18th piece

This is the video footage I promised you yesterday. It is kind of hard to see all of the detail so I might upload a better quality video in the future. The video below has a nicer finished piece.

17th piece

some new pieces I made tonight. I'll update tomorrow with video footage.

16th piece

Here is footage of me spinning out a floppy bowl. I'll upload the actual piece when I get a chance.

Video process

15th piece

Somebody stopped in the glass lab again so I had them take some pictures. I uploaded a bunch so you could see some of the process. Down the road I'll upload some videos. I have not gotten this piece out of the annealer yet but I am pretty sure that this piece is going to look muddy. The orange is actually yellow once it gets to about 400 degrees.

14th piece

13th piece

Since my new camera is freakin' sweet I will be uploading some photography. In the future if I ever get back to my painting studio I may upload a more experimental photographic process.

12th Piece

I did some more of these pieces. It was a pretty successful night. Usually I am happy if one turns out nice. I will upload a video of me making these soon. The twists you see in the pieces are made while the pieces are spinning as fast as they can. The variables which I am working with have to be set up just right for these pieces to turn out successfully. The more I manipulate them after the twist is made the more likely I am to ruin the piece as the area with the twists are very fragile.

11th Piece

This is a letter opener I made last night. I made it for the mail-woman in our office. Jen (the mail-woman) complained about her letter opener being dull - so I made her one you can shave with.

10th Piece

Bubbles = poor mans color. I was purposely aggressive when shaping the glass before blowing it out. The aggressive blocking caused the glass to fold over on itself a couple of dozen times causing tiny air-bubbles where the little embers of the burnt wood were trapped. I think I need a macro lens for some cooler details - the image does not do the piece justice.

9th piece

This is one of the survivors from yesterday. I thought it might be neat to make use of the snow.

8th Piece

I was blowing glass today and and decided to bring my new camera. Luckily someone stopped in so I had them take some pics for me. This piece never made it to the annealer but I learned more because of it. This piece is one small gather of glass blown out extremely thin. Within my glass-work I have two bodies. Colored glass which I make to sell (minimal artistic integrity involved) and clear glass which exists in my body of work that will hopefully make me famous after I die.

7th piece

6th

I'll update this when I have time

5th piece

I made these pieces last night. I'll discuss them later.

made them at the cultural arts center.

Slacking

I am really slacking on the piece a day thing. I had some really important stuff to do on Sunday like watching the Steelers beat the Ravens!!!!!

Anyway this is an older piece - "moon-tide"

Process: A bucket of acrylic paint was thrown at a fluted canvas.

This piece is Acrylic on raw canvas which shows the paint's inertia once the projectile comes in contact with the surface. Two forces working with the placement of paint are its centrifugal force (splat force) and gravity. Since the canvas was on the wall during the application of the paint, the harder the paint is thrown at the canvas the less the marks are affected by gravity. This particular piece (particular viscosity of the paint) also shows gravity pulling the paint downward after its initial surface contact.

Approx. 15 ounces of paint was used in this particular piece of which 14.5 ounces did not make the surface. The extra paint was needed to make this particular mark.

got to edit this later

4th piece

In this piece you can see ink that has not dried yet. This is where the initial puddle of ink was placed as seen in the image two down from this one. This I believe is the piece made from that image below.

3rd piece

I made this yesterday before I left for work. Some of the work I do turns out the best when my mind is elsewhere - the reason why this works is most likely because of the structured process.

In this piece I did not use chopsticks to pick up the chain rather the chain was held in my hand then dipped into the ink and placed on the surface. I intend to post my first piece done (in 2004) with this process on a Sunday where instead of posting a new pieces I will revisit older pieces so you can get a better understanding of where I'm comming from.

Palindrome of the day: No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.

process prep

this is an in-between post. This is the chain and ink i used to create the painting from two days ago. I forget which piece this turned into but it was one of the ones I did on the first day. I skipped a day because I am a slacker. so I will upload two pieces today.