Artists On The Forum? [lots of pictures]

[Janetda]

4113 and the mermaids are cool. Especially 4113. Love the airtraps. I'm currently working on human form, but off mandrel, with tubing. It's hard. Hardest part, imo, is proportion.

I really like 4113 too, but non-glass people don't really get it. I hate mermaids, but people like them. I've done some cool off mandrel pendants and implosions too, I just haven't done photos. I really love your honeycomb.

I'd love to do more boro, but my set-up just won't do it. I need another oxy-con. I can melt the stuff (slowly), but I can't strike many of the colors. Of course, striking colors are the coolest!

 

[Janetda]

OMG Lab, I LOVE Jeff!!

 

[Lab]

i did that one in 9th grade for art class.. teacher gave me a C since i turned it in a day late.. entered it in college level art show and won best of show..

I have a lot more work out there.. did tat designs for awhile and sold them to shops.. also had over 100 drawings stolen when my house was robed once.. after that I started taking photos of them..

 

[shatner]

thanks.. i sent you another message..

i wish i had some of my old work I had a friend that lived with me that blew glass and I drew him a bunch of designs to make into bowls.. had one for years that looked like a veiled chameleon,, the bowl piece was the top of its head, mouth was the carb, and tail coiled a few times and was mouth piece

That sounds cool. I'm starting to steer the sculpture route with my pipework at this point.

I really like 4113 too, but non-glass people don't really get it. I hate mermaids, but people like them. I've done some cool off mandrel pendants and implosions too, I just haven't done photos. I really love your honeycomb.

Thanks. Those are the

I'd love to do more boro, but my set-up just won't do it. I need another oxy-con. I can melt the stuff (slowly), but I can't strike many of the colors. Of course, striking colors are the coolest!

Thanks for the compliments on the honeycombs. Those are the 3 nicest I've made, yet.

I remember the days of a small torch. Yeah, boro can take forever to get moving. Now I'm on a GTT Mirage and can melt 55mm heavy tubing in no time. But we make totally different stuff, so that's moot.

And I do love me some striking colors. Blue Moon is a nice striking color. Actually, all three of those 'combs are Blue Moon. The first pendant is reduced a bit and fumed with gold. The more green one was kept in a more oxy flame, no fume. Then there's the amber/purple family. Another favorite.

Striking colors are pretty new to Moretti, correct? I think you work Moretti

 

[Janetda]

Yeah, Morretti mostly. But they are really developing a lot of nice silver glasses these days in soft glass. I frigg'n LOVE me some amber purples! I would totally do pipes if I could. You know, there's an old saying that you can't make a living in glass unless you make pipes! LOL!

 

[Janetda]

i did that one in 9th grade for art class.. teacher gave me a C since i turned it in a day late.. entered it in college level art show and won best of show..

I have a lot more work out there.. did tat designs for awhile and sold them to shops.. also had over 100 drawings stolen when my house was robed once.. after that I started taking photos of them..

I absolutely LOVE tattoo art. Call me poor white trash if you want, but tattoo art is some of my favorite kind of art.

 

[Lab]

the tat art was so much easier to sell.. did not get as much for piece but time involved was a lot less..

 

[shatner]

Yeah, Morretti mostly. But they are really developing a lot of nice silver glasses these days in soft glass. I frigg'n LOVE me some amber purples! I would totally do pipes if I could. You know, there's an old saying that you can't make a living in glass unless you make pipes! LOL!

There are so many damn "pipemakers", or people that want to call themselves that, that you really have to be a head of the curve if you want to make a living off it. I've been making more money with jewelry lately. But I've found a little niche.

 

[Lab]

i remember when glass pipes where 15-20 each now you can get them in gas stations around here for 5..

you should try to pull off a few of those honeycomb patterns make them like a paper weight and put a indent in them to hold a ecig and sell them on here as e-cig holders..

 

[Mac]

Do photomanipulations count?

Sucked into a computer by ~MorbidMac on deviantART

 

[Janetda]

Ab-so-lutely!

 

[leannebug]

wow.. love the lampwork! The honeycomb is beautiful. I have bookmarked the thread to go through all the albums posted!

