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Another piece from me and Troy Bennett.. This one started last time we got together in KC, and sat waiting for the right time to get finished. This one features a large sculpted piece of boro with a bolt penetrating the hole in the middle.. The piece has been wrapped in copper wire and electroformed. The bolt and part of the fossilized teeth have been electroformed as well. A black brown patina was used to give a prehistoric feeling to the piece.. This is one more piece that is definately a push from the norm for both Troy and myself. ........ 9 1/4" tall and a little over 5 1/2" tooth to tooth.
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This piece is #3 in a series that Troy Bennett and I are working on..I have to say in a lot of ways this ones my favorite yet.. Troy managed to pack a bunch of gold fumed dots in this one... This coldworked paperweight features a dynamic fumed organic flower on the inside, with a ton of detail and color. The dome shape accents the amazing flower shape inside, and the window cut reveals layers of blues, greens, ambers and reds. The outside has been heavily textured giving this piece a freshly dug up look.. The base has a small window into the bottom giving it an incredible look when held against a light, also a side view of the flower. This larger weight measures in at 3.5" tall and 2.25" wide.. Thanks for looking
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heres a few pieces from last month..
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heres a few "opal eye" weghts I just finished.. all are coldworked and feature gilson opals in the center...
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This piece is an abstract sculpted fern that has been sandblasted, electroformed, and oil painted. The back panel of the piece is a leaf print painting, using acrylic and organic mixed media. I focused on leaf relief and printing techniques towards the end of my senior year at scad, its good to go back to the canvas...Ive been wanting to push my work off of the table and onto the wall, and Im excited to see where this series ends up..Thanks to Luken, Mickelson and Fero for the inspiration.
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Still enjoying the Accucolor dichroic glass - especially the lenses! Here's another one. Measures 2"
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Boro weight with "Accucolor" dichroic glass center - which is a boro float lense. Great stuff. Dichroic courtesy of Fred Rossi - Infinite Optics. Glass Alchemy frit on outside. Coldworked and polished. Measures 1.5"
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This is a larger "specimin" version of the amonite pendants that i have made in the past. The face of the piece has been ground and polished to reveal the fossil like inside. The inside has bands of irridescent fumed frit, and blue gold splintered dichroic glass running underneath. The beveled edge gives this piece a lot of depth when viewed at different angles. The backside has been heavily textured, with frit and fumes, to mimick a unearthed fossil. it measures 3.25" tall and 2.45" wide ....Thanks for looking...
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Here is a sample of some amonite pendants. Two are cut and polished and two are raw. there is a hole in the top for stringing.
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Been having alot of fun colaborating with Troy Bennett from Whoopzip. Many layers of frit and 3 stacked opals surrounded by organic swirls of cobalt and amber, are revealed through the window in front. The ouside has a very organic texture.. The effect of the stacked opals gives this piece alot of depth, which is hard to capture in the photographs... Thanks for looking...
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This unique, experimental series started a few years back conceptually, in the beginning days of KBglassworks.. We were set up at a local craft show in Edgewood, New Mexico.The woman next to us told us of her father who happened to be the retired head scientist/lampworker from Los Alamos National Laboratories. . No longer using his torch, his daughter offered some of the old tools, glass, and color from her fathers old shop.Most of the random finds we came upon consisted of scratched clear,colored boro from the 50's/60's,random tools and a small envelope that has lead me to this extremely rare and limited Area 51 mystery series.The old weathered envelope was addressed to the head scientist from McDonald Douglas Astronautics department. Inside the envelope was a small 1" X 2" metallic like sheet of mystery foil.After talking to Henry from Glass Alchemy we are speculating that it is a platinum sheet, but i like to believe that it is a piece of foil like rememinance from the crash site at area 51
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One more from the last time Troy Bennett and I got together. This one features a carved and electroformed raked relief on the back. The large cut face reveals a pear shaped gilson opal set over intricate fumed patterning. When held to a light, or put on a light base this one really glows...approx 3".
