Want to try making glass? Your opportunity approaches!
Have you been following my glass posts? Do you want to give it a shot? Your chance is coming up!
In a week and a half, on Sunday 12/4, I have arranged for a bench and an instructor at my glass studio, to take you through the process of making paperweights to take home and enjoy, or to give as gifts. It's a pay-per-piece event, $50 per item that you make to take home. You get to take the piece through the entire process with guidance and help from the instructor, and you get to do as much as you are comfortable doing - and at any point, the instructor can step in and become your hands if you decide that you would be more comfortable as the art director than as the artist :-)
Materials will be provided by the studio: tools, colored and clear glass, work space, furnace, gloryhole, annealer, all of these will be there to use with instruction on how to do so.
I have been going to the studio regularly, making pieces that I am itching to give to my family as holiday gifts. If you have any hands-on make-stuff inclination, this is an AWESOME thing to try! The first two pieces I made were paperweights like you will make here. The first one was my Mothers' Day gift to my mom, the second sits on my desk at work and I smile every day when I look at it.
I need to know who will be there, so if this is interesting to you, reply so I can put you on the list. (If I don't get enough people I'm going to have to cancel the event, and I really don't want that to happen.) So, come to my glass studio, make a piece or two, and have an exciting story to tell about it when you show it to everyone!
The glass studio, DC Glassworks is just south of College Park, MD.
To give you an idea of what I made my first visit or two to the glass studio:
And this last photo is a link to a few more photos of each of the five pieces in it:
This will be reposted in a couple days.
In a week and a half, on Sunday 12/4, I have arranged for a bench and an instructor at my glass studio, to take you through the process of making paperweights to take home and enjoy, or to give as gifts. It's a pay-per-piece event, $50 per item that you make to take home. You get to take the piece through the entire process with guidance and help from the instructor, and you get to do as much as you are comfortable doing - and at any point, the instructor can step in and become your hands if you decide that you would be more comfortable as the art director than as the artist :-)
Materials will be provided by the studio: tools, colored and clear glass, work space, furnace, gloryhole, annealer, all of these will be there to use with instruction on how to do so.
I have been going to the studio regularly, making pieces that I am itching to give to my family as holiday gifts. If you have any hands-on make-stuff inclination, this is an AWESOME thing to try! The first two pieces I made were paperweights like you will make here. The first one was my Mothers' Day gift to my mom, the second sits on my desk at work and I smile every day when I look at it.
I need to know who will be there, so if this is interesting to you, reply so I can put you on the list. (If I don't get enough people I'm going to have to cancel the event, and I really don't want that to happen.) So, come to my glass studio, make a piece or two, and have an exciting story to tell about it when you show it to everyone!
The glass studio, DC Glassworks is just south of College Park, MD.
To give you an idea of what I made my first visit or two to the glass studio:
And this last photo is a link to a few more photos of each of the five pieces in it:
This will be reposted in a couple days.