Glass is crackOkay, so it only took me two months to get these pictures online, but here they are:
These are what my two [slightly boring] pieces were in the student/instructor show at the Pittsburgh Glass Center for the last couple of months. Matt, Sarah, and Allan even came from far away lands to view my loverly work. That made me happy.
I’m completely addicted to glass and I’m certain it will be my demise. I spend at least 50% of all my pays on either taking classes, buying color, or renting time. Last Tuesday I burned myself trying to drop color onto a clear bubble. Then, on Wednesday, I was helping out a paperweight class and one of the students handed me a tool on the wrong side [i.e., it was about 1500 degrees or so] and burned me pretty badly. The burns are on the same hand, too…. Which is incredibly inconvenient being that it’s my right hand and I’m completely gimpy with my left.
Glass is hot. Like 2200 degrees hot. Ouch. The next image is me actually working with this way too hot stuff:
These are my instructors, Drew Hine and Heather McElwee [I just learned to say it properly, ‘mac!-el-wheee’ …which confuses me because we don’t say ‘mac-donald’s’. But that’s okay, Heather’s much cooler than a crumbling-multi-national-heart-attack-provider], who are very cool. Drew likes to see me intoxicated and Heather will make a cake for you on an hour’s notice. Oh, yeah, and they’re also extremely talented glassblowers.
P.S. My mommy turned 66 yesterday. She actually gets carded whenever she wants to use her senior citizen discount. She's beautiful.
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