triangles

Playing with glass again, while I have a little down time- today's influence triangles!

more drawing on glass/in glass

Sister Moon

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When less is more

My usual style is to pile as many colors, textures and patterns into a piece as possible. I am trying something quieter



Glass paint, frit, bullseye glass, and patience....




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Who does she think she is?

I watched a really good movie last night Who does she think she is? it follows five women artists whom are also mothers and the joys and struggles they go through. I had want to see this movie since it came out in 2008. One of my big memories from graduate school was being told regularly that I could not make it as an artist and a mother. I guess I don't know what making it really means.

But I am still playing....








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Glass painting/fusing

Oh I love being an artist! Wear my heart out on my sleeve...

This is the process...









Start with a depressing (or perhaps happy) picture of yourself, sketch from photo or mirror than redraw simplified in glass, I use glassline...


Start glueing bits of glass down



Into the kiln



Her skin color and shirt are covered in glass frit this is the reverse of ultimate piece....




And we have failure! Well maybe not completely I am thinking that the sides pushed in because there was not enough glass on top. I piled on more brown frit and put an off white piece of glass behind it and back into the kiln it went. It will deform even more- I have no idea what will happen and I won't be able to check on it for at least 12 hours. So I will wait ....

Unpredictable magic

I started making these last fall when my oldest daughter was in the hospital, making these helped me get through it, though in the end I did not know what would happen with them. I have some other difficult things going on right now and I am back to making these, little prayers hoping for a milagro........











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Niki de Saint-Phalle

Going through paper work and other stuff so..... I thought I would look at yet another favorite artist!















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Great goddess of love

Back to the portrait she change a LOT from what I thought she was going to be....still in progress

the first step

Cut the plates and dishes up

begin....

thinking about portraits

Its been a busy week, and HOT! we finally had some cooler air move in last night so I slept well sort of.. I woke up at three am not because of my skin sticking to it self but because its time to do a portrait again. it won't be a portrait of a real person but a combination of people. I love the way Alice Neel does portraits, love her color use and the way you can really feel their characters. So while my portrait will be made out of glass, tile and found objects I will hopefully learn something from looking at Alice Neel's work.