughts I had to shut off the book because I wasn't paying attention to it anymore.
So thank you, Mr. Smiley, for helping me to burn up the miles when I couldn't burn glass (aar, aar...OK, I know it was bad, I couldn't resist). But seriously, this chain of thought has me wanting to try about eleventy different things when I fire up the torch this weekend. Now I have to go see if my dachshund has eyelids.
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while you all are staring at eachothers art... let me steal them drops and run off..
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Not so much going on with me and the torch the last day or so... I'll catch up on pics here soon. Sorry guys, I've been busy doing other things. I did get to go to my supplier yesterday and fondle tons of glass.
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I would love to look at the glass. I know what you mean about going to a supplier and fondling glass. It is the most fun thing to do. Especially when you see a new color you want to possess.
Way to go and have more fun.
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Not a lot going on the last few days. I'm getting my electroforming rig set back up and I'll snap some pics of the pieces I'm going to ad copper to. They just need more cowbell!
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Brent,
When you do get your electro forming unit operational I can't wait to see some pics. I like copper and the patina look is wonderful. I may someday do some electro forming, maybe you could help me with the patina process.
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Brent love your drip droped beads.....are you sure you never dozed off in the middle of a bead...they are a neat approach thanks for the sharing of ideas....cheers seafire....
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you are such a tease Brent!!
(posted when i was still on page 1)
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Those are so incredible! Reminds me of the strata(? layers of earth) that you see when a mountain or hill is cut open. I drive through some areas in Texas with cutaways like that and I love to see the layers.
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Brent,
That doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell. More pics would be great as well.
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Holy cowbell! Just amazing. I love your work. I am going to have to come back several times today to ohh and ahh everything. Thanks for starting this thread. I really enjoy it.
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On the second pendent what color is the center?
Great stuff as always.
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