Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Day 2!

Some pics of Gail showing us how to work the lapidary machines. Diamonds are a girl's best friend, diamond grit lapidary wheels that is!

Pendants are polished!!

Rick Kincheloe's Stacked Bowl Piece



Stack bowls; an exercise in volume and movement

Making some bowls

I'm excited to see what this looks like after firing! I am going to slump this into a mold after fusing.

Cutting circles for bowls!

Today we are starting to make bowls using layering techniques. We want to see how layering changes the volume and expansion of the glass. 

And I cut a circle! This is one thing I thought I would struggle with, but I did it! 

It gets a bit chilly in our studio.

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Martha and I can't help but catch some rays while waiting to cut glass.