Worth the wait....

Thanks to the wonderful artists at the AZ Renaissance Fair.

Waiting to begin

Whole greater

Whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

~Aristotle

See the connection

Chihuly Desert Botanical Garden

Art mimicking Nature

Chihuly in Desert Botanical Gardens

Blowing Glass

Coming Soon.....

Blowing Glass

Tempting Globes

Potential Color

Colored Silica Not sand

Super Heated

Tools of the Trade

Preheating

Adding hot color to hot glass

A color cap

Embedding Granules

Reheating

Swirling Color

Back to the Furnace

Puffs of Air

Holding Breath

Shaping

Forming

Expanding

Newspaper Shaper

Flattening

Transferring

Widening

Narrowing

Crimping

Triumphant Finish

These pictures taken at the AZ Renaissance Festival include different glass demonstrations from different angels. The process of blowing glass lasting hundreds of years.