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The Amazing Cold Glass Sculptures of Jack Storms

The intense cold-glass process which can take up to 24 weeks for each contemporary glass sculpture to come to life begins at the heart of the design, by creating a core of lead crystal which is cut, polished and laminated creating reflective mirrors. When wrapped in optical glass, the refraction of light as it passes through the glass creates rainbows of hypnotic color. The drawn out process of repetitive cutting, grinding and polishing requires intense passion, rigid self discipline, and more blood sweat and tears than any artisan could wrap their mind around. The results, are mind boggling works of contemporary glass art.           Thanks zerostatereflex

Storms specializes in both geometric and representational glass sculptures. Some of his work can be figurative as well as abstract. Storms works with three different types of glass: optical crystal, lead crystal, and dichroic glass. He cuts and stacks slivers of dichroic glass and glues them with a special two part epoxy to achieve a “floating core look,” he then layers optic or crystal glass around the first structure, then hand sculpts it into a specific shape. It can take more than ten weeks to produce one piece. Storms’ work has been praised for demanding both artistic creativity and mathematical exactitude. He uses the Fibonacci theory at the core of every one of his designs

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The Beautiful Hand Blown Glass of David Patchen

I find glass as seductive as it is challenging. As a particularly unforgiving medium, an artist has endless creative opportunities to design for its unique properties—the only limitations are their imagination and skill in working with the material. I’ve always been captivated by how one can use this enigmatic material to achieve virtually any form, hold elements in suspension, and achieve great detail or soft abstraction. Its flexibility as a medium is matched by the difficulty it presents in using it to execute precise work.

My current work is an intensive exploration of patterns, colors and transparency created through multi-layered cane and murrine (colored rods and patterned cross-sections of glass). While varied in composition and design, I most often create work within a series of graceful forms that I consider three dimensional canvases. The diversity in my compositions reflects my desire to constantly experiment and explore a variety of ideas simultaneously. Some themes in my work include windows into or through a piece, things hidden & revealed and extreme detail. Colors in contrasting and/or complimentary tertiary tones woven into complex patterns challenge expectations of the amount of detail glass can carry and its place in the art world. My influences include textiles, ethnically distinct colors and shapes as well as the marine environment.

Creating my work begins with meticulous planning and designing of colors and patterns. After I pull the cane and murrine, I carefully compose these elements to design the final work, all days prior to blowing it. I enjoy this process of thoughtful creativity and the contrasting intensity of executing work in the hotshop, where the limited window to shape molten glass requires precision and urgency. The dual challenge of designing and executing complex work satisfies both the artist and the craftsman in me and I continually find it exciting to create a piece I’ve poured days over, watching it come to life in the fire.

Glass artist K. William LeQuier

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Ben Young

A Rotating Glass Sculpture Containing Four ‘Hidden’ Anamorphic Paintings [VIDEO]

Glass Marble Galaxy - love this idea for making a piece of custom art @Meredith Pena

Art Glass Vases by Michael Waysmith. FANTASTIC

Jade Color in Hand blown Glass

The jade collection calmly drifts towards aquatic formations by Bernard Katz Glass.

Autumn Leaves by Jacqueline McKinny. www.rowan-studios.com. Leaves can be found at the Pismo Galleries in Cherry Creek and Vail, Colorado. The Walnut Gallery in Louisville, Colorado and Kittrell Riffkind Art Glass in Dallas, Texas. 

Cglass | Crispian Heath - Seeds With Wings Series

Carnival - Lucio Bubacco

Every time I see this, I am just as impressed as the first time.  Beautiful!

Glass should be displayed with flat side toward front. According to Marchilac, the design was included in company catalogues from 1932-1937 and was not produced after 1947. Produced in five colors. Yvonne Brunhammer has suggested that the silver base may have been fabricated by Edgar Brandt. Flange of glass has been cut and ground down. Large chip on flange has also been ground and polished. Clock mechanism donated by David Weinstein is of the period, but not original to the piece. (via Le Jour et la Nuit (Day and Night) | Corning Museum of Glass)

Oh the color!

glass | David Goldhagen

glass | Jeffrey Pan