KaleidoScope: Our own gallery for members' art work, crafts and photographs.

Grinchy

@WelshBlue lovely artwork, and @Pandapaws very nice job,

Sandy_123

Lovely @Pandapaws love it
@WelshBlue look so real the oranges

Strawberry1

I hope it was okay to look at the drawings and photos here . They are all really very good . Just brilliant.  

Strawberry1

You are all very talented 👏 

Pandapaws

@Strawberry1 thanks so much! I’m lucky to be part of this group! So many lovely talented people 

Strawberry1

@Pandapaws , your very welcome 😊.  Hope you are ok 👍.  Sending good wishes to you 😊 

MarieBarl

@Strawberry1 you can look at my humble efforts any time. I'm in awe of the  others - there's some real skill our there.

Pandapaws

@Strawberry1 thanks so much for asking, I hope you have a wonderful weekend 

Pandapaws

Thank you @Sandy_123 hope you’re doing ok

Strawberry1

You are all so very talented.  Bravo you guys .

Roddy

Pandapaws said:

Here something I’ve been working on over the past week. It’s a chocolate Scottish fold. It was giving me panther vibes this is my first go at doing a mouth and tongue 👅 

Great work @Pandapaws. I've attached a pic of a lamp base I made for one of my Art Deco glass sculptures of a pair of panthers, and also a panther I designed & carved onto a glass panel... I used to be a glass-blower (before I became ill)  but I only still have a couple of vases that I made during that time as I sold all of the others many years ago now. I'll try to take a few pics of the ones I still have... 

  

Roddy

Many Thanks @Beaver79

Pandapaws

Wow! @Roddy that’s such a beautiful panther, I’m in total awe of your glass work. Thank you for the lovely compliment 

Roddy

@Pandapaws Thank you too for your words of kindness. I've never tired of working with glass in one way or another. People often ask me how a certain colour is produced for example, and so I'll soon be adding a pic of one of my own designed vases and will try to explain how I produced it as best I can.    

Pandapaws

@Roddy I look forward to seeing that 

Roddy

@Pandapaws Your wish has been answered :-)

Colouring glass is quite a difficult science to understand because not only can a single colouring agent or pigment (such as copper for example) produce different colours, certain atmospheric conditions will also affect the end results as will also the percentage of agent added to a molten batch of clear/non-coloured glass.  Many glass colour recipes can take years to develop & master and so without giving all of my own secrets away I'll give you an idea how I produced the iridescent glass vase as shown... The first procedure was to make the "millefiori" segment pieces which were eventually imbedded. These were made by grouping various coloured & shaped glass rods together and then melting them whilst stretching them out into one solid long length about the same thickness of a pencil. Once it was cooled down completely I then sliced/cut the glass into 1/2" segments in readiness to attach to the vase itself... The rose-coloured glass used to produce the vase was obtained by adding copper oxide. The glass was then blown & formed into the approximate shape, and the millefiori segments along with blue molten glass trailing were added before the vase had cooled. It was then returned to the furnace so that the additional pieces were fully embedded. The final size & shape of the vase was then blown & formed with hand-tools.  The final procedure of producing the iridescent finish is perhaps the most difficult to master, as the end result will not be known until the vase has cooled down completely over a time period of up to 10 hours or more inside an annealing oven. Furthermore, once the vase has cooled it cannot be re-heated or worked on again, and so unless it is OK it is destined for the bin!  The iridescent surface was obtained by spraying the hot glass with various metallic salts, some of which are very toxic to use and are governed by exact placement & heat control. Too hot or too cold will not obtain the end results, and so only many months of practice and costly trials & errors will eventually succeed in producing the wonderful multi-coloured hues of iridescence as are evident on this particular 10" diameter vase...     

Pandapaws

@Roddy that’s a beautiful vase too! I could
picture the process of this being made as I’ve watched a couple of programmes which was a series of glass blowing competitions, where they were set tasks of things to make. It was really fascinating to watch and see how the colours change etc, and the whole process. You can see how much hard work is involved physically 

Strawberry1

Some really hard work has gone into all of the beautiful photos of Artwork . Amazing 👏 

elaine02

Beautiful x

Grinchy

lovely vase, sounds really complicated, glad you have something that keeps you busy @Roddy