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Post by jamesp on Mar 30, 2013 20:18:24 GMT -5
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Post by helens on Mar 31, 2013 0:05:49 GMT -5
No, thank YOU, James:). I haven't done whole sculpture in a few years... so I'm a bit rusty. I have done a lot of waterlily tho, so I knew that it was the best thing to send you for waterlily:P. The stem broke when I was packing for shipping... green glass is inherently unstable, probably from the mineral used to make it, so when I tore off the stems to redo, I decided to fully encase them in clear for strength. In photos it's pretty obvious:(... but not so much in person. This unfortunately overheated the petals on the flower a bit, so they pulled a bit out of line, but now it's more a freeform shape:P. The green glass in the leaves is no longer made, it was too complex... it's one of the most prized of all art glass, and I can't remember the entire name, but it was something 'moss', and I recall that the sparkle comes from ground green aventurine rock added to the glass at the time of manufacture. I don't have much of it left, but it's the absolute best waterlily leaf glass, because it looks like a wet leaf with the sun bouncing off it. The pink/red in the waterlily is partially colored from 24K gold. It's a rare glass also. I wish I had done a cleaner job to do justice to the glass I used, but at this size, it's much more impressive to the naked eye than in large photos... it SHOULD look like the Colorado you sent (the ones covered in biting Georgia ants!! LOL!)... I figure you sent me all you had because there were so many:P, so I had to send you back a reminder of them:P. James sent a MFRB full of lilies, coral, water plants. It's all planted, and when my pond clears up again, I'll try to get better shots, tho I should probably wait til the leaves grow some first, so there's more to see. This is his 2nd shipment, the first one of 3 lotus and about 12 small Colorado water lilies are growing beautifully, all with leaves now:). Bag of water plants (red taro, umbrella plants, venezuela poppies)  MORE florida coral, some that he tumbled already, and some botryoidal specimens!:  including this beauty!!  Three big Ben Gibson Lotus tubers (these are a big incredible pink):  A Wan Visa water lily plant:  And a bunch of tumbled corals that are easier to cab, plus some water lily seeds to try (which I somehow lost in my pond:()  I planted them into buckets and put in the pond, then started 2 smaller water garden tubs with 3 plants each (a waterlily, a lotus, and a water plant). James is such an enabler!! LOL! I haven't done any water plants in years and years... this has been so much fun. Thank YOU James!!! I get the feeling my backyard may soon be all little ponds when these all get bigger and need to be repotted:P. |
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Post by deedolce on Mar 31, 2013 0:11:26 GMT -5
WOw, rocks and plants! And that flower is beautiful Helen! You're an amazing artist with glass! I can't believe you can shape it and it's moltan!! At least rock stays put until you grind it away, lol.
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Post by helens on Mar 31, 2013 3:34:55 GMT -5
WOw, rocks and plants! And that flower is beautiful Helen! You're an amazing artist with glass! I can't believe you can shape it and it's moltan!! At least rock stays put until you grind it away, lol. Thanks Dee!!! Glad to see you on break, you haven't posted in a while:). |
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Post by jamesp on Mar 31, 2013 5:49:33 GMT -5
I knew that red glass is expensive Helen.I believe yellow is too.The red comes from gold making it expensive.I collect any red vintage glass i find.Red glass at craft stores is about all coated w/clear red dye.You rarely see red marbles,bottles,depression glass,chunk glass etc.If i see antique shop w/lots of glassware/bottles i will buy the red stuff if priced fair.
And i think yellow is colored by silver making it uncommon and expensive too.I know a lot of glass made in Jacksonville turns purple,i believe that is a high content on mangenese in the silica.
Waterlily glass,i see what you are saying about the wet look.The 'mica dust?' from the adventurine causes that i think.
The glass work looks challenging and requires high skill level.You hit this sculpture just right.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Mar 31, 2013 6:30:00 GMT -5
That sculpture is beautiful!!  |
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 31, 2013 9:38:02 GMT -5
Wow Helen, your glass art is something beautiful!.....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 21:49:22 GMT -5
I now pass Helen's "Lucky" baton. I am no longer the lucky one. You are Jim!
