Boro Gallery September 2011

Steampunkglass · September 13, 2011, 03:50:21 PM

The goblets are great and I love the paperweight - how big is it?

Marcel · September 13, 2011, 05:47:44 PM

thank you for the compliments the paperweight is
3,4 cm wide x 2,9 cm high

glasseyeyes · September 15, 2011, 03:55:55 PM

Hello everyone,

Jacky67 - these are lovely, I do like the pose!

Marcel - that is one beautiful paperweight, reminds me of reaching up from the depths, very intriguing .

Sabine - cool! It's funny how kids can inspire us instead of us inspiring them!

I have had a long break but am starting to pick up again, here are some boro marbles done for my son, not done vortex before so not perfect by any means and one cracked. Still practise makes perfect.....

DSC03496 by dawnsbeadboutique, on Flickr

DSC03500 by dawnsbeadboutique, on Flickr

Dawn

Steampunkglass · September 15, 2011, 04:07:18 PM

Quotenot done vortex before so not perfect by any means

I beg to differ! Look pretty good to me!!!

Jacky67 · September 15, 2011, 04:24:59 PM

the marbles look fab!!

Jacky

garishglobes · September 15, 2011, 04:53:48 PM

I beg to differ too! Those are fab vortexes!

glasseyeyes · September 16, 2011, 08:54:15 PM

Thank you everyone!

I made another one today, this time soft glass, I'll photograph it tomorrow as it's late now. Managed to ruin it by adding a signature cane made from intense black, I'm usually good with murinni but this just looked like a black blob. Back to the drawing board on that one!

Night night!

Dawn

Marcel · September 17, 2011, 11:19:25 AM

thank you Dawn and Great vortex marbles

Here is my Spirithorse.

Jacky67 · September 18, 2011, 09:07:05 AM

awesome marcel!!

Marcel · September 19, 2011, 02:39:38 PM

Thank you Jacky

garishglobes · September 19, 2011, 03:11:23 PM

I love the horse too. The ears are perfect

I've been wanting to do egg cups for a while, but am still working on even goblet lips...this guy neatly gets round that problem

It is made as one piece, with the foot spun out and then the top shaped, so has a hole right the way through. Foot should be bigger, but I can work on that!

Humpty by A flame with desire, on Flickr

And a perfume bottle:

Perfume bottle by A flame with desire, on Flickr

sparrow · September 19, 2011, 04:23:12 PM

Lovely spirit horse Marcel, and great vortex marbles, too!

Emma, I love the egg cup, lo! You'll have to 'dress up' every egg, though

glasseyeyes · September 19, 2011, 05:52:16 PM

Hello...

Marcel I do like the horse, but I am biased of course cause I love horses....

I love the perfume bottle but I really really like the egg cup, I totally agree you will have to dress up ever one.....

Dawn

Jacky67 · September 19, 2011, 06:42:01 PM

I luuuuuuve the perfume bottle!!!!!

Jacky

Pat from Canvey · September 20, 2011, 07:26:21 AM

I love both the egg cup and the perfume bottle. You mention the spun out base. Lucio demo'd this quickly in his class and uses the bases with his ornate figure work. I tried this at home with very dismal results. You'll have to give us a class. It would be worth a drive,