Glassblowing

[420MissHighTimes420]

This is so cool! I have been dying to study glass blowing since I was a teenager. I've done stained glass for many years, which doesn't involve making glass, just cutting it and sectioning it together. And I've taken pottery and sculpting. I really need to try glass-blowing one of these days. I don't know that it's even offered here in Dallas. If it is, I haven't yet found out where.

420MissHighTimes420, have you ever seen the work of Dale Chihuly? He's an absolutely incredible glass artist from Seattle. Only has vision in one eye and so relies on his gaffer more than other artists. Still, he's incredibly gifted. To see a Chihuly exhibit is like going to heaven. I aspire to own a Chihuly piece, just a tiny one, someday. That's so awesome that you're learning that art, 420Miss!

i hadnt seen any of his pieces before but i just checked out his website, and wow i aspire to own one of his pieces they were stunning! !

and i bet they have a studio in dallas you should look into it, its really a wonderful artform , and way different from anything ive ever done b4.

i hope i can get good at it.

[stinkyattic]

have you ever seen the work of Dale Chihuly? He's an absolutely incredible glass artist from Seattle.

I've seen his work; there was a fabulous article about him in Smithsonian magazine some years back.

This guy is our local glass artist, Josh Simpson. His studio is in downtown Shelburne Falls and open to the public. He makes some incredible pieces.

the Home of Josh Simpson Contemporary Glass

[420MissHighTimes420]

and mad sativa thanks for the advice, im not sure if im using a element or tube??? whats that? lol i dont no about all that stuff yet.

You should post some of the stuff you've made!

[420MissHighTimes420]

I've seen his work; there was a fabulous article about him in Smithsonian magazine some years back.

This guy is our local glass artist, Josh Simpson. His studio is in downtown Shelburne Falls and open to the public. He makes some incredible pieces.

the Home of Josh Simpson Contemporary Glass

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

edit: those portals are amazing

[birdgirl73]

Fabulous, Stinky! I loved reading about Josh and seeing his work. He's incredible, too.

Well, this changes everything. I now aspire to have a large room in my house, ideally a white marble room with perfectly lit display stands and natural light, where I have on display my own personal collection of the work of the world's finest glass artists. In one corner will be three of the prettiest Chihuly "flowers", and I might have a big suspension piece of his hanging in the middle. I'll have a couple of Josh Simpson planets. Two pieces, perhaps, from the best glass artisan on Murano Island. I'll add to the collection gradually as I travel and get more glass exposure. When I die, I'll will it to some deserving museum or possibly to Cannabis.com with the stipulation that it will loan it out to collections and museums all over the world. Stoners far and wide will get first consideration for tickets and viewing times.

Art in general, and glass in specific, make me dream big dreams. . . .

[stinkyattic]

All right Birdie, if that's how yer gonna be about it...
Harvard Gazette: Care for Glass Flowers branches out
IMHO this is THE most spectacular collection in any museum I have ever been to. The fruit is so delicate and realistic, showing diseases and pests in perfectly executed GLASS.
You gotta come up to the Bean.

[GraziLovesMary]

WTF.... I wanna blow glass too!! Ive wanted to know how to blow glass ever since I was 4 and first went to the Maryland Rennaissance Festival.

another thing Im gonna miss this year.. that was gonna be my birthday tradition too... goin to the Festival every year... the only thing I actually ever want to do to celebrate my birthday. Other than that, Ill forget my own birthday. And one year when my mom was out of town for my birthday, my dad and I BOTH forgot my... 13th birthday I think. Like 4 days later I saw some binoculars he had just bought and I asked him what they were and he said "... ohh.... happy birthday son."

I said "shit... did that already pass??"

[birdgirl73]

All right Birdie, if that's how yer gonna be about it...
Harvard Gazette: Care for Glass Flowers branches out
IMHO this is THE most spectacular collection in any museum I have ever been to. The fruit is so delicate and realistic, showing diseases and pests in perfectly executed GLASS.
You gotta come up to the Bean.

I do have to come to Beantown. I really need to live there, to be honest. I think I'd love that whole community. Everything except the winters, that is. Maybe I'll put Massachusetts down as one of my choices for a residency match when that time arrives.

I had no idea there existed the types of glass flowers in that Harvard Gazette article. I was referring to Chihuly's big bowl-shaped "flowers" because I had no other term to refer to them by. Now I wonder if he has done delicate, scientifically intricate work like that. I rather doubt it, but who knows? I'd give my right coronary artery to watch someone make botanical lookalikes out of glass. Just amazing! I can already tell I need a large, fruiting glass-botanic specimen climbing a trellis in my marble "pretties" room. Thanks to you, this just gets better and better!

[stinkyattic]

The methods by which those botanical flower and fruit specimens were made was a closely-guarded secret and is now lost.

As for a residency, Boston is a charming city chock-full of medical institutions... I volunteer to be your tour guide, and I'll betcha our own dear Demeter would happily do the same!

[420MissHighTimes420]

I do have to come to Beantown. I really need to live there, to be honest. I think I'd love that whole community. Everything except the winters, that is. Maybe I'll put Massachusetts down as one of my choices for a residency match when that time arrives.

I had no idea there existed the types of glass flowers in that Harvard Gazette article. I was referring to Chihuly's big bowl-shaped "flowers" because I had no other term to refer to them by. Now I wonder if he has done delicate, scientifically intricate work like that. I rather doubt it, but who knows? I'd give my right coronary artery to watch someone make botanical lookalikes out of glass. Just amazing! I can already tell I need a large, fruiting glass-botanic specimen climbing a trellis in my marble "pretties" room. Thanks to you, this just gets better and better!

I love Boston, last summer I stayed there for a month and I fell in love with the city. Its very clean and pretty. I went to that Harvard musem and I saw all of those beautiful glass flowers. Tehy looked so real it was beautiful. I was in awe it was made out of glas! now after having a hard time making something as simple as a cup I am even more amazing by them.