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Ellen

Wow..........and o-o-o-o wow! How many years has it taken you to get to this fine place with your technique and work?

a fan

That's beautiful.

Thanks Gale. I guess about 7 or 8 years of stolen days from the architectural work. I'm particularly pleased with this one. 'Lizard with Baby Blue Eyes' (an early spring bloomer in my yard).

e

THAT is so beautiful.... Alice De

Ellen, Wonderful. I was at an upscale glass retail store and saw a Daum small(about 4") cast bowl that I drooled over and I think your piece is every bit as beautiful and well cast as that piece. Show us more when you can. Ann Demko

Ellen - whenever I start to feel like I'm any good at this stuff yours is one of the sites I go to for a motivational kick to keep working to get better.

Truly exceptional work. Thanks for posting.

- Paul

Thank you everybody (blush). There are some other new pieces posted on my web site in the 'recent work' gallery.

e

Just amazing. I can't imagine being able to create anything so beautiful....

Ellen:
Simply gorgeous. Elegant, soft, beautiful color. You're such an inspiration! I just received the 1992 Daum book by Bacri. Their pate-de-verre pieces are right up there with yours.
Nikki

Ellen

Nice work. How much cold working was necessary to get it to that state?

Is is difficult to keep the different colors from bleeding in to the wrong spaces?

I plan to soon get back in to the casting thing.

We cast this piece upside down in a one piece mold. It cast really well so it didn't take a lot of finish work topside. I think I went over it pretty thoroughly with the fine craytex bullets after using a small fine diamond bit to remove any rough spots. Then used the composite upright wet wheel to buff as much of it as I could get it to touch. The bottom however, took more work. I had about 1/2" of 'funnel' to grind off and then reshape and round the bottom so that only a spot as big as a quarter actually touches the table. I used a small flat lap with a 70 diamond pad and then the upright fine diamond wheel before going over it with my off-hand diamond bit and then the craytex bullets and finally the wet composite upright.

It can be difficult to keep the colors in place. Not so much on one of these, but the bowls because there are more dynamics at play. The main problem with these is volume of color in the right spot and it has to be piled up vertically in the shape of the thing it is filling. Not enough volume and the color is only on the surface with whatever is behind it filling it up.

E

WOW!! Truly wonderful work!! WOW!!
I can see someone actually parting with $$money$$ to buy this (if you ever dare to sell it). Some of the pieces of PDV I've seen locally (in SF) are more like "gets an 'A' for effort, but an 'F-' for quality".
This piece gets 'A's all around.
Love the way you've managed to keep the green of the lizard not "leaking" into the stone/egg, and the mixing of the "green-->blue" transition for the flowers are FANTASTIC!!
Please do post details of this piece if you feel like it - I for sure could use a few pointers (lots actually), and I'm sure others might find it informative as well.
Congrats on the piece - hope you opened a good botle of wine tyo celebrate this piece!

Krishnan

GOREOUS... makes me feel like I gotta stroke the critter's back...
Question: fine craytex bullets? never heard of this.

Thanks for sharing the pix....
Barbara

Thanks all.

Barbara...they are grit impregnated rubber polishing bullets that screw onto small mandrels for use with an off-hand rotary grinder or dremel tool. I get them at the jeweler's supply.

e

ellen abbott wrote:
Barbara...they are grit impregnated rubber polishing bullets..
e

Hmmm. sounds useful. can you purchase the bullets w/ silicon carbide grits? Thanks for the tip.
Barbara

Yes. That is what the abrasive is, silicon carbide. Craytex is the brand name I purchase and they come in different grits...coarse to extra fine...and shapes but I have found the bullets to most useful. Prowl around your local jewelers supply, you might find all manner of useful things.

e

ellen abbott wrote: Prowl around your local jewelers supply, you might find all manner of useful things.

e

Thanks... I'll be adding jewelers supply joints to my hunt&gather rounds...
Barbara

PDXBarbara (Bader) wrote:

ellen abbott wrote: Prowl around your local jewelers supply, you might find all manner of useful things.

e

Thanks... I'll be adding jewelers supply joints to my hunt&gather rounds...
Barbara

Barb, You might want to check out Ed's House Of Gems out on Sandy and
Handley's rock shop in Vancouver Wa.
I think that they both carry craytex. stuff.

Jim

jim simmons wrote:
Barb, You might want to check out Ed's House Of Gems out on Sandy and
Handley's rock shop in Vancouver Wa.
I think that they both carry craytex. stuff.

Jim

Thanks, Jim. I stop by Ed's periodically... but Handley's is new to me.

See ya tonight.
BB