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Copper carb can be awesome! Mix it with a small amount of borax (as a fluxing agent) and distilled H2O. Sandwich between clear sheets and heat to a tack fuse. You will get bubbles, but they can be a nice sparkley design element. I've also mixed straight copper oxide with frit in mold castings. It do...

Woo-Hoo Bert. I can see where you're heading............... Nice texture!

Good luck Christyn with your new retail biz. There are several curves to anticipate as your open to the public business becomes known and as you develop clientelle. 1. Regular posted business hours are a must in the retail trade. Nothing worse than a disgruntled client who has driven several miles t...

I do a razor blade or fingernail test on the edge of the label to check what kind of adhsive has been used to affix the label. All the water soaking in the world won't take off the gum adhesives. To get this type of label off, I set my heat gun on low and carefully - moving quickly - warm the label,...

Hi ya' Judd......we're one hour north of St Louis on the Miss' river and a few more hours northerly-east from you. But still in the same mid-west geographic neck of the woods. Isn't it nice to have this internet glass community to take the edge off living and working alone as a glassie in the hinter...

I've sold various design incarnations of fused bolos since the late 80's. It's mostly the artsy crowd (creative types and their spouses) who buy these. For some reason I still haven't figured out, my cuff links are a hit with laywers. Sixty percent of my links sales have been to the men in the legal...

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." Gerry Spence "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and scienc...

Bert......is it the weight of the large glass expanse/loss of 3-d texturing that you're trying to combat? You may already be starting here, but what about cutting the design pattern out of fiber blanket? Layering it to form the 3-d base, then spraying or sprinkling on the sand mixture on top of the ...

Kelly...no hard feelings from this quarter. We've had some pretty dogged threads and explosive strong exchanges in the past on WG where people left the forum due to hard feelings. Much of this problem has been about intolerance. I apologize to you for applying the words narrow-minded in this situati...

But I don't think we should hold back from direct coarse brutal criticism, direct challenges, demands, even cheap shots, to artists. Yes to all the above, db....except the cheap shots. I'm of the nurture through constructive criticisim tribe. Honest - direct critique with tangible techniques/ideas ...

I especially like that it isn't full of "crap" like many that I've encountered... you don't use out-of-reach vocabulary our sound "way out there" just for the sake of sounding mysterious...normal people understand what you're saying and will feel more connected to you when they ...

Interesting article: http://www.painterskeys.com/letters.asp?let=031007 I especially like this quote: “It appears likely that low levels of latent inhibition and exceptional flexibility in thought might predispose to mental illness under some conditions and to creative accomplishment under others.â€

"I find that really thought-provoking. You have a situation where art patron 'demands' (I don't mean that in a negative sense) personal interaction and some sort of transactional acceptance/gratitude in the artistic experiece. I'm trying to visualize parallel situations. I've heard of situation...

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

Thanks.......no float involved in this one. BE all the way......... Here's the techniques Barbara asked about: Center black/dichro piece - three layers total of BE glass - black is clear sandwiched. Fired 3 times. Abrasive etched (or should I say carved) in between firings to take out the dratted bu...

An online resource - paperless mag - is http://www.artglassinfo.com.

Kiln-forming articles are included in each issue.

Ditto - post it, Brock! would luv to see it............ Mine gets a revamp at least a couple times a year. Another reason for having an artist statement is that many gallery directors expect to see your statement/resume and any other materials you may have showing your career progress. This is a par...

Its very frustrating. But then, as Charles Ray once said "Sculpture is hard. Sculpture is f*cking hard"). Hey John.....it looks like you have wrestled with the beast and come full circle. Just as I have. I"m pretty clear about the personal reasons I make stuff and it is mostly about ...

Hi Ellen.........glad you're back. You always add good perspective to our WG conversations. "Although I have made my living as an 'artist' for 30 years, I've never hung out with artists for the most part because I have felt that they are, for the most part, too impressed with themselves and the...

" Gale, I still believe that even if an artist hasn't "found" their voice, it's only because they don't recognize it - not because it isn't there. I didn't mean to imply that it was " some unobtainable magic cloak that falls out of trees" and lands on special folks!!" J...