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Both are solid color with cold worked surfaces. Oganic sea grass and borosilicate glass. 85x22mm w/ grass & 80x18mm plain.
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This boro weight measures 3.7" tall by 1.5" - features a dichroic center with layers of GA frit on the outside. Has been coldworked and polished. Thanks for looking.
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Ive been wanting to do this for a while.. These are all closeup pictures of glass. The dichroic pic is the one that made me start thinking about addind an all closeup gallery..hopefully i can keep it updated
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This paperweight looks and feels like it fell from space. Frits and powders were used to create the many layers of yellow, blue, red , and organic tan. The piece was coldworked to reveal the blooming space lotus on the inside. The lotus style implosion holds a large white pear shaped gilson opal in the center. The outside has been coldworked to a smooth finish and then electroformed with copper. The heavily textured copper ranges in color from metallic red to a shimmering blue. This piece measures 2.25"
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These are a few from a new series I've been working on. All of the pieces have concave fronts with carved and sandblasted exteriors. Average size is around 46mm, and have a hole in the back for stringing.
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Still testing out the Accucolor - and I still love it. Measures 1.68"
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This is a re-make of the first carved and electroformed weight I made. I learned a lot with the first one about agressive dremmeling, and annealing, this one went off with no problems. GA frit and rod, CBS dichro, coldworked, and electroformed copper. measures 1.9". Thanks for looking...
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Borosilicate with dichroic glass - and copper electroformed. Thanks for looking.
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This piece is borosilicate - and has been coldworked and electroformed. It's part of a series of electroformed pieces I have been working on since December 2004.
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This boro weight has been copper electroformed and is part of an electroformed series. This piece has also been coldworked. Available for sale. Measures 2"
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Heres a few pieces from the past couple of weeks. The first one is a faceted collaboration piece with Troy Bennett.
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This is a new direction in the ever changing collaboration work between myself and Troy Bennett. This piece has two dichroic galaxys in the center of the pedestal. The surface has been treated with metals and foils, then electroformed with fossilized megalodon and sharks teeth inclusions that are 10-20 million years old. This was the second piece to come out of the newest series, with freeform sculpture and organic mixed media as the focus. This piece measures
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The "Beetle Tile" is a collaboration with Margaret Zinser, Rashan Jones and myself. The tile consists of lampworked beetles that have been fused to a solid black sandcarved tile.. ..Tile measures 7 3/8" x 3 7/8". See the making of the beetle for more info..
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heres a few of the recent paperweights that ive been making... the oval ones range from 3"-6" and have a rounded window in the front...the textured sphere is 2.5" and has a flat cut window... these pieces were made using glass alchemy frit and powders, fumes of gold and silver, dichroic glass and gilson opals....
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New boro beads by Andrew Brown. A new series of coldworked frit beads available for sale. For more info, please visit www.kbglassworks.com
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The first step was to make a blank by fusing 1" black boro rods together to make a flat tile.. After the tile was formed it was cut, rounded off on the belt sander, and sandblasted with a scarab image on the front.. Flameworked boro beetles were made and added along with with frit, opal, lusters, gold, and silver. An experimental silver transfer was added to the back before the second firing..
After moving to the annealer and cooled the piece was shaped by sandcarving around the edges to give it a weathered look ..
All in all this was a fun project to make with good friends in the new shop.. Cant wait to make more and see where this all ends up... Thanks for looking...
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This paperweight features a spiral blue dichroic vortex with a floating black gilson opal. The coldworked front reveals layers of organic tans and a vibrant whispy blue. A pattern of arrows has been electroformed on the outside, giving this geode a midieval feel. The copper has an aged patina makinig it look like an ancient relic... piece measures 2"
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heres a few pictures of the new shop... thanks to cisco and mel for the hospitality...and jones for the quasi inspiration and non stop rapping... ....I finally put all the paintings up, threw a carpet down, hung some beads, got a plant and the place is starting to feel like home.. all i need is a screen door, lazy boy, and a hibachi...still workin on it..
