Takin' pictures: Randy Strong Glass

[gurdymonkey]

Now, I have to tell you that art glass is generally Not My Thing. Pottery, yes. If I had more hours in my life, I'd even maybe like to learn it, but art glass, not so much. So when Randy Strong started shoving pipes into ovens at his studio this afternoon and announced, "Wanna see me make something ugly?" I asked permission to take pictures and shot a bunch of him working with his assistant Brendan Dreaper on an odd, art-glass take on a witch ball.









The whole set is at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/sets/72157628284627189/with/6457415151/

Comments

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Ball... leaves on ball.... weird handle on ball... additions to handle.... polishing etc... and what does it look like in the end?

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Sort of like a glass version of a golden snitch with a big ropy handle on top. They hustled it into the cooling box before I could get a decent shot of the finished version.