Lampwork Etc.
 
Mountain Glass Arts

LE Live Chat

Enter Live Chat

No users in chat


The Flow

Beads of Courage


 

Go Back   Lampwork Etc. > Library > Tutorials > Tutorials to purchase

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #61  
Old 2008-10-23, 8:11am
Wedhatted Wedhatted is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 15, 2008
Location: Near Regina SK
Posts: 70
Default

Loco, tell your husband thanks for me please.
I took him over to a friends, He was indeed well behaved. Today he is at work.

Aurore-Skiis, now there's a thought oooh, winter in mexico, I'm jealous.
Reply With Quote
  #62  
Old 2008-10-23, 6:03pm
loco's Avatar
loco loco is offline
The Crazy One
 
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Lococabana, OR
Posts: 7,008
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepinwelch View Post
I finally got over being sick long enough to torch for a few hours. I have to say the tutorial is FANTASTIC! It really has techniques that can be used to make so many things. My first two dragons came out of the kiln this morning and I am totally stoked! They look like I actually had a clue (which we all know I really don't). I will get pictures tonight and post them.
Thank you Loco! You have opened new doors for me.
Ummhumm Pictures! Please...
__________________
loco
Still crazy after all these years...
Reply With Quote
  #63  
Old 2008-10-23, 7:34pm
jeepinwelch's Avatar
jeepinwelch jeepinwelch is offline
Sucks at being nice
 
Join Date: Aug 18, 2006
Location: Black Forest, CO
Posts: 1,984
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by loco View Post
Ummhumm Pictures! Please...
Here they are...

Attachment 70642

Attachment 70643

Attachment 70644
__________________
"Every Child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Last edited by jeepinwelch; 2015-11-17 at 11:12am.
Reply With Quote
  #64  
Old 2008-10-23, 8:23pm
loco's Avatar
loco loco is offline
The Crazy One
 
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Lococabana, OR
Posts: 7,008
Default

Woooooooo Hoooooo GREAT looking dragons!
__________________
loco
Still crazy after all these years...
Reply With Quote
  #65  
Old 2008-10-23, 8:56pm
Bruna's Avatar
Bruna Bruna is offline
Ruebennesqueness Queenie
 
Join Date: Sep 03, 2005
Location: Hermosillo, Sonora. MX
Posts: 2,642
Default

Cool Dragons!!!
__________________
Don't make a priority out of someone who is only willing to make you an option...
GTT Bobcat and 5lpm Oxycon... lampworking since may 2005.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Giving
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
a try!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #66  
Old 2008-10-24, 6:05am
lonerp's Avatar
lonerp lonerp is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 03, 2008
Location: Denmark
Posts: 176
Default

Hi!
Loco, I absolutely adore your dragons and I would love to buy your tut. I am on a HH though, and have no kiln at home. Is it possible to make your dragons under these poor conditions?
Love Lone, Maarslet, Denmark
__________________
Lone Ringskaer, Aarhus, Denmark

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
R#115
Reply With Quote
  #67  
Old 2008-10-24, 7:18am
loco's Avatar
loco loco is offline
The Crazy One
 
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Lococabana, OR
Posts: 7,008
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by lonerp View Post
Hi!
Loco, I absolutely adore your dragons and I would love to buy your tut. I am on a HH though, and have no kiln at home. Is it possible to make your dragons under these poor conditions?
Love Lone, Maarslet, Denmark
Thank you so much! I have never worked on a HH, but I have seen some amazing sculptural work done on them (think Nikki!). As for not having a kiln... I know that ever thing I tried to do before I had a kiln, other than small beads, cracked... So I really don't think so. I'm sorry.

Is there anyone here that has had any luck sculpting without a kiln?
__________________
loco
Still crazy after all these years...
Reply With Quote
  #68  
Old 2008-10-24, 9:06am
Wedhatted Wedhatted is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 15, 2008
Location: Near Regina SK
Posts: 70
Default

ooooh, those are great!
Reply With Quote
  #69  
Old 2008-10-24, 9:24am
jeepinwelch's Avatar
jeepinwelch jeepinwelch is offline
Sucks at being nice
 
Join Date: Aug 18, 2006
Location: Black Forest, CO
Posts: 1,984
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wedhatted View Post
ooooh, those are great!
I like yours better! You were able to keep the parts a lot more defined and crisp.
__________________
"Every Child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #70  
Old 2008-10-24, 12:34pm
whimzicalities's Avatar
whimzicalities whimzicalities is offline
just another tool fool...
 
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Aliquippa, PA
Posts: 1,174
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by loco View Post
Thank you so much! I have never worked on a HH, but I have seen some amazing sculptural work done on them (think Nikki!). As for not having a kiln... I know that ever thing I tried to do before I had a kiln, other than small beads, cracked... So I really don't think so. I'm sorry.

Is there anyone here that has had any luck sculpting without a kiln?
Hey loco!

