HensleyArtglass
2008-03-27, 10:18pm
Animal#1 \\:D/
Elephant
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1
First make a gather about 3/4 inch on samll diameter clear or color rod and let it fall until it droops down but still remains round (this becomes the body)
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2
Let that gather cool until it no longer moves and then add four legs away from the handle (making the front legs a little longer than the back makes it look happier in the end i'm not sure why.) Add the legs by taking a rod of clear or color heating it white hot and attaching it to a small spot where a leg should be pull the rod to the thickness you want using your hands or gravity and melt them it off. Repeat four times and melt them off or add some to make the left and right legs even to each other and the back legs slightly shorter than the back if you want a half sitting elephant.
115667
3
Punty up to it inbetween the legs if you've left enough room if not then on a leg then melt off the clear or color rod you used to make the body leaving enought to melt into a round head. Eyeball the size of the head making sure it's just not too big so the elephant doesn't fall on its face it should be lie 2/5 of the body size.
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4
Heat up the head and a glass rod up then make a nice hot bond on the front part of the head closer to the top a bit than the bottom. Let that cool just a little then stretch the glass down first to make the shape of the head elongate slightly and to stretch the trunk out. Then quickly pull upward and curve the tip slightly so the trunk reaches up. It may sound wierd but once you do it you'll see it makes a trunk shape. (leaving the trunk reaching up makes the sculptures lucky so I'm told)
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5
The tail is a small pull of clear or color on the but toward the bottom of the feet leaving slightly more color on the end so it has a small "tuft."
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6
For the ears leave two small equal size lumps of clear or color on opposite sides of the top of the head then flatten them with tweesers or pliers usually. Then fold them slightly forward or back to give them a lifelike non mouse ear look.
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Animal #2
Pig
1
Follow steps 1-3 of the elephant tutorial i know i'm cheating
4
Add a tail by getting a gather nice and hot and then attaching it to the but. Pull while still hot and rotate as it cools clockwise or counter-clockwise putting tension in the opposite direction of the rotation. This make a little swirly tail. The bonds direction indicates the tail direction happy tails point up.
5
The ears are made by attaching on one side of the head in the smallest point you can manage then pulling out and folding back on itself. Touch the fold to the head again then pull up slightly then to the forward of the pig to make a cute little ear. Pull into the flame for a more pointed ear. Then repeat on the other side
6
The nose is a small gather on the front tip of the head which you heat then smash with a paddle taking care to not heat the main head too much so theres a lip.
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Bonus* Rose
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1
Make a gather to be the rosebud of any color you want i used light elvis red
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2
Fuse the gather to a rod of clear (or color) making the fuse the size of the stem you want to make
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3
Make the stem by heating up roughly an inch to a good red color but not white hot so it has some resistance. Then slowly pull and move the clear rod up and down and if you have to pushing slightly to get a good stem shape and try to end up with the clear rod pointing away from the rosebud so it is a good handle
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4
melt off the colored rod using the clear rod attached to the stem you just made as leverage. Then heat the tip or the rosebud red hot and use pliers or tweesers to twist the end to make it look like a rosebud.
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5
Add three thorns one one each side and one on what you want to be the front. Do this by heating a green rod well and just touching it to right under the rosebud on the clear and pulling down. Then add one leaf on each side by touching the green to a side pulling away and folding the rod on itself (once or twice) to give it a veiny leaf look. Let it cool slightly and pull the tip of the leaf into the flame for a point when seperating it from the rod.
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6
Add three or four thorns down the length of the rest of the stem
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7
Seperate the stem form the clear handle rod by holding it with pliers or tweesers and add finishing touches.
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For a fun twist try giving the pigs (or the elephant) wings which I can explain if needed or changing the legs around on the elephant then putting it on a ball and/or platform to make a circus elephant.
I will add more like the penguin and maybe a mouse soon.
