Two Artist’s fighting.

Did you ever hear the story about the competition between Michelangelo and Leonardo Divinci? 
You can read it here ~ Leonardo vs. Michelangelo:
It has been said that Leonardo accused Michelangelo of not being a real Artist because he sculpts; only painting is art?!
Then, the talented Leonardo (hippocrate) was seen sculpting.
HA! (karma. you know he felt [...]

Schott cryatal paper weight with PEOPLE murrini

Those one of a kind running man murrini, and people murrini made into a paper weight I am really happy with.
Encased, and imploded murrini.  I learned borosilicate implosion work in August 2006. I have been practicing ever since. In September 2006, I studied with Loren stump, learning how to use Schott crystal. (Schott crystal is [...]

the kiln is FIXED and nEW post at WMC

Thanks to the glasshive MY KILN IS FIXED FOR FREE! WA HOO!  I fixed it all by myself! I didn’t even have to call sparkie (my electrician)…; he will be proud!
And, I have a new post at WMC! Check it…
 

 

Bead and button ~ HUGE BEAD ARTIST sculptor SHOW 2008

 
What is it like to be at a HUGE bead show? No pictures ….LOTS OF WORDS
Honestly, the beads were great! And! What people do with beads is awesome too!
SO MUCH TALENT in the Glass bead world. People are making little sculptures that are priceless.  It is really hard to put a price [...]

Sketch of a bead with a YIN YANG

While I was addicted to making GLASS DZI beads for a couple months this past winter…Yin Yang symbols were in the back of my head. All the dots, and masking techniques with glass are amazing! You can heat a spot up, and pull it over to create a hook…lots of detail can be achieved. This [...]

New! At the Etsy Spot…

 
My new murrini beads were happily welcomed into the bead world at this past B & B show.  This is one;  I put it for sale in my Etsy shop  :)
 

Etsy spot! LOL! See Angilina’s Etsy spot! (I thought that was a cute name for it

Watch me create Running man murruni

The ‘running man’ is one of my favorite murrinies ever! is made with three pulls. (a “pull” is what you do. You make a large form, and heat it, and “pull” it down to length. Like a cinomon roll; you get multiples of the same thing.)  The first two pulls made up the body parts, and [...]