Kay did sculptural stuff that she "garaged" in a crock pot of vermiculite set on high to cool the beads. It was batch annealed at some point later. Her stuff was nowhere near as big as yours, but we rarely had any breakage. I think the key was flame annealing the pieces for some time, instead of pulling them out of the hottest part of the flame, looking for a couple of seconds, then sticking them in the crock pot. Also, our kiln ramp time was long and so was the soak time, so that may have had something to do with it. Your dragons are pretty huge, though, so I'm not sure how this would work here...maybe if someone made really small beads they could pull it off...

Great tut, by the way!! I haven't given it a shot yet, but hope to this weekend!
__________________
~~Maria~~

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


Click banner for my Etsy:

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #71  
Old 2008-10-24, 2:50pm
Reenie Reenie is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 08, 2006
Location: Palmdale, California
Posts: 7,589
Default

OMG You guys ROCK!!!
Wow. I hope my first time is as successful
__________________
Irene




To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #72  
Old 2008-10-24, 3:25pm
NLC Beads's Avatar
NLC Beads NLC Beads is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 01, 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,458
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by loco View Post
Thank you so much! I have never worked on a HH, but I have seen some amazing sculptural work done on them (think Nikki!). As for not having a kiln... I know that ever thing I tried to do before I had a kiln, other than small beads, cracked... So I really don't think so. I'm sorry.

Is there anyone here that has had any luck sculpting without a kiln?
Thanks for the shout-out. I batch annealed (ok, the Booger Bead Boot Camp batch annealed) until about 3 years ago when I got a kiln. As long as I did a thorough (but not surface melting) heating when I was done with teh bead before I tucked it into the fiber blanket, they survived. (Whoa... Hot Head AND batch annealed? I am so going to lampworker's hell!)

I had fish, sheep, cows, etc, all survive as long as I kept insurance heat while melting and a good reheat after I finished applying any details. I think the largest surviving sculptural bead was about an inch and a half tall - a cow body.
__________________


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
~:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
:~
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
~:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
:~ Nikki ~:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
:~

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
~:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
:~
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


"...living hopefully ever after..." -john lennon
Reply With Quote
  #73  
Old 2008-10-24, 3:50pm
Bruna's Avatar
Bruna Bruna is offline
Ruebennesqueness Queenie
 
Join Date: Sep 03, 2005
Location: Hermosillo, Sonora. MX
Posts: 2,642
Default

here's my first dragon. The second one is camera shy!

sorry for the bad pic, I took it with my celphone.
And I do have to say, this is one fun tut. great pics and wonderful instructions
__________________
Don't make a priority out of someone who is only willing to make you an option...
GTT Bobcat and 5lpm Oxycon... lampworking since may 2005.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Giving
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
a try!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #74  
Old 2008-10-24, 4:04pm
MaryBeth's Avatar
MaryBeth MaryBeth is offline
novembersfyre everywhere
 
Join Date: Jun 11, 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 3,833
Default

I like your dragons JeepinWelch - especially the first one!

Bruno - I like your dragon also! Very neat color combo!
__________________
Mary Beth


To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #75  
Old 2008-10-24, 5:09pm
loco's Avatar
loco loco is offline
The Crazy One
 
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Lococabana, OR
Posts: 7,008
Default

Bruna, Your dragon is WONDERFUL! I am thrilled that it appears the instructions are getting such great results. I tried my best to show EVERY step and then some. I'm sure its just that you all are a bunch of amazing artists! Keep the pictures coming, I love seeing all these babies!
__________________
loco
Still crazy after all these years...
Reply With Quote
  #76  
Old 2008-10-24, 7:31pm
Byrdbeads Byrdbeads is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 11, 2006
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 309
Default

Awwwww I love all your dragons!!!! Loco this is a great tutoral and love your sense of humor (or is it the voices..hmmmm LOL) !! I have printed it out and have read thru it a few hundred times and cant wait till I have time to torch all weekend to play and make some dragons.

Robyn
Reply With Quote
  #77  
Old 2008-10-25, 1:11pm
jeepinwelch's Avatar
jeepinwelch jeepinwelch is offline
Sucks at being nice
 
Join Date: Aug 18, 2006
Location: Black Forest, CO
Posts: 1,984
Default

Bruna that is so cute! I love the ears!
__________________
"Every Child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #78  
Old 2008-10-25, 11:23pm
Ellen Black's Avatar
Ellen Black Ellen Black is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 28, 2005
Location: Chicago area
Posts: 1,546
Default

Great Tutorial ! Thank you !
__________________
Ellen

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #79  
Old 2008-10-26, 1:42am
Bruna's Avatar
Bruna Bruna is offline
Ruebennesqueness Queenie
 
Join Date: Sep 03, 2005
Location: Hermosillo, Sonora. MX
Posts: 2,642
Default

Finally clear pics.
This is Petit, the little blue dragon.

followed by the red christmas dragon... holding a green ornament

now this one is scary. Before going into the kiln, it was a pretty dragonette. But, uhm... it got changed into a transvestite dragon with a nostril reduction and lip enhancement my sister named him... Denis

