Creating a Glass Art Sculpture in the Studio, Part 3 In Which a Horse Becomes Glass
Read Part 1 and Part 2 Into the Heat… The Story So Far… The plaster horse mold has been pressed in the sand and readied for the most spectacular part of the day – pouring the 2,000 degrees liquid molten glass into the mold. We change into our protective clothing. This...With Marlene Rose in the Studio, Part 7, In Which a Horse Circles Back to the Beginning and We Get Even More Philosophical.
The Horse is in its Stand. The stand arrives in the Gallery, and for the first time, completed glass meets completed stand. Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts? Is it fine art glass sculpture? It had better be! Or I start again… I step back and look at the...With Marlene Rose in the Studio, Part 6, In Which a Horse Stands Up
Long Before This… Long before we began the casting process, we made many sketches that became computer drawings of how the Horse might be presented. Thomas’ previous life as an architect comes in handy… The computer drawings were quite incomplete, just good enough to...
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