I have two taken with the camera's flash -- I'm on my sailboat right now. These were done a week ago before we our short trip. I did take one outside in the shade of the sail -- but the ones with the flash turned out better.
The first one I made the large ball of glass and followed the instructions (that I could remember!) Then the next one I wanted really bigger so I made a large glass ball and then started "painting" on more glass -- going from hole to hole -- really building up a large glob of glass which I then melted smooth. And followed the instructions from there. I like working off the mandrel -- having the glass hanging off the end -- there are more options working with the glass this way. I've done a lot of cutting of hot glass for my "trees" -- working my trees off the end of the mandrel is novel approached -- which I'll try when I get back to my darling torch! Next I'll blow the shards -- these arrowheads were made with frit on an ivory base.
This was the first one
This was the second one