Have fun! :koolaid:
Sincerely,
Austin Hensley
Elephant
115665
1
First make a gather about 3/4 inch on samll diameter clear or color rod and let it fall until it droops down but still remains round (this becomes the body)
115666
2
Let that gather cool until it no longer moves and then add four legs away from the handle (making the front legs a little longer than the back makes it look happier in the end i'm not sure why.) Add the legs by taking a rod of clear or color heating it white hot and attaching it to a small spot where a leg should be pull the rod to the thickness you want using your hands or gravity and melt them it off. Repeat four times and melt them off or add some to make the left and right legs even to each other and the back legs slightly shorter than the back if you want a half sitting elephant.
115667
3
Punty up to it inbetween the legs if you've left enough room if not then on a leg then melt off the clear or color rod you used to make the body leaving enought to melt into a round head. Eyeball the size of the head making sure it's just not too big so the elephant doesn't fall on its face it should be lie 2/5 of the body size.
115668
4
Heat up the head and a glass rod up then make a nice hot bond on the front part of the head closer to the top a bit than the bottom. Let that cool just a little then stretch the glass down first to make the shape of the head elongate slightly and to stretch the trunk out. Then quickly pull upward and curve the tip slightly so the trunk reaches up. It may sound wierd but once you do it you'll see it makes a trunk shape. (leaving the trunk reaching up makes the sculptures lucky so I'm told)
115669
5
The tail is a small pull of clear or color on the but toward the bottom of the feet leaving slightly more color on the end so it has a small "tuft."
115670
6
For the ears leave two small equal size lumps of clear or color on opposite sides of the top of the head then flatten them with tweesers or pliers usually. Then fold them slightly forward or back to give them a lifelike non mouse ear look.
115672
Animal #2
Pig
1
Follow steps 1-3 of the elephant tutorial i know i'm cheating
4
Add a tail by getting a gather nice and hot and then attaching it to the but. Pull while still hot and rotate as it cools clockwise or counter-clockwise putting tension in the opposite direction of the rotation. This make a little swirly tail. The bonds direction indicates the tail direction happy tails point up.
5
The ears are made by attaching on one side of the head in the smallest point you can manage then pulling out and folding back on itself. Touch the fold to the head again then pull up slightly then to the forward of the pig to make a cute little ear. Pull into the flame for a more pointed ear. Then repeat on the other side
6
The nose is a small gather on the front tip of the head which you heat then smash with a paddle taking care to not heat the main head too much so theres a lip.
115674
Bonus* Rose
115675
1
Make a gather to be the rosebud of any color you want i used light elvis red
115676
2
Fuse the gather to a rod of clear (or color) making the fuse the size of the stem you want to make
115677
3
Make the stem by heating up roughly an inch to a good red color but not white hot so it has some resistance. Then slowly pull and move the clear rod up and down and if you have to pushing slightly to get a good stem shape and try to end up with the clear rod pointing away from the rosebud so it is a good handle
115678
4
melt off the colored rod using the clear rod attached to the stem you just made as leverage. Then heat the tip or the rosebud red hot and use pliers or tweesers to twist the end to make it look like a rosebud.
115679
5
Add three thorns one one each side and one on what you want to be the front. Do this by heating a green rod well and just touching it to right under the rosebud on the clear and pulling down. Then add one leaf on each side by touching the green to a side pulling away and folding the rod on itself (once or twice) to give it a veiny leaf look. Let it cool slightly and pull the tip of the leaf into the flame for a point when seperating it from the rod.
115680
6
Add three or four thorns down the length of the rest of the stem
115681
7
Seperate the stem form the clear handle rod by holding it with pliers or tweesers and add finishing touches.
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For a fun twist try giving the pigs (or the elephant) wings which I can explain if needed or changing the legs around on the elephant then putting it on a ball and/or platform to make a circus elephant.
I will add more like the penguin and maybe a mouse soon.
Have fun! :koolaid:
Sincerely,
Austin Hensley