Second day at the glass expo.
Me combing red hot glass with the instructor Patty Gray. I really want one of these kilns. You can drop the floor down to comb or you can make vitrographs or murrini. My combed glass piece while still red hot. It started our as straight strips of color.
Cindi one of the assistants in the class brought Zippy. A really sweet friendly dog. Pattern bars, twisted cane, vitrograph, murrini, an unfired student piece with pattern bars, what I hope my combed glass will look like, but I used brighter colors. Fired student projects.
These are the my pieces. The three on the left are before firing. I can pick them up them up after firing tomorrow. The two on the right are the ones I made yesterday, they were fired last night. We had dinner at the bowling alley. It is the only restaurant that does not have a really long line, and you can watch bowling while you eat! We were joined by Karen, a glass friend from Denver who is also here for the expo. I caught them both with food in their mouths. They even had wine in cans.
Today I took a class on fusing mold making from ceramic clay. It was taught by Michael Harbridge. I I learned you can make a mold from anything. It was a lot of fun and I have some great ideas to try out once I get back to my studio in Fort Collins. I spent the afternoon at the vendor exhibition hall. Top left is one of the free demos that they had all day. going clockwise a bead making demo, Some of the vendors and my combed glass piece that I made yesterday. It cooled down in a kiln overnight and I picked it up today.
The gallery of excellence is a glass show anyone attending can enter. Left is a glass skeleton, going clockwise a cast glass iron, a glass dress (the vest part) and a huge colorful piece. I picked up pieces that I made yesterday. They fired overnight. I am pleased with the new techniques I learned.
In the late afternoon John and I sat in the sun at the pool until it disappeared- the sun, not the pool. It was 70 degrees and sunny. Sunset from our hotel room. It is strange colored from the tinted windows.
Today I took a class on beading a cabochon. Here is the class. The lady in red is the instructor, Lisa. Excellent instructor. Fun class. Took 7 hours to make our pieces. I am exhausted. these are some that Lisa made as examples.
Here is my piece. 7 hours to make. The instructor said it takes her about an hour and a half. After practice I could probably do better, but not as fast as her. The glass cutting contest in the exhibit hall. The contestants get 3 minutes to cut as many pieces as possible in the pattern. They are judged on how many pieces and how good they were. Hold your cutters up and go. The artists cutting. Pretty amazing. The winners got to pick their prizes from a table of items donated by the vendors, glass tools, glass etc.
John and I got into the elevator and these 4 young men were facing the back of the elevator. If anyone talked to them one of them would go "meep meep meep". We got off and they went back up. We think they were part of some of the baseball teams staying at the casino. We went outside to watch the sunset and the full moon rise. The full moon rising over our hotel, with sunset reflected in it.
Sunset from outside, unadulterated by the tinting on our rooms window. These windows are on the front of the casino. All these years I have been going to the expo and I finally realized that the logo for the expo is these front window. I guess I am usually so busy with classes etc that I never go outside.
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