One of my favorite artists is Dale Chihuly. I have been been a self proclaimed Chihuly Groupie for at least 6 years. Here is my Chihuly Groupie Collection.
At the end of October, when the weather cooled down in Arizona, I started a glass blowing class at the community center. We spent the first 4 weeks learned how to handle 2000+ degree molten glass.
Glass studio
Here is the glass blowing shop. You will notice a huge fan. Even though I picked the last class of the year it was still so hot.
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| The Glory Hole | The bench | Me-The Gaffer |
Here is our teacher, Ethan, marvering and blowing a piece.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jRiXwY4qyPA
My glass pieces
So the first four classes we were making glass objects, learning out to handle the molten glass. Sadly when we got to blowing I was sick and then in the hospital, so I only blew one time.
I love to see the my improvement!
Clear glass projects:
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|#1 Caterpillar|| #2 Snowman|
Colored glass
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|#3 Green duck||#4 rainbow fish|
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5 and #6 Blue and green flowers
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7 Yellow flower
Color inside glass
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8 and #9 and #10 Paperweights
11 by first blown piece, a wonky cup that I use on a daily basis!
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It was a great class. Would I take it again? I don't know. I really liked the stained glass class they offer at the community center and want to take that class again. It was super interesting to learn about glass blowing and I am super glad I did it.