Having somehow missed May out :o :o I thought we ought to start the gallery again, with June. :)
I've been playing with space backgrounds from a tutorial in Glassline
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/5807736063_cdc71426ac.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5807736063/)
Spaceman (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5807736063/) by A flame with desire (http://www.flickr.com/people/flyingbead/), on Flickr
and making vessels - this one is Purple Sable:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5239/5807735535_21c3f01b6d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5807735535/)
Sable lachrymatory (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5807735535/) by A flame with desire (http://www.flickr.com/people/flyingbead/), on Flickr
Lovely! Really like the Lacyrmycmyf.... nice shaped vessels your making at the moment ;D
Thanks - you'll see my 'planet' attempt is more of a squished comet! :D
Lovely vessel! :)
It looks like lips in the space one, would be an interesting place to visit. :D I like the little swirly murrini creature.
Love them, especially the vessel :)
How did I miss this? Beautiful work, and I adore the name for the tear-receptacle :)
I like the space bead, rarther unusual and cool! That one really draws the eye into it for a closer look :)
Dawn
About time I posted something! :-[ Been so busy I haven't really been able to play, and feel the need to make marbles! Excuse the hog, some of these marbles are BIG the largest is a 40mm whopper!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/5842099710_e53d6014f5.jpg)(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/5842101906_e9b20ba0cb.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2561/5841554171_fa139306cb.jpg)
Thanks for looking! ;D
I love these, just saw them on Facebook.
The ones with latticino in are fabulous, and that floating vortex is catching my eye too - in fact, they're all brilliant ;D
I do love the one pictured on it's own :) Love those swirls, are they boro?
Quote from: glasseyeyes on June 17, 2011, 01:30:23 PM
I do love the one pictured on it's own :) Love those swirls, are they boro?
oh yes! I really do have some soft glass (somewhere under the dust ::) ::) ::)) I pretty much only use boro these day :)
Those marbles are fab Glenn ;D
Those marbles are awesome, love the vessels too!
Just a jar of feet:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5152/5845296439_8e2531d49e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5845296439/)
Just a jar of feet (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5845296439/) by A flame with desire (http://www.flickr.com/people/flyingbead/), on Flickr
Those are so much fun! ;D I love them (want one ;)) Go on, put a spoon end on one of them and use it to stir your tea :D
Just a jar of feet :D these are wonderful! Haha to the tea stirrer idea.
Love thse marbles Glen I think the bottom ones are my very favourites but they are all so lookintoable! ::) :)
Amazing work, you talented lot!
I love the tea stirrer idea! ;D ;D
They weren't meant for that, but I can see them making excellent stirring things :D
Quote from: garishglobes on June 18, 2011, 08:41:04 PM
They weren't meant for that
They are very intriguing, and look really quite lifelike took, but I am very curious to know of there is something else you have planned for them
Love the marbles and feet ;D so cool.
Here is one of my Orchids i love making these.
(http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/604/herschaaldekopievansere.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/805/herschaaldekopievansere.jpg/)
Marcel, that is beautiful.
Thank you ;) here is some more eye candy 8)
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4716/herschaaldekopievangree.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/121/herschaaldekopievangree.jpg/)
Ooooooooooooooh, eye candy. Lovely :D
That looks great Marcel. I love orchids. I have three plants in flower in the bay window at the moment.
Love the vessel, marbles, feet and orchids, you clever lot.
Wow again :o stunning marbles Glenn, Emma I love the feet! and Marcel your orchids are exquisite :)
Those orchids are amazing! :o :o :o
I seem to go to the torch intent on making smallish stuff and right now I end up making everything big! Proper paperweight marble, it's 40mm domed top, but only about 32/33mm tall, really quite pleased with this, I can't really get photos to do it justice. Mind you, I was pretty hot by the time I'd finished it! :D
(http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq8/DendrobiumGLENN/40mmflowerpaperw1small.jpg)(http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq8/DendrobiumGLENN/40mmflowerpaperw2small.jpg)
That's absolutely gorgeous.....I can see why you are pleased with it! :) :)
That's stunning Glenn. And beautiful colours too. :)
Oooo thats a beauty Glenn !!
Love the feet Emma
Marcel those are lovely orchids
Glenn, that's a stunner!! :o :o
Hey Glenn, that's gorgeous!
Any tips on technique? I can rarely get implosions that deep, and when I do, it seems to be by pure chance...
Sean
That marble is just stunning Glen.