And last, this is "what's his name" ... I got the idea from a cartoon, where the dragon likes to make poems about an upside down cake. This one broke a toe, so he's in an italian boot bath, getting his feet cemented in polyresin so he'll stand on a pedestal at my mom's and never break a toe again.
__________________
Don't make a priority out of someone who is only willing to make you an option...
GTT Bobcat and 5lpm Oxycon... lampworking since may 2005.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Giving
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
a try!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #80  
Old 2008-10-26, 9:28am
Elleth's Avatar
Elleth Elleth is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 14, 2007
Location: Oregon
Posts: 513
Default

I love all of these Dragons...
Loco this is a great tutorial, so much fun to do!
This is my first dragon, I don’t have glass scissors so he needs a manicure and a pedicure, but all and all I think he is a gorgeous baby dragon.
__________________
~ Maggie ~

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #81  
Old 2008-10-26, 11:31am
Tutti-frutti Tutti-frutti is offline
Feuer,Flamme and Tattoo's
 
Join Date: Sep 11, 2005
Location: in the Liquid Sunshine State
Posts: 551
Default

Uh oh, I am glad I bought the tut. Now it's the waiting part that's hard to do....
Katja
I am really glad that you guys can make a dragon so quickly.
Reply With Quote
  #82  
Old 2008-10-27, 12:45pm
friskebaer's Avatar
friskebaer friskebaer is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 05, 2005
Location: I finally made it - Tucson!
Posts: 437
Default

Okay, here are my first 3 attempts at the dragon heads - no bodies yet - the voices told me not to! They are all boro:

My first try

My second try

#3

Jenny
__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #83  
Old 2008-10-27, 4:50pm
Bruna's Avatar
Bruna Bruna is offline
Ruebennesqueness Queenie
 
Join Date: Sep 03, 2005
Location: Hermosillo, Sonora. MX
Posts: 2,642
Default

wow, those heads re amazing! the colors!!!
__________________
Don't make a priority out of someone who is only willing to make you an option...
GTT Bobcat and 5lpm Oxycon... lampworking since may 2005.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Giving
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
a try!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #84  
Old 2008-10-28, 7:02am
friskebaer's Avatar
friskebaer friskebaer is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 05, 2005
Location: I finally made it - Tucson!
Posts: 437
Default

Thank you Bruna! I love boro!
Loco - your tutorial is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jenny
__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #85  
Old 2008-10-28, 10:06am
tiggybubba's Avatar
tiggybubba tiggybubba is offline
Gay rights R human rights
 
Join Date: May 06, 2006
Location: Squamish BC Canada
Posts: 2,719
Default

Its sold out!!!! WAH!
__________________
Leslie
"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."
Remember kiddies..."WRAP IT BEFORE YOU NAP IT!!!!



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
bravo torch with 2 ex20's
Reply With Quote
  #86  
Old 2008-10-28, 11:34am
loco's Avatar
loco loco is offline
The Crazy One
 
Join Date: Jun 05, 2005
Location: Lococabana, OR
Posts: 7,008
Default

Bruna, Diggin the dragons! Your transvestite dragon looks like it should be holding “something.” Bwhahahaha!!!!

Maggie, Great Job! I love the green you used, what color is it? Also PM me your addie and I’ll send you my small pair of scissors, I don’t use them often.

Jenny, Beautiful colors on beautiful dragons!

I am so thrilled that you all are doing a wonderful job with these dragons! Keep um coming, the world needs more dragons and gawd knows more smiles!
__________________
loco
Still crazy after all these years...
Reply With Quote
  #87  
Old 2008-10-28, 9:24pm
Elleth's Avatar
Elleth Elleth is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 14, 2007
Location: Oregon
Posts: 513
Default

Thank you Loco!

The color I used is Moretti Mosaic Green.

Unfortunately my dragon decided that this world was to much for him....he leapt off the shelf he was sitting on and shattered on the granite counter top below; it was a gruesome sight indeed!

I'm sure there will be more dragons in my future they are soooo much fun to make, and with your generous offer of the scissors they will have proper toes and fingers!

I will PM you with my addy.
__________________
~ Maggie ~

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #88  
Old 2008-10-29, 11:17am
Bruna's Avatar
Bruna Bruna is offline
Ruebennesqueness Queenie
 
Join Date: Sep 03, 2005
Location: Hermosillo, Sonora. MX
Posts: 2,642
Default

ah!! poor baby!!!
__________________
Don't make a priority out of someone who is only willing to make you an option...
GTT Bobcat and 5lpm Oxycon... lampworking since may 2005.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Giving
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
a try!
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #89  
Old 2008-10-29, 7:37pm
Wedhatted Wedhatted is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 15, 2008
Location: Near Regina SK
Posts: 70
Default

Oh no Maggie, that's horrible!
Reply With Quote
  #90  
Old 2008-10-30, 2:45pm
DustyJJ DustyJJ is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 27, 2005
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 455
Default

I think all the dragons are wonderful!
Thanks to loco for the wonderful tutorial, the humor and most of all for saying it's ok to play!
This is my first guy and he has loads of problems but he was fun to make. The next one will be better.. I hope. LOL!
I thought it was real funny that his tail looks like alien eyes peering over his shoulder!



My son wanted to know if he had two butts!

__________________
Dusty
Wishing you an inspirational day!

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump




All times are GMT -7. The time now is 9:29am.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Your IP: 44.211.117.101