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As some of you know about a year ago this subject was brought up in reference to someone's work, NOT someone on the board but someone claiming to be very skilled and charging a lot of money for work that a number of us thought was substandard in skill. The response to this subject was quite surpris...

This topic is always a hot topic, but there is alway fresh data to look at 8) so it is also always new... A good topic never resolves (that's the definition)... There are people who teach styles - Bob Leatherbarrow's wafer's; Brock's trays; Avery's micas; Patty's combed and thick pieces; the high fi...

This topic is always a hot topic, but there is alway fresh data to look at 8) so it is also always new... A good topic never resolves (that's the definition)... There are people who teach styles - Bob Leatherbarrow's wafer's; Brock's trays; Avery's micas; Patty's combed and thick pieces; the high fi...

I promise not to dance on the chair again Sheesh. Too many ideas to respond to in one read! 1) If the double d's aren't chair dancing, I'm not going... comm'on Diane and Donna... the swimsuit photos may have been great, but the in person banter can't be beat... And if Lisa is going to dance too, we...

I'm already getting applications for Fall shows and wondering if I will be available for the show... It seems early, but it's not really for planning shows and vacation time and the like. Brad and Jody, I hope you are planning a new WGW and that this all works out to support you so that an annual co...

Hey Irene, but why don't you tell them how cool it REALLY was?? Seriously, Patty is a wonderul, enthusiastic, knowledgable, caring and sharing teacher, Sandra Toomey who TA'ed for Patty is one of the most organized, low key, competent, efficient mind readers I have ever come across, Becky is more th...

Always go for the highest quality you can afford... But, that said... I own a hf Chigago Electic Tile Saw that I used to tile our last house - about 1500 sq ft of tile, that I have loaned out to at least 5 different friends for kitchen and bath jobs and that I and a firend both use to cut glass with...

Way to go Becky!!!

<Imagine sounds of cheering throngs, hat throwing masses... .. idolizing hoards... >

Publicity. The stuff careers are launched/sustained/nurtured from.

Good for you.

Linda

P.S. Wanna send some pics of the work you're going to have at the show?

Other fields use the same words... If I look at architectural or interior design magazines, I like and have affinity with either Craftsman or 'Contemporary' looks - and in those venues, that means not necessarily geometric, but not frilly or ornate. Why? I don't know. 'Traditional' in interior desig...

It seems like you may be going too hot? The glass will 'fall' over the fiber paper and seal with the glass on the bottom at a lower temperature, but at that hot, it's been my experience that it wants to pull in and it does not form a nice channel, but a clamshell effect on either side of the fiber p...

I think that most of the cracks I have been confused about in my glass (i.e. the ones where I can't find an obvious, I-can't-believe-I-did-that reason) seem to come from a sticking problem. In my case, I am sure it is my kiln goddess's way of chastising me for laziness - which I definitely have a pr...

It's great Paul! I think the frame does add to it. I'm not exactly sure about the oak picture frame look... I'm not sure if something more organic would have added or would have taken attention from the glass - but maybe something less mitred- more pondlike...? But maybe not. I have a friend that ha...

Kitty - beautiful plate! Re viewing photo... I get no image in the posting when I view this thread from my ancient Mac iBook at home, using Camino 0.7.0, but it shows up at work on my fairly new PC using the latest Internet Explorer. Don't know if it's a browser thing or a Mac thing or an ancient co...

I’ve been exploring glass painting, fusing and slumping for several years now in my spare time using an old ceramic kiln and a pyrometer. Ann, Can you keep your ceramic kiln also? If you can, you can still use it for drops and things that might take depth while you use your new kiln for raking an...

If you're just looking for the LOOK of sea glass (as opposed to actually having a bunch you are trying to figure out how to use...) you can tumble compatible glass and it gets the same look. (I did this with a nice batch of puddle I had to chisel off my kiln self once. :oops: . Actually, I ended up ...

Sure. Check the archives. Lots of us include various wires/pieces of various metals in our work. Either for effect or for hanging it later or whatever? Someone might be able to share when a little bit is too much? What is your plan? Just a hanging wire? Inclusions are funny - you can put a fair amou...

:( but now I can't figure out how to attach it and get it ready electrically to attach it to the wall. ... I feel like I bought this mold, and won't be able to use it because of the electrical stuff. What I was planning to do was take a store bought light (which can be pretty cheap if you buy somet...

My two cents (take it for what it’s worth). ...And colored glass, with all those retina-popping photons zipping around and begging to seduce your visual cortex, is the most dangerous material of all. It should be treated in the same manner that Australian aborigines treat, say, ochre. It is a power...

What I want to know from those of you like Linda, Bert, Sara, Monica etc. is, do you feel then that there are absolutely no parameters or standards by which a work of art can be assessed beyond personal taste? Is all work somewhere in the range of good to great? Doesn't it make a difference how som...

I don't know. I may be wrong about this. But it seems to me that everyone's work will go through a variety of stages over time. Beginning work will be less technically perfect than work after a few years, and a few years after that it will be yet either more technically perfect or more daring (or st...