Category Archives: My art

I swear we are almost done with the four-headed giraffe thing… part 2…

You could make something like that… if you wanted too… I mean, yeah, I went to the trouble of going into Photoshop and making a four-headed giraffe thing, to which I added four hippo heads and a tie dye background, … Continue reading

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I swear we are almost done with the four-headed giraffe thing… part 1…

I guess, technically, this is the four-headed giraffe, four-headed hippo thing… I added a few backgrounds. You know, just for fun. And next, I am going to do the artistic filter effects with each of these in turn. Because I … Continue reading

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If you don’t know what this is, go back and read the first post in the series… part 10…

But at least I moved on to using cool filter effects on photos of the stuff I made at my second glass blowing class… HA!

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Two of my newest creations from my glass blowing class…

I have finished the classes for now. Here are two of my latest pieces of art… or pieces of Art, as it were. I did not take a picture of the vase I made for my older daughter… the one … Continue reading

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Some pictures from my third… and final… glass blowing class… the final chapter…

How do you add colors to glass? Well, it turns out that you roll the hot glass in various chemicals and compounds, and then melt them into it.  The colors stretch and move as the glass is worked. Here we … Continue reading

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If you don’t know what this is, go back and read the first post in the series… part 9…

Oh yeah… Still doing weird filter effects with my glass blowing projects… Because I can… Making art into other kinds of art.

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Some pictures from my third… and final… glass blowing class… part 2…

I know, I already sort of explained the glass blowing process, way back after my first lesson. But it is hard to take photos while working with molten glass. For my third and final class, I showed up a little … Continue reading

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I said we were going to have some fun with this… part 18…

Okay, that is the last one… you know… of the one with the tiger stripe background. But we still have the one with the hippo heads, and the one with the ostrich heads… to which I might add some funny … Continue reading

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Some pictures from my third… and final… glass blowing class… part 1…

There I am, with my teacher, Megg… who is totally cool. Taking a selfie while working with molten glass is not for the faint of heart. Here you see us, with a huge blob of hot glass on the end … Continue reading

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My newest glass blowing projects…

These are my two newest vases. They are going to be Christmas presents. Good thing my family doesn’t read my blog. HA! The one on the left was going to be for my older daughter, Jessica. She wanted a gold … Continue reading

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