First of all, I want to say THANKS to my friends and family because I could not have gotten this far without their help and support!...
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Sea life on the outside of a fully outside worked and coilpot piece 16 in. tall, 4in. wide vase.
Extra clean
This is one of my students, Melissa and also my girlfriend. She has been blowing glass for about three months now. I am very proud of her. She and I set up this gallery page. It is a timeline of the first month and a half of her work, the first three pics are day #1. The next three are 2 days later. Then Two weeks later, three weeks later, and the last pictures are after about a month. She's awesome. Thanks for looking.
This is after a month and a half to two months of glassblowing. Picture #2 and #3 are glass earplugs and that's the first on the spot custom order Melissa ever got and she filled it. The peaople picked it up and were happy as a bug... I'm so proud of her.
CHECK HER OUT NOW! This is also in a time order, from two and a half months to a little over three. The first two images are of 1 1/2"x1" mini paperweights and she's already starting on ratticello pendants. Her latest thing is the nature pendants she thought of herself. I just gave her the principles and the ideas flow from within. I love it...
This is my other student Brenton, and he is one of my best friends. He, like Melissa, is also an amazing learner. This is a timeline for about the last three months. In the pictures with tubing, I was teaching him to flame cut. He does a really good job. Thanks for looking.
This took about a thousand pounds of oxy each...
Present to my Dad- it says his name in Farsi on the bucket of the vase. He really likes it. 18in. tall by 3in. wide.
Ooold School!About five years ago. I made this with no kiln, table cooled baby. I had some inspiration going, let me tell you. It survived a long time, I can't believe that it last this long. Borosilicate glass is some tough stuff. Thanks for looking.
This piece is another one of my stepping stone pieces. This one is from very deep inside my spirit. This piece was extemely, extremely hard to make. It is made out of a 4 ft. piece of 4mil rod and does not touch itself at any point. It stands 4in. tall 5in. long and 3in. wide. I had to plan each move way ahead because even if you come down to the very last turn and the move passes a pre- exiting bend, everything will collapse and touch everywhere and because it's all clear glass, it's almost impossible to tell where it touched. So it's literally impossible to correct. This is truly a one shot deal. I can't wait until one day when I have the resources to do what I envision and replicate my imagination. Thanks for looking.
This was my first try at a jellyfish. 1 1/4in. tall.
One of my career achievements- this piece was extremely hard for me to make. It's fifteen pieces of glass put together. Sectioning from the top going down we have silver fumed honeycomb, outside clear and silver dots, two inside out reverse axis montages, another inside out silver fume honeycomb, four reversal pieces put together to make one reversal montage, before ending it with a full body wrap and rake reversal base. This piece was given to my family as a gift and sits safe at Mom's house. This means a lot to me to be able to show this. I'm super stoked. I want to thank all the companies who made it happen- Carlisle Co. for their awesome torches, Glass Alchemy and Northstar for their awesome color, and all the suppliers who give me tools for myself and my peers to express oursleves.
I made these a while back when I was going Murrini crazy. But those darn things take a lot of precious color. So I only make one or two, every once in a great while for now but i do have a lot of great ideas I can't wait to try out one day.
Reduced ratticello
Honeycomb paperweight using some millies by me. They're pretty easy to make, just take some 4mm rod and create an octagon shape, then fume it and encase it in clear. That's the rough explanation. If anyone wants details, anyone is welome to write me an email for help in any subject or technique. Just throw me an email. This is the biggest paperweight I've made yet. It was a gift for my girlfriend. It took a lot of energy going into it. I started off with flattening 32mm rod into a patty the size of Mars. Cool. So this one is truly special. End product is almost 4in. wide and 2in. tall.
This is the beginning of my recent ratticello obsession. This piece went to a very good friend of mine. Paperweight is 3 1/2" by 1 1/2". Thanks for looking.
You know how some pieces just hang around for a long time? Kinda like they're meant to stay with you? Then one day you make that decision and it becomes something you don't want to get rid of. This is one of those. I think it's cute. I would n't give it up for a million bucks.
This is one of my personal favorites. It was really hard trying to get this image. At the end, I still could not get a good shot the way I see it. Thanks for looking.
I really liked this piece it has a great owner now. My girlfriend and I sold it to a lovely lady at the San Fransisco free Bluegrass festival this year, it was an awesome show...
This is an old piece also. I switched this back twelve times and the back of this piece is coilpot latti. 6" tall by 2" wide. Thanks for looking.
This is a collection of many things I've made over the years for my family, going back to when I first began blowing glass. I try to give my mom the first of any of my stepping stone pieces. If life and finances allow me to.
This is the second really big reduction ratticello, It becomes a chore after a pound of glass for 1/2 hour(feel the burn baby)...this is a big achievement. I'm really stoked with how this came out. 3" by 1 1/2".
This is my studio. Anyone is welcome to visit!
On a simple switchback. Thats my awesome dogger in the background you can see pictures of her www.Petpics.org thanks to Justin and his crew...This one also went at the San Fransisco bluegrass festival...and again that show was great.
In this one I was trying to create a solid spiral image in the background...2 1/2"
Trying to go bigger and bigger, tighter and tighter, more and more lines I love it....
An old Marble.
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I'm a glassblower in Petaluma, CA and I have a 1200 sq. ft. studio. My phone # is (707) 781-9773 if anyone is interested in raw material and supplies, classes or studio space rental, or want to just come in and visit the XL facilities, please contact me and anyone is also welcome to stop by any time during our business hours, Tue-Thu, 8am-5pm. Thanks for checking us out.
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Nice work!! Posted by
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