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Old 2013-10-23, 6:49pm
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Wow. Amazing! I made two pathetic implosion flowers last weekend. I have a long way to go. But then again, I haven't been able to torch for almost a year, so I've lost my touch. thank you for sharing, everyone!
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Hey jamie don't feel bad, I make pathetic implosions sometimes and I torch almost everyday.lol. If I get even more than 2 days off I feel rusty. I think it will come back pretty quick, you just gotta spend some time with the fire. Start with things that you remember being easy, choose easy to work with colors, do simple things, make frit implosions with large frit to get the rythm back of how to heat the maria to make that happen. Sometimes it seems like all I make is crap, especially when I experiment, then I go back to what I know I'm good at and get back on track that way. Glass is funny I think. Somedays everything I make is just perfect, then somedays it is pretty sad, really.
You just need to melt some to remember.
And lets see some pics. yes.
Here is what I did yesterday

I know these are not floral, they are just frit, simple but pretty.
these are cabs for rings.

these have paparazzi frit and some jackpot frit in them and they spar kel.
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I love those flowers Mary!
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Mary, thanks for the encouragement. I started a new thread if anyone would like to give advise, I sure need it! I used coe 104 glass, that's all I have.

http://lampworketc.com/forums/showth...38#post4440638

Edited to add: sad pictured included in the above thread. lol
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Old 2013-10-24, 4:03pm
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Ah, well these days I know not much about 104 and especially for pendants etc. When I used to work 104, I only did beads.
And thank you Miss Pat for the compliment. Flowers are my favorite thing to make.
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Mary, I always like your flowers and really like the frit implosions! Very cool, I tried a couple yesterday. I'll post some pictures tonight if they turned out at all. Thanks for sharing.
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Here is the frit implosion. Kind of became a flower, pretty fun to try. And another new flower.






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And the petal shapes are wonderful. And I love how you framed in black. I think I am sayinghow impressed I am with your work. If i could do half as we'll I would be pleased. Love your stamens also! Dianne

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VooDooVixen nice work, that is a beautiful blue what color glass is that?
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Thank you PJ, now if I could just get my centers in the center.
Sometimes I like to put a frame of Jet around florals, gives them
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Could you share where you saw the John Kobuki video please? TIA, Dianne


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmoV2Y33UQ
spend 52 minutes watching this, then go make a marble... my marbles improved instantly...
Here you go, this is the J.Kobuki vid. I would take another JK class in a heartbeat if I could.
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The video is terrific. His technique is impeccable.

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Mary, beautiful batch of florals!!!
May I ask what colours you used in this last batch? Petals and stamens?
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love seeing the implosions.
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Mary, beautiful batch of florals!!!
May I ask what colours you used in this last batch? Petals and stamens?
Thanks so much.
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Hey thanks all for the comments.
Staymens ~ basically two different ones, with the green one around the edge of staymen area.
Green: coat that indian dark green with turbo cobalt or jet black and pull out.
Aqua-ish: coat any med. aqua glass with turbo cobalt and pull out. here I think I used aqua azul.
staymen dots must be very, very tiny, & I mean small. I cover the whole area with the cane behind it (looking into the maria)with dots.
Petals:
all the fushia looking ones are DAP - small thin line then another small line of
ruby strike 4 or carmel, or violet hue, they all turn out similar.
The yellow flower is carmel petals in the middle and outter petals are line of purple lustre and then the carmel. with only green staymens.
The top left pendant has violet medley inside petals.
backing is one dip into paparazzi frit and then one dip into shamrock frit and then about 8 dips in jet fine frit.
the timing of how you heat and cool the glass and then strike it makes a big difference in what colors you get.
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thanks! Colors are sunburst orange for stamen. Northstar white encased with red elvis (upper left). Lines of red elvis on top of a line of white. Then one dot of a medium cobalt. Can barely see the red on this one. And white encased with a crayon yellow.
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Good luck and have fun with your first sale. Be sure to bring a note
pad and pencil to write down things you would do at the next sale.
Showing is a learning experience, main thing is to enjoy the people
who look at your stuff, be friendly and tell them how you make it.
If you can, bring some photographs of you working, people are always
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Beautiful!
What shape are your petals when you draw them? How do you get the pointy ones and the ones that have a sharp point coming out of a wider petal?
I usually press the lines in the middle with a blade, but they do not come out that way...
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after you press with your blade, reheat a bit and give it a poke with sharp tungsten
poke in the same spot your swiped your blade.
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that will give you a sharp point in the middle of the pedal.
now if you just want a narrower pedal, instead of putting a ) down for the pedal, put more of a > .
alternated )>)>)> looks good too.
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Here is a diagram of placement for lines and dots for pendant with
2 layers of petals and leaves.

