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wickedglass In reply to BellaRadiation [2012-03-08 13:10:45 +0000 UTC]

Hi Bella,
my U.S rep for marbles is here [link] .

Pendants of the gold and silver fume style, though, go for (depending on size, of course) $50-$60 + shipping.

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wickedglass In reply to nappingartist [2011-08-19 00:45:29 +0000 UTC]

me tooooooo

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wickedglass In reply to Hippopottermiss [2010-08-22 23:17:41 +0000 UTC]

thanks, and your stuff is really cool, especially the nudibranch!!!

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Hippopottermiss In reply to wickedglass [2010-09-28 17:11:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot

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wickedglass In reply to Athalour [2010-08-08 14:52:06 +0000 UTC]

thanks Athalour. Aquatic influences always find their way into my work ... both my gf and I are scuba junkies and try to go on a series of dives wherever we are in the world, provided there's a piece of ocean available. At the time I was making these, I was looking at a lot of images of coral, brain structures (and other internal organs), termite nests, convoluted roadways and medieval mazes. I'm actually very drawn to natural/organic patterns where similarities, as opposed to sameness, provide repetitive elements.

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Athalour In reply to wickedglass [2010-08-13 17:11:46 +0000 UTC]

How amazing! That's really awesome. And so cool to get some insight into the creative process.

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wickedglass In reply to JadeHades [2010-08-08 14:43:47 +0000 UTC]

hi JadeHades, these were about 35mm in diameter

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wickedglass In reply to SpamDragon [2010-08-05 10:45:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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wickedglass In reply to metranisome [2010-08-05 10:43:55 +0000 UTC]

hi and thanks for looking and taking the time to comment. The initial step is to take a section of glass tubing, closed on the end, somewhat like a test tube. This is then warmed up in the flame and I fume different parts of the tubing with pure silver or gold. This means I evaporate the metal in the bottom of the flame and I have the glass further up the flame. The metal precipitates onto the glass. Gold will give you reddish and greenish hues and the silver will give you yellowish/whitish to blueish hues. The nice colour fades happen when the silver and blue overlap. Then I take some thin rod of clear glass and draw on the design, melt it in, thicken up the tube and flatten the end. Then I separate the flat part from the tube and flip it, so that what was formerly the inside of the tube now becomes the outside. I heat some more to allow the design to penetrate deeper into the glass (tech term is "implosion") and form a sphere. I use black glass to back the whole thing, because fumed designs show up a lot better on a dark background.
Hope that helps.

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