The weather has been much nicer. Worked on the glass for the last few nights..... Here's the progress:
It allowed me to start on some inside out work, instead of applying the color on the outside of the tube and then forming the spoon, the inside is flared out, fumed, color added, closed back down then blow a bunch of bubbles and condense the glass a bunch to really melt in the color to the clear and then shape it to a spoon and hope to hell it doesnt crack! Notice one is heavily used already, now that I'm fuming each pipe with real silver, it adds a layer of color and effects after the pipe has been used a while. In the one shown you can see the purples and golds coming out a little in it. The stem of the spoons arent colored, but are condensed down to be super thick, aka widebody.
Also pay attention to the 2nd pipe in from the left, notice the color isnt just color lines, its a piece of multi-colored cane instead.
So those were fun, then I wanted to make the stems a little neater so I did a spiral condense on them and added some blobs to the side of the bowls. I really focused hard on getting a nice pinwheel at the heads too. 2 of 3 aint bad I guess.
Next up, I worked on frit for a while. Frit is crushed up glass powder, comes in all different coarsenesses, and by layering thick pebbles with thin sand textures, this is what I got. The one on the left with the blue has the same multi-colored cane as a few of the spoons in the pics above, and was pulled from regular tubing. The two on the right were a little bit different, they have a flatter head because the head was made flatter after the bubble was blown. The color looks odd in the pics, but looks real nice in person.
This is what I was referring to with the multi-colored cane. Instead of just a single color, it adds some effects. Thankfully, a very easy to learn trick.
These sure take up space. 2 nights of work! Now its time to go to the local smoke shop and see if the guy will buy some.
Thanks for watching!