I'm so excited, I can't sit still. Next Sunday I leave for Austin, TX to go to Glass Camp with Jim and Rose Berry at Blue Moon Glassworks.You see, they offer a lot more than lampworking at their studio and although I am teaching sculptural glass class there in September 2010, this is to learn other types of glass from Jim and to work on possible collaborations that mix multi areas of glass. Woohoo!
So I've got a list of things I want to learn a mile long and I don't know how much of his time I can take, but here are some of the things I've been dreaming about.
Learn how to cut glass really well, and solder it. And to learn how to fuse and how to adjust my kiln and not be scared to death to try something that I am not sure about.
And he's got sandblasting, and cold working tools as well as one of those really cool things that you fill with glass chunks and then it melts it and you pull out the glass in swirls and then play with it. A pot melt?
And of course there's stained glass, mosaics, tons of other stuff too. I've looked at the photo gallery on his website and it looks like a playground any glass lover would enjoy.
If you haven't met Jim and Rose, here is a photo of them.
I'll be teaching a quickie evening sculptural Santa class on Tuesday night while I'm there as well. Jim reported that it filled in 2 days. I know that we will all have a lot of fun and laughs that evening too.
So where to start? I'm leaving that to Jim. I'll just be so happy to get the chance to learn a lot from him and his areas of expertise. And of course I'll be blogging about what I attempt and posting photos too, so you can learn along with me and see what I'm experiencing too.
So if you have suggestions of things I should request, please speak up. So much of this is totally new. I can melt glass, but there are so many other things to do with it too. I just hope I can sleep this week while waiting.
See you tomorrow right here on http://www.StudioMarcy.blogspot.com
Have a wonderful trip Marcy. Can't wait to see what new techniques you learn.
ReplyDeleteHi Marcy,
ReplyDeleteI recently took a lampwork class at Snow Farm and there was a fusing class downstairs. They were doing potmelts and I was soooo impressed. They were gorgeous and fun. In that class, they cut the potmelts into funky shapes and made them into incredible pendants. In fact, I bought one. If you don't know about Snow Farm, check them out. Really great place. I wrote about the class in my blog, too.
Have a great trip!