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wheaton village demo day 2 Jamie harris and liz perkins were the last fellows, these pictures are from the demonstration day in november.


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charging the color furnace
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liz 
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color overlay
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jamie harris
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swedish overlays then coldowrked to reveal the layers underneath

liz's work
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pat d'verre cast doily attached to a blown form

hot potato
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dennis gardner getting ready to stir hot glass with a potato

dennis heating liz's piece
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keeping the patt d'verre doily hot.

 
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dennis is heating the patt deverre glass doily on a pastorelli plate so that it can be attached to the vessel

 
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sam, jamie, and hank adams jamie is heating his vessel while mosha inflates air into it.

 
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four, maybe five gathers and at least three different color overlays.

 
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dennis placing the hot doiley in the glory hole for liz to attach it to her vessel.

hot potato, litterally 
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dennis stirring the molten blue glass with a steel rod and a potato

 
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glass is thrown into the furnace in bags of powder, this is the unmelted batch that needs to be raked level to melt evenly in the furnace.

 
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patt deverre doileys cast ready to be placed on a vessel

 
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jamie harris shaping the vessel with newspaper while laura sheilds him from the heat, mosha is inflating the piece also.

 
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streching the vessel

 
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 Artist:   licata  ( ) Contact Artist 
licata
thanks for viewing my art, my name is dave licata and i've been working with glass for the last four years now torchworking and just recently the last eight months blowing and hot sculpting. my home base is white plains ny but i'm all over the place right now. thanks everybody for the great comments and i'm just glad we have this kind of supportive community sharing all our beautiful creations. never stop.

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Justin
Awesome pictures
Gotta chime in with Fred, those are some great hotshop photos.
» Posted by Justin on 12/15/2005 2:41:56 PM.
Harpentuan
tater
is the potatoe used just to get more thrust when stirring, or some sort of a shape to gather glass on?
» Posted by Harpentuan on 12/23/2005 5:01:22 AM.

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