Blue snake

Snek!

That rock took some DOING. It's foam with about four layers of paint on it.

Blue snake--in progress

Jan-Feb '19. snek had to be propped up in order to paint and glue it. Natural bark left unpainted. The idea is it's shedding a skin to reveal the glass scales. I do a lot of sneks. Wood lends itself to the shape, funnily enough.

Propped up on a convenient piece of wood

Now on a box of Van Gogh glass, and duct taped

Moon

It's intended to be looked at in the center of a room, so it can be walked around.

Left side--glass

Right side--shell

What it looks like head on

Moon--in progress

Dec 18-Jan 19
Laying out the glass/shell first to see how it would look, then having a lot of trouble getting the pieces to stay together long enough for it to dry.

Glass, just looks like shell

Held down with a heavy-duty clamp

just straight up duct taped it

#ShutDownDC

I feel like this isn't getting a lot of coverage in my area of the internet, but we did in fact shut down DC via gridlock on the 23rd in protest of climate change.

Original Three

And here's how they turned out!

Waterfall

Fire nightlight--unlit

Fire nightlight--lit

Honestly the geode picture from before can't be beat.

(Yes, I'm aware this was not a week later. I'm testing to see if I can automate my connection with Tumblr.)

Intro to glass art

So it's a pain in the ass to get photos off my phone so I can blog them, and the app costs money, but I'm finally getting around to it.

If you've been following me, which I doubt, then you already know I have my hands in all sorts of art pies. For the last year, I've been making glass and wood art.

I had this idea seven years ago or so when I read a Harry Potter fanfic in which Harry was a carpenter in another universe, and he made art with wood and glass and ran a little shop and was happy as a clam. And every time I reread this fanfic, I'd think, that would be so cool! I'd love to run that shop! And one day in October of 2018, I said, screw it, I've been having this thought for six years now, why don't I just do it? Back then I was still working part time. So on one of my days off, I went to Michael's looking for driftwood, and then to Hobby Lobby when they didn't have any. First time in a Hobby Lobby. Completely unintentionally dressed as Draco Malfoy. Anyway, I picked up some shell and glass stuff, and some glue, and ordered my wood off Etsy because I couldn't find a local shop that would sell it.

(No, I can't just pick it up off the ground myself. You have to treat it so it doesn't mold or bring in bugs.)

So, flashback to some of the in-progress photos. I really wanted to make a waterfall; the others were just sort of 'because I had the wood.'

Waterfall in progress

Fire nightlight

Geode

I'm thinking to set these up to post once a week. That should take awhile.