#flamework

[girlofindustry]

Wisteria is blooming everywhere in Berkeley right now so I had to make another pair of wisteria blossom earrings.

Available now

[what-even-is-sleep]

Really loved @lord-prey ‘s super cool artwork and thought it could transfer well to glass.

🚨GO LOOK AT THEIR PIECE FIRST🚨

[multidimesionalbrainism]

A little meditating dude i made when i was 19

[beetleboyart]

“Sketch #1”

Materials:

Borosilicate Rod

Copper Wire

I wanted to create a wearable piece that would use the properties of glass to distort my face. In my eyes this piece is more of a sketch than a finished artwork. I want to revisit this piece using soft glass. I love working with Boro glass, but it does not enjoy having anything included within it, copper included. It did work, but it was incredibly fragile.

[gilliansgloriousgarbagepile]

Question for Lampworkers

So i've been interested in glasswork for 5ever, and just yesterday i made my first ACTUAL STEP into lampwork, and it didn't go over super well and i KNOW that that just happens the Question is, have any recommendations for Bead Release just NOT holding to the mandrel? i fond i'd not gotten PREPPED mandrels from the kit i ordered (not on them but on me for not thinking ahead) so i cleaned and scuffed em up a fair bit (likely gonna scuff more just gotta dig out my sand paper) but it's like the bead release was just blasting off from the torch if i got it too close, but also the glass wasn't sticking and when it DID it took the release clean off the mandrel any advice would be great, i don't want to NOT do this, it's got me in it's warm throat hold

[kyoshisimp]

This is outside of my usual lurking around fandoms, but I started taking lampworking classes. The first 2 were done with help from my instructor and the rest are solo...yeah you can really tell 😬

Funny thing about the last one (the Marias): this one was my first attempt, while the others I made for practice were complete disasters. Could not tell you how that happens except beginner's luck. Also my friends asked if they were anal beads, so that was fun lol.

[peacharcades]

hollow knight

[rederiswrites]

Only got in a couple tries, so I'm sure I can improve, but here's @zooarchaeologyatdinner 's photo of la Tene (or maybe Halstatt) era rams head beads:

And here are mine from yesterday:

Not too bad; not too bad.

[glassblessu]

Glass Apples🍎🍏

[sensitiveaangel]

polypore candelabra by me.

a tree trunk with candle-supporting mushrooms growing out of it.

made of borosilicate glass at the torch. 2024.

[girlofindustry]

Figa charm with a snake and a golden apple charm.

Available today.

[what-even-is-sleep]

I MADE A THING!!!!!!!!!

[dotsz]

some wonky glass pendants I made :)

[beetleboyart]

WIP

Working on a gift for my partner. I’ve not worked a lot with solid sculpting in boro, so this has been a fun challenge!

[indolentjellyfish]

my dude;

i bought one of your sea slugs maybe a year and a half ago and it literally inspired me to take up lampworking

after a year of getting less shit, i think i am good enough to try and imitate one of your sea slugs (not for sale! just for me ☺️)

do you have any tips? and do i have your permission to basically copy your idea

thank you

That's wonderful to hear! You have my permission but only if I get to see it c:

As for tips you probably already know the most important thing is to keep it equally hot as you work on it, as hot as you can just before the glass changes shape gives you the most time to put on details.

To make a sea slug I melt a rod to get a mass of glass, make a rough body shape, attach a pointed clear glass rod on the opposite end as the punty, add on the design of the body and shape some more, then add the "tail" and "ears" and finally heat up long metal tweezers to hold onto it and then melt the punty off and stick it directly into a hot kiln. You could also let it cool down and aneal it later.

The easiest glass to work with are transparent colours, opaque glass melts really fast and loses details quickly while semi-opaque or milky glass shocks and cracks really easy while having a smaller window of time to work with. Using a colour like blue, green, or black will let you see the orange heat in the glass so you can better judge how cold it is getting, clear makes it more difficult to see the heat.

And the real most important thing is to make sure you are wearing an apron, glasses, and have proper ventilation, you don't want to breathe in heavy metals or get nasty burns on your torso, trust me.

Please let me see your creations when they are done! Glass is a really tricky medium but as with anything, repetition and thinking of your moves ahead of time makes it doable. If you have any more questions I'd be glad to share what I've learned so far.