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Here is a new group of opal carver pendants. Gold and silver implosions with Gilson opal centers. All pieces have been sandblasted, carved, and have a negative cut and polished face. Thanks for looking.... See you in Tucson!
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Testing out a grey/ black backgound for taking pictures.. still have a little tweaking to do.. This is a request from a customer for another opal eye geode weight.. I changed this one up a bit and used some different colors.. the dichro is hidden in the background and pops from certian angles. There is a pear shaped gilson opal in the middle of a fumed lotus.. the layers of color include blue moon, ns yellow, and a mix of frits and fume for the outside....
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This geode paperweight features a pear shaped white gilson opal in the center. The outer ring of petals has trapped air bubbles under each one. There is also a layer of blue/green dichro behind the flower. The outside has a rough texture that has been heavily fumed giving it a strange metallic look.. The piece measures 3" x 1.6"
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Borosilicate & Coldworked - with Glass Alchemy frit.
1.82"
Thanks for looking.
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Heres a few cane marbles made with purple dichroic glass and rainbow stripes. marbles measure 1.3"
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These three just happened to match eachother.. Testing out a temporary photo setup.. I'm still in the process of setting up one at the shop... Hope this will work for now....
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ive made a couple like this one before..its always fun to play around with the stump sucker. New shopmate Reese helped out on this one..measures 2.18" just havin' fun
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These small weights all feature gold and silver fuming, with gilson opals. Ive been having a lot of fun just using clear with these. All have been cut and ground to an optical polish on the front and bottom. Weights range from 1.34" to 1.58".
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Its been a long time since making marbles... I had a few people ask about em' so heres a few. Milli's, opals, silver, and black crammed into a tube makes interstellarness.. this space series is defiately inspired by piper dizzle, gong, and josh simpson.. thats it with marbles for a bit, back to beads and weights..having some camera trouble more pics to come...
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This is a piece I made a few months back.. The base is a solid purple luster and the starfish is made with a combination of silver strike 5, cobalt, purple luster, blue passon and amazon bronze frit. The base has milli anenome clusters, and has been "painted" with a hand torch to give it a lustery sea foam look.. This is a large base of solid color, and was one of the largest and hottest pieces Ive done so far.. The piece measures 7" wide and is 5" tall by 4" deep.Thanks for looking.
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This is my favorite one yet.. The most recent in the series of collaborative work between myself and Troy Bennett. This coldworked paperweight features a heavily textured rock like solid with a natural looking cut crystal face. The hand faceted front opens up layers of powdered glass, and reveals a multiple layer gold fumed and cobalt implosion. In the center of the piece is a large irridescent white gilson opal floating right above the implosion. The organic looking facet cuts through the texture, revealing circular patterns around the perimiter of the face. This piece measures 2.42" x 3.1"
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here are a couple of marbles made with trillium white.. this seems to be a nice stable bright white. Turns a butter yellow when hot and cools to a vibrant white..can bubble, but works nice when hot.. easy to mix down with other colors.. so far i succesfully mixed a nice sky blue by mixing down with ga brilliant blue.it does thin down, but less than most whites...the marbles have been alive for about 3 days, so far no compatability issues.. i only got a few pieces but ill try to do some more experimenting..
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Tight spirals and reversals along with electroforming and cold-working make this piece truly unique....
Troy A. Bemett created the solid spiral inside while Andrew Brown coldworked, polished and copper electroformed the outside.
Measures 2.5" x 1.9"
A piece for the true collector. Stay tuned for more combo pieces by Troy & Andrew.
Troy can be reached at: whoopzipbien@yahoo.com -
Andrew can be reached at: Andrew@Kbglassworks.com
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This oval shaped geode features a fumed uranium honeycomb, with a brilliant white opal in the center. The curved window reveals layers of blues, ambers, and yellows. Behind the honecomb is a layer of green gold, and red dichroic glass. The outside has a natural texture, that has been fumed with gold for a metalic effect. The piece measures 2.9"w x 1.5"h. The blacklight glow is hard to capture in a photograph, still working on that. Thanks for looking...