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Post by tntmom on Apr 1, 2013 21:56:07 GMT -5
Stunning glass sculpture Helen! Always a treat for me to see!!!!!
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Post by kk on Apr 1, 2013 22:37:48 GMT -5
Super sculpture you have gotten there. I know first hand how well Hellen does with her sculptures.
Got her mermaid and that thing is far to beautiful to be actually worn. Would never forgive myself if it actually broke.
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Post by helens on Apr 2, 2013 18:15:03 GMT -5
Thanks Randy, Mel, Scott, Krystee and Kurt:).
Glass is as strong, if not stronger, than most rocks (of the same thickness of course). If it's thick glass, although, tails and stems aren't very thick, they are much much less likely to break from impact than a rock of the same thickness. This because glass has no structural weakness if properly annealed, unlike rock, which have heated and cooled unevenly, and contain several different minerals which are not necessarily well blended.
I have dropped every single marble I've ever made on the concrete from 4' up at least once, because they like rolling out of my kiln. You should see me jumping around like a hotfoot when they roll out when I'm trying to get them INTO the kiln:). They are unscathed. If I drop a slab from that distance, it's going to be in pieces, and possibly true of a whole rock too. I am way more careful of my rocks than I am of my glass actually.
That's not to say that you should be winging the glass pieces at walls to test what I said, but they are much tougher than they look:).
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2013 23:47:07 GMT -5
I read an article about the strength of glass Helen.In a clean unscratched condition it can be about as resistant to a slow 'bend to break' force of any material on earth.But a slight scratch would reduce it's strength by order of thousands.
Your sculpture is amazing.
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Post by kk on Apr 3, 2013 6:43:10 GMT -5
No structural weakness?
How about that? Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps
Something Pink shared recently.
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xe-f4gokRBs?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Post by jamesp on Apr 3, 2013 7:59:11 GMT -5
How did you find such a high tech video created by Alabamans kk? That falls under oxy-moron:>I hope Helen will see it.Too funny.If Hollywood needs crazy or stupid they always recruit from the southeastern United States.....LOL VERY interesting
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2013 12:57:13 GMT -5
awesome!! High speed imagery is incredible.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 3, 2013 14:09:36 GMT -5
It is incredible video,high speed camera is wicked.
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Post by helens on Apr 3, 2013 21:01:18 GMT -5
How did you find such a high tech video created by Alabamans kk? That falls under oxy-moron:>I hope Helen will see it.Too funny.If Hollywood needs crazy or stupid they always recruit from the southeastern United States.....LOL VERY interesting LMAO!!! "If Hollywood needs crazy or stupid, they always recruit from the southeastern US" .... OMG... I don't know if that's true... but it sounds true to me... HAAAA!!! That is a phenomenal video Kurt!!! Thanks for sharing:). That's also the exact property behind Tempered Glass.... or a car windshield. You can kick, punch, smash, hit a car window with a hammer even, and your windshield will not likely break. It's why people drown in their cars, they cannot get electric windows open, given even 20 minutes of trying. HOWEVER, if you hit it at an impact point, with a VERY SMALL object.... best one being a glass marble (because for some bizarre reason, glass will break glass faster than any other material)... the WHOLE THING will shatter. Lifesaving tip if you are around flooded areas... keep a small glass marble in your car. This happened to me, when my son was about 5, he threw a small glass marble at a 8' tall tempered glass sliding glass door, with almost no pressure... and it shattered over a period of 15 minutes in slow motion... with bits still falling out a day later. This was the door that when cleaned, I would RUN into face first when accidentally closed (I exercise by SPRINTING through my house so I can justify weakening lung capacity by smoking on the porch)... hard enough to fall on my ass backwards:P. It happened way more than once, never broke. THAT's why we need the kiln... see that polariscope he used to see the glass stress in his glass drop? Once annealed, glass stops doing that... it's clear all the way through. That's the molecules laying down with no tension. The wonderful part of that video is that he visually shows you the science, way better than trying to explain it:). |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 3, 2013 22:46:38 GMT -5
Yep.Some subjects need such illustration.Fascinating subject our glass.I got my flower right here:>
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