A gifted glass artist showcases marvelous innovative techniques - Stretch, Squish & Polish!
A video to shatter all the stress that's not letting your mind rest.
Watch as Joshua puts on a clinic with his flawless glass art chops.
He not only prepares but also narrates his journey to preparing two stunning, delicate, and intricately carved glasses. The first one is a 'Wig Wag Bag' and the next one is a jaw-dropping Copper Blue Stuff cup.
"During my artist residency at the Taoxichuan Glass Center, I explored different shapes as bag handles," Joshua told WooGlobe. "In this video, I stretch and polish glass into cubes, heat them up, and attach them to a glass bag to form a chain of glass cubes for the handle."
Location: Jingdezhen, China
WooGlobe Ref : WGA408984
For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com
Watch as Joshua puts on a clinic with his flawless glass art chops.
He not only prepares but also narrates his journey to preparing two stunning, delicate, and intricately carved glasses. The first one is a 'Wig Wag Bag' and the next one is a jaw-dropping Copper Blue Stuff cup.
"During my artist residency at the Taoxichuan Glass Center, I explored different shapes as bag handles," Joshua told WooGlobe. "In this video, I stretch and polish glass into cubes, heat them up, and attach them to a glass bag to form a chain of glass cubes for the handle."
Location: Jingdezhen, China
WooGlobe Ref : WGA408984
For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com
Transcript
00:00 It's time for me to make the headiest bag I've ever made.
00:03 I'm going to overlay some gray glass over white glass.
00:06 Put a thick layer of clear over that.
00:08 Shape into a cylinder and stretch it across the entire room.
00:13 I'm going to chop that up into pieces called cane.
00:15 I'm going to spin open a pink plate, clear plate and chop that on the tile side.
00:24 I arrange them like this.
00:25 Heat them up on the pastorelli.
00:28 Roll them up and brush them off.
00:30 Then I merge them together into a cylinder.
00:33 I gotta make sure I align these parts just right.
00:36 I take the tip off of the cylinder.
00:38 I heat up a small portion of the cylinder by the bottom.
00:41 I twist that up and then I heat up a section just above that and twist it in the opposite direction.
00:48 I continue to do this until I achieve what's known in the business as a wig wag pattern.
00:54 Look at that wig wag.
00:58 Then I put a jack line in it.
01:00 Oh man this pattern is looking so nice.
01:02 Transfer it to a punty.
01:05 I heat up the front and I open up the lip.
01:08 Now I'm going to put this in the annealer for later.
01:11 This is going to keep it warm while I prepare the copper blue stuff cup.
01:15 Here I am taking some copper blue.
01:17 I'm going to smush that onto a bubble.
01:19 This is called an overlay.
01:21 Then I'm going to fade it so it's copper blue by the pipe and clear on the tip.
01:26 Now I'm stuffing that copper blue into the cup.
01:29 I heat up the bottom.
01:30 I jack it.
01:31 I heat it.
01:32 I squish it with the corks.
01:34 Heat up the bottom.
01:35 Flatten it.
01:36 Drill it with the drill.
01:37 Punty that.
01:39 Take the top off of that.
01:42 Ream it with my tweezers.
01:44 Ream it some more.
01:45 Squish it with my corks.
01:47 Squish it some more.
01:49 Squish it some more.
01:50 Then I go in with my magic reamer and I ream open that handle.
01:54 Heat up the bottom.
01:56 Add a little bit of water.
01:57 Tap it off.
01:58 And that's it.
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