I'm a huge fan of art, and often incorporate others artwork into my own. I dabble in everything; photography, drawing, textiles, paper, etc.

a recent project here (I made for a fellow vaper)

 

[redrhino]

Very nice stuff everyone......Very impressive work by some of you guys

 

[shatner]

i remember when glass pipes where 15-20 each now you can get them in gas stations around here for 5..

you should try to pull off a few of those honeycomb patterns make them like a paper weight and put a indent in them to hold a ecig and sell them on here as e-cig holders..

Yeah, those $5 pieces you see at gas stations? I'm talking child labor sweatshop import pieces from china/india/malaysia/thailand. No joke! And, since they cant import pipes, they are just shaped. No holes popped in the flame as they should be. The holes are all drilled after they pass customs and the glass dust is rarely rinsed out. So for the uninformed, on their ritualistic breaking in of their new piece, they get a lung full of Silicosis. Look it up. It's nasty. Not to mention the stress that drilling glass effectively 'un-anneals' the piece. First time it's dropped it's gone. I give every 1 in 5 of my simple one piece prodo the 'drop test'. The drop test is dropping a piece from waist height, standing (I'm 5'8") onto my studio's concrete floor. They just bounce. I don't think I've had one break in about 4 or 5 years.

I am in no way joking about imports being a threat to health. And that's not even taking into account how it screws us US pipers. In fact, to us US pipers, it's a serious threat. I can't compete with those prices. AT ALL! If you're going to make it as a pipemaker you have to stay ahead of the curve. Your work needs to stand out on a store's shelf among other pieces. I speak of prodo (production, the money makers) in this case.

In Houstonthere aren't many other blowers besides the guys at a local shop busting prodo all day and my apprentice.

And about selling on here, I've already got a slap on the wrist and a 'point' from Elindil for even mentioning selling through my etsy site. Although I did have my etsy store link in my sig, which is against the rules. And I don't want a Vendor Account. Too much hastle. I'm already trying to fit 25 hours into a 24 hour day. That is when I'm not sick.

Good idea, though. I can make jars and bottles and you can just happen to find them elsewhere when I start selling through a well respeted vendor I've contacted.

 

[Lab]

yeah the pieces i had where all designed on paper by me.. i dropped them so many times and they never broke.. bought one of the cheap ones one day when i was out of town and did not have one of mine.. it broke the first time it fell from 2 feet..

one i had the police gave it back to me and said this thing is too nice for me to tell you to shatter it..

and it was the same here.. my friend was the only one making pieces that did not look identical to all the others out there.. i got him doing a bunch of functional sculpture pieces.. think the first was a gator since it was one of the simpler designs i gave him to try. would hear a lot of cussing when it came time to put legs on...

 

[Janetda]

LeanneBug, Love the bags! Especially the second set!

Shatner, if you think the import pipes bad, you should see the beads!

 

[leannebug]

Thank you

I gave the ecig bag as a gift on the Pay-It-Forward. Today I'm working on one for the local Cancer Relay for Life that is this weekend. Gotta get it finished! Then I have another couple PIF bags to do I want one!

Great stuff on this thread... I love love love all the art The music, the poetry, the lampwork, the painting, the drawings, it's all beautiful. Very talented bunch!!

 

[Mac]

The Strict 9 mind by ~MorbidMac on deviantART
Here is a wicked cool morph I made using photoshop and morpheus..

 

[shatner]

wow.. love the lampwork! The honeycomb is beautiful. I have bookmarked the thread to go through all the albums posted!

I'm a huge fan of art, and often incorporate others artwork into my own. I dabble in everything; photography, drawing, textiles, paper, etc.

a recent project here (I made for a fellow vaper)

Thanks for the compliments. It really does mean a lot to hear people like my work.

yeah the pieces i had where all designed on paper by me.. i dropped them so many times and they never broke.. bought one of the cheap ones one day when i was out of town and did not have one of mine.. it broke the first time it fell from 2 feet..

one i had the police gave it back to me and said this thing is too nice for me to tell you to shatter it..

and it was the same here.. my friend was the only one making pieces that did not look identical to all the others out there.. i got him doing a bunch of functional sculpture pieces.. think the first was a gator since it was one of the simpler designs i gave him to try. would hear a lot of cussing when it came time to put legs on...

Hehe. I cuss like a sailor when the Glass Gods are frowning upon me. At least I don't have neighbors right now. The house next door is for sale.

 

[Lab]

well from what it sounded like. guess you need to slowly heat the body to the same heat as you are using to attach the legs.. the chameleon piece he made me pay him $40 for he made another close to it and sold it for $250