Corning!

So I went to the Corning Glass Museum with my queerplatonic partner and it was very cool! All kinds of glass there: blown, lampworked, fused, stained. Part science museum, part history museum, part contemporary art. We even got to make our own glass flowers. Thinking to try this in miniature on the torch. Even got to see a celebrity--Janusz (pron. yah-noosh) Pozniak from Blown Away on Netflix! Pardon me while I just photobomb here.

These are glass knives hanging above a tiny town. It's about living under the threat of terror.

Glass and ceramic. It's about sleep.

Glass lynx from a Durer sketch.

These are *solar panels*

This dude came to teach at my local glass house last year!

Y'all this is a *family portrait*

Yes, this is made of glass.

Januz Pozniak in person!

This is an Earth Janusz made for the installation for the final episode.

They also had pieces from all the other contestants! This is Edgar

This is Deborah

This is the installation Deborah did for the last episode

Flowers--mine and the QPP's

Universe

Happiness is...looking up at the sky only to find the universe staring back at you

I'm taking a fused glass class at the local glass house. Here is my first completed piece (that wasn't a test)! Bullseye glass, full fused and sandblasted. No metal involved, despite appearances. Doesn't photograph well, but trust me, it's cool. Feb '20

Painted Angels: Raphael (in progress)

First two or three layers of paint

Original sketch

Body: A different guy I found on google images

Wings: Barn owl 

Feb '20

Happy 25th birthday to me tomorrow!

End of the World

I have no idea why this is called that. It's like when you're writing, and your character makes some decision that's not convenient for the plot, but you can't talk them out of it.

Uses the corner bits of several vases I destroyed to get at the glass. This is why I save my sharps bag even when I think there's no way I'll use this.

 Dec '19 - Feb '20

Painted Angels: Gabriel (complete)

#nomorewhiteangels

Painted Angels: Gabriel (in progress)

My first really neat angel! This is Gabe, he's gonna have mirror. Pictured are the original drawing and an in-progress paint job.
Body: Some guy I found on google images. I want to be really up front here that I have no drawing skills beyond 'fairly skinny person at a three-quarter angle.' Most of this non-abstract work is resized, manipulated, traced, carbon-transferred to canvas, and then painted. Which still means it doesn't look all that much like the original, but yeah.
Wings: Pigeon.
Dec '19 - Feb '20.

Painted Angels: Eagle wing

So strictly speaking this isn't an angel, it's an eagle, fresco. But I was doing the study of the eagle wing in order to figure out how to really do fresco for the angels, so...
All this shadow? Actual shadow because 3-D. No shadow-painting skill necessary. Nov-Dec. '19.