Thank you everyone ;D
Quote from: Hamilton Taylor on June 24, 2011, 07:45:46 AM
Hey Glenn, that's gorgeous!
Any tips on technique? I can rarely get implosions that deep, and when I do, it seems to be by pure chance...
Sean
Not sure I've got any tips, apart from way too much practise and a very full reject bin ::) ::) ::) :D :D I'm quite heavy handed with the initial implossion parts, it's difficult to describe but just after I've got the implossion going I tend to push down quite hard to get rid of the 'divot' hole at the bottom that seems to form. Doing that you see the colours push right out into the glass quite a way. After that I'm a little more gentle with it, but like you say alot of the times it's by chance too. This one was a bit of a cheat as it hadn't gone as deep into the glass as I wanted, and the petals had gone quite wide; I know from experiance that if I'd have formed it into a traditional marble shape the petals would have folded down the sides and not looked so good, so I formed the top into a wide lens to incorporate it. A happy accident as I've wanted to try and make these alot bigger.
As well as thinking the implosion is fabulous, I am just in awe of the size of it! 40mm is big! :D :D
That is so impressive Glenn - just beautiful. I can't wait to see what those feet are going to be used on Emma ;D
I blame Glenn!
Two 'paperweights':
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5319/5877050342_be6e575a4a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5877050342/)
Cheese (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5877050342/) by A flame with desire (http://www.flickr.com/people/flyingbead/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/5877049772_6ec9d4e9bf.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5877049772/)
Space paperweight (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5877049772/) by A flame with desire (http://www.flickr.com/people/flyingbead/), on Flickr
Ooooh, wow!!!!!! Oh my, what fabulous work on here! I'm shamelessly neglecting boro this month (apart from at Stacy's get-together) - must try harder! :-\
QuoteI blame Glenn!
Phew! I was worried I hadn't been around here enough to be a bad influence ;) :D :D :D
Love the cheese, the mouse is so cute, and that certianly looks like a corker of a space marble/paperweight ;D
Thanks :) The planet still flattened out a bit but I think that may be inevitable, with a paperweight.
Ooooh love that planet Emma! :)
Lovely paperweights Emma - I particularly love the cheesy implosion :D Although that does sound a bit like an ailment suffered after too much pizza! :o
Well, here's my first attempt at a moving thing. It is for Cinderella, the idea of all the feet the footman had to try that glass slipper on before it fitted her dainty foot.
I got halfway through, chickened out and glued parts, but I think it would be quite hard not to. And I apologise for the music, but it was that or my OH complaining that I wasn't turning the handle as well as he did!! ;D ;D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5887694399 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5887694399)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D It's so fabulous!!!!!
Mine's very, very humble by comparision:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5231/5887328032_d3058359e7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesparrowinflight/5887328032/)
Job advert (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesparrowinflight/5887328032/) by Sabine Little (http://www.flickr.com/people/thesparrowinflight/), on Flickr
Yours is soooo cute!! ;D ;D
Emma, that's pure dead mental...
Sabine, much more sedate, restful, and all-round less disturbing....
:)
Sean
Thats so sureal!!! Like Sean said, mental, but I kinda like it! I never would have guessed you were making them into an automaton!
And the pumpkin is lovely too, but my mind has been too warped by the dancing feet to really appreciate it properly! :-[
Wow!!
I love them all!!
Emma, that is just fabulous, I laughed like a drain (I'd still kill to be able to stir my tea though ;)) Sabine, that is truly beautiful.
All I want to do is tickle those toes - brilliant ;D ;D ;D
Thanks folks :) Sean, I will take that as a compliment! :D
The toes make quite a clicky glass noise, but the camera won't capture it properly ::)
Thank you everybody for the cool comments ;)
Awesome paperweights this month :)
Here is my Ancient Ceremonial Knife.
(http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/7145/shamanknife.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/shamanknife.jpg/)
:o :o :o :o :o Wow! Your stuff always has me going wow Marcel! And I have to remind myself when looking at it that it's glass not horn or bone! :o
The feet are simply brilliant! ;D
Thank you for the cool comment keeps me motivated :D
Wow, that knife is fantastic. :)
Those feet Emma you are truly brilliant! ;D
Yesterday was a good day to make vessels ;)
(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1427/herschaaldekopievandays.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/96/herschaaldekopievandays.jpg/)
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8935/herschaaldekopievangif.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/herschaaldekopievangif.jpg/)
Lovely!
What's the colour in the bottom pic?
Sean
thanx Sean :) there filled with insence