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"Opal Sunrise"
by Andrew Brown
Flameworked borosilicate weight - with uranium, dichroic glass, Glass Alchemy frit - gold/silver fume with white opal on top -
Thanks for looking,
Andrew Brown
KBGlassworks
www.kb...
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These small paperweights were inspired by a mushroom marble Jared Delong made and brought to tucson a couple of weeks back. The simple cut with the non frit outside is a litte out of my norm, but I like the elegant look.. . Props again to Jared for the inspiration. average size is 1.5"
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I bow to thee
your artwork is truly original and inspiring! where does your inspiration come from?
» Posted by
ChristinaCody
on 2/12/2005 7:09:56 PM.
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I love it!!
Your work is truly inspiring. It's so beautiful. So often it seems that a lot of the work glassblowers produce leans more towards craft, but this is real art to me. i love it! keep it up
-Peter
» Posted by
PeterWoloszyn
on 2/25/2005 7:53:27 PM.
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amazing.
everything you make makes me say "wow..." you are truly a gifted artist. thank you for the inspiration. ~Cara
» Posted by
None
on 3/17/2005 2:25:39 PM.
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downtown brown
you make me feel all fuzzy inside!! thanks for all the info dude, you the man. your work is amazing, and your a funny guy too!! word, thank a lot. chris.
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ChrisACarlson
on 9/5/2005 4:47:27 AM.
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Hello!!
thank you for message!!
I like your work!
I'm also looking forward to seeing Tucson this year!
I'll meet at Tucson!
thanks
GLASS STUDIO HAND
Aki
» Posted by
AkihiroOhkamaSJapaneseGlass
on 1/19/2006 9:40:04 AM.
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really nice work
wanted to say thanks for lookin at my stuff.I was also wondering if you would like to put some work in my gallery..hit me up . some time.
» Posted by
NathanPurcell
on 3/1/2006 11:24:37 AM.
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Your Geods are so sick
the first time i seen them was in the flow and my jaw dropped... Nice Work
» Posted by
RobertKochGlass
on 5/21/2006 9:08:16 PM.
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Wow
Your works are great too. Thanks for your message. The Dreamladder high 52cm. Sorry for reply so late.
LuChi
» Posted by
LuChi
on 5/29/2006 9:39:13 PM.
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hey man
your work is sick, when i got the funds for one of your peice im on it... thats for sharing..
jason mcghee
» Posted by
JMcghee
on 7/14/2006 4:39:13 PM.
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hey man
your work is sick, when i got the funds for one of your peice im on it... thats for sharing..
jason mcghee
» Posted by
JMcghee
on 7/14/2006 4:39:16 PM.
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Snakes On a A PLANE !!!
» Posted by
JonesArtGlass
on 9/27/2006 10:05:09 AM.
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tight!
clean and consistant. Beautiful work.
» Posted by
Sebastian
on 2/15/2007 5:23:24 PM.
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great work yourself man. keep up the good work. espeically diggin on the electroformed stuff, hows that done? you going to GAS?
» Posted by
MarkLeputa
on 6/2/2007 4:00:03 PM.
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Yum!
LOVE YOUR WORK! My family loves the work I made with you in your class at ISGB gathering. Thank you for sharing, and helping me to become better with hot and cold glass.
Peace.
» Posted by
SheilaM
on 7/31/2007 9:43:58 AM.
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Can I have your babies?!?!
Slick gallery here Andrew - Looking at your glass I'd never guess you were a fashion model and world class Sous Chef as well as an excellent glass blower!
» Posted by
GreymatterGlass
on 9/12/2007 1:58:16 AM.
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thanks for the support, i have been digging your work for some time now.
» Posted by
MarkLeputa
on 10/28/2007 5:18:43 AM.
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Love your work!
Someday I hope to see some in person...
» Posted by
WesleyFleming
on 2/29/2008 8:48:23 PM.
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LOVE YOUR WORK!!!
YOUR COLDWORKED MARBLES ARE AMAZING!!!
» Posted by
NewMillenniumGlass
on 5/7/2008 3:19:37 PM.
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