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First Blown Egret Attempt

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First Blown Egret Attempt I am part of a group in Yakima, WA that is trying to raise funds for a soft glass studio. ( www.bellavitra.com ) We did a fundraiser on April 28th at The Spring Barrel Tasting event put on by local wineries. It involved art and wine barrels. My friend Sandi Drury did the slumped glass and I did the blown glass. We kind of had to rush this one, but I'm going to have to do another one of these for sure.


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Finished project
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Someone with a case of wine broke off the cattail before I could get a picture, so I'll have to fix it.

Egret
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This is the picture I looked at to blow out the body sections.

Blown part
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I blew two sections and welded them together at the neck.

Silver fume around eye/beak
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I used Egyptian white sand unencased for the body, and caramel/Onyx for the beak and eyes. I'm going to sandblast the next one, and maybe some oil paint?

Waving it in the flame
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Trying to heat it up slowly.

Heating up the leg attachments
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Gotta love the herbie, smooth as butter.

Heating up the legs
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Getting ready for the weld
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Welding bird to base
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Good clean weld
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Just about done
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Ready for the kiln

Another shot
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I need to work on some of the angles and make way more grass/cattails for the next one, but I'm pretty happy with this one.



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Ro S Glass World
beautiful!
great piece and thanks for the detailed pictures! I hope you raised a lot!
Ro
» Posted by RoSGlassWorld on 5/8/2006 6:17:11 AM.
Nathan Steele
wowow
I was planning to make a snowy egret too !I see them all the time here in northern cali.I'm stoked to see that you made a nice one.You beat me to it, inspiring.
» Posted by NathanSteele on 5/10/2006 11:25:07 AM.

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