Art Talk: Learning to blow glass

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

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Here is our teacher, Ethan, marvering and blowing a piece.

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:

#1 Caterpillar		#2 Snowman

Colored glass

#3 Green duck		#4 rainbow fish

#5 and #6 Blue and green flowers

#7 Yellow flower

Color inside glass

#8 and #9 and #10 Paperweights

#11 by first blown piece, a wonky cup that I use on a daily basis!

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.