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Portrait of the Artist as a Newbie Lampworker
This entry was posted on 4/21/2006 9:09 PM and is filed under Daily Musings.
Wednesday, April 19 2006
I am obsessed with COLOR. I am obsessed with GLASS. I am obsessed with BEADS. I have gathered (pun intended) all these obsessions together into one..........LAMPWORK. And, I added a new one for good measure.......FIRE. This blog is a journal of my adventures with glass and torch to become an expert lampworker. Come along for the ride. It will be bumpy. Lampwork is not a skill I can pick up in a few days, or a few weeks, or a few months. I started roughly six months ago and I can at last make a decently shaped bead with smooth, if not puckered, holes. I know, PPP (Practice, Practice, Practice or Practice, Patience, Perseverance)
These are some of my first beads that were not drowned at birth but should have been. I kept them because i hoped to see vast improvement soon. Sigh!
It is a wonder I continued but I had just read Cindy Jenkins book and she made it look so easy I thought I could just whip out gorgeous beads in no time. How wrong I was.
I am obsessed with COLOR. I am obsessed with GLASS. I am obsessed with BEADS. I have gathered (pun intended) all these obsessions together into one..........LAMPWORK. And, I added a new one for good measure.......FIRE. This blog is a journal of my adventures with glass and torch to become an expert lampworker. Come along for the ride. It will be bumpy. Lampwork is not a skill I can pick up in a few days, or a few weeks, or a few months. I started roughly six months ago and I can at last make a decently shaped bead with smooth, if not puckered, holes. I know, PPP (Practice, Practice, Practice or Practice, Patience, Perseverance)
These are some of my first beads that were not drowned at birth but should have been. I kept them because i hoped to see vast improvement soon. Sigh!
It is a wonder I continued but I had just read Cindy Jenkins book and she made it look so easy I thought I could just whip out gorgeous beads in no time. How wrong I was.