Boro Gallery June 2011

Chameleon · June 23, 2011, 09:12:02 PM

Oooo thats a beauty Glenn !!
Love the feet Emma
Marcel those are lovely orchids

garishglobes · June 23, 2011, 10:28:59 PM

Glenn, that's a stunner!!

Hamilton Taylor · 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

Pat from Canvey · June 24, 2011, 08:23:33 AM

That marble is just stunning Glen.

Steampunkglass · June 24, 2011, 10:34:36 AM

Thank you everyone

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

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.

garishglobes · June 24, 2011, 10:46:27 AM

As well as thinking the implosion is fabulous, I am just in awe of the size of it! 40mm is big!

fionaess · June 24, 2011, 10:59:37 AM

That is so impressive Glenn - just beautiful. I can't wait to see what those feet are going to be used on Emma

garishglobes · June 27, 2011, 02:23:01 PM

I blame Glenn!

Two 'paperweights':

Cheese by A flame with desire, on Flickr

Space paperweight by A flame with desire, on Flickr

sparrow · June 27, 2011, 02:25:51 PM

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! $:-\$

Steampunkglass · June 27, 2011, 02:29:01 PM

QuoteI blame Glenn!

Phew! I was worried I hadn't been around here enough to be a bad influence

Love the cheese, the mouse is so cute, and that certianly looks like a corker of a space marble/paperweight

garishglobes · June 27, 2011, 02:36:36 PM

Thanks

The planet still flattened out a bit but I think that may be inevitable, with a paperweight.

jammie · June 27, 2011, 04:28:34 PM

Ooooh love that planet Emma!

awrylemming · June 27, 2011, 05:29:43 PM

Lovely paperweights Emma - I particularly love the cheesy implosion

Although that does sound a bit like an ailment suffered after too much pizza!

garishglobes · June 30, 2011, 05:56:19 PM

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!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbead/5887694399

sparrow · June 30, 2011, 05:58:07 PM

It's so fabulous!!!!!

Mine's very, very humble by comparision:

Job advert by Sabine Little, on Flickr