Lampworking Projects

On Thursday night B goes to the Toledo Glass Pavillion to play with a torch. Sounds funny doesn't it? But he is continuing to hone his skills in lampworking. So far this semester he has learned many new techniques, including working with a different kind of glass - Borosilicate glass, which is a hard glass (B's preferred media at this point). Right now he is learning to make icicles, which come home in many sizes and will hang beautifully on our Christmas tree. He has also learned to work with not only rods (which is how he started learning), but also has been working with tubes. Plus he's made some wonderful presents for family and friends. And all of this is before taking a special techniques workshop that will just focus on ornaments, which happens the first week of December.

first step, making the candy cane - second step (still to be learned) sand blasting

and naturally, for B, no creation session is complete if it doesn't involve a fish

or a variety of fish