Black ink represents glass, red ink represents tooling.
I try for a tiny dot in center of maria then surround it with 5 dots.
then 5 more tiny dots spaced between first 5. That creats a kind of a
star shape, with the dots. Can you see it?

Using your dots as refference, lay 5 fine lines evenly around center dots.
They can just be straight lines.
Heat to just barely melt in, then GENTLY poke center dots with small
pic. not a lot just a touch. Too much and it will go like for a jelly fish.
Then I use an exacto knife, I have 4 of them with different size blades in them, use a small one here, and just barely score the middle of each of
the 5 lines. Then go back and drag your small pic in the line you made
with the exacto, drag it outward away from center, heat the area, small
focused flame, drag, go around till it looks like this:

Then lay second thin line

score drag etc repeat

third line, that will be your leaves.
score drag center then add light scores as shown,
that gets that edgy leaf look.

I use biggest exacto blade on leaves,
all my exacto blades are just square, not pointed.
Basically what I hope everyone notices is that the top
drawing is what you lay on in thin lines of glass.
This last drawing is what you should look like before
you compress. The Pendant that is.
sometime I partially compress the petals then add leaves,
play with it and post what you get.
This from an earlier post in this thread. I use mostly straight lines. My pendants are so small there is not room on the maria for > type petals.
I NEVER poke the PETALS with a pointed pick. I only poke the staymen dots. Poking the petals sends the glass up too high for the flower to look natural, I want those petals to stay flat and rise. I only DRAG the pick on the line to give the petal a pointed tip, if that is what I want.
For the smaller more pointed petals, like that yellow one, I just make my line shorter smaller and drag the small pointed pick on it untill it is how I want it. I never do this all in one step, I keep going around the petals evening them out untill they are how I need them to be.
Everybody has a different way to do florals. My goal is to get flowers that look more realistic.
using a cuticle pusher like you can get at Sally's on a straight line will give you a lotus style petal, that will cup around the staymens.
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Was a good day.
Mary I have been studying your florals ad infiniititum and still feel hesitant to take the plunge. I have studied all the you tube but when I get to my torch, it all goes haywire. Unfortunately I will never be able to attend a workshop, too far away! (Africa south)
However I will continue to gaze at your work - thank you.
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AudreyDe I do not know what your skill level is, are you just starting out or???
Have you worked with boro or soft glass? I have worked with boro for about 10 years, I started out with soft glass and abandoned it for boro. Also sucess depends on your torch, you need enough heat to properly work this glass.
So, that said, you can't run before you crawl. Start with easy things to get the feel.
I always reccomend doing simple frit compressions to find out how to melt this glass.
Or simple dot compressions. I have only had 2 classes in the years I have melted glass. The first one, I could have taught the teacher a thing or 2, so was dissapointed with it. The second class was life changing for me, but there is much you can learn on YouTube,so don't give up, just try simpler things to increase your skill. Don't feel bad either about things going haywire, I get my share of those kind of days too. Keep melting glass, that is the way to learn, really.
What is meaning of "I de Hasst"? I am curious.
Thanks for gazing.
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