Bombay gin bottle Buddha july 2007

my first 3D casting I used Bombay gin Bottles the temp of 1550 f was not high enough you can see the different size frit I used med in the head and hands up to large in the body and then pre fired cullet in reservoir no glass stuck in the clay saucer untreated flower saucer. In the last photo you can see one of the bottle necks in the "base" unemptied reservoir.

Young Mammaries with Belly Rolls July 2007 cast in the same firing as the above Bombay Buddha

Young Mammaries with Belly Rolls.......Taboo

Women and men have been fascinated and have idealized women's breasts for centuries. They come in all shapes sizes and conditions: small, large, flat, new, used, pierced, enlarged, decreased, surgically removed, hidden, restricted, exposed. Society decides on how much exposure, where and when it is respectable or legal. They are: essential, life giving, nurturing and a confronting, powerful sexual attraction.

link to our poster and artist statements

this collaboration quilt is going to be installed in the Scared Heart Children's Foundation ( sick kid's ) Hospital in Spokane Washington

The final poster:

http://amsmith.com/quilt/quiltposter2007.pdf this site you can print poster on 8x11 page .. size

The first poster :(white background) with how they were made + artist statements

http://glassquilt.wordpress.com/ the first (white background) poster with artist statements.

More Mammaries= Mega Mams with Belly Rolls

This plaster mold was from a wax pattern I made many months ago in 2006. The plaster mold of the pattern, it has been drying since Feb 1st . The longer you leave a mold to dry the stronger it is. That sure showed up in this on. No fissures anywhere. I placed powders in the areola area then laid frit into the mold to give it shading. I then place sheet glass over the frit to cut down on the bubbles and increase the transparency. It's almost finished I need to make a bead for the nipple ring. The first two torched beads I made did not work out ....try, try again...

nipple ring is on the right in the photo below, it's a biggy.

The glass unframed is 10"x12"x 1/4'"




Here it is framed approx. 13"x14"

The Quilt Collaboration

Pacfic Northwest Underwater scene
depicting my family as well

The Quilt Collaboration is a virtual quilt with 64 people from Warm glass website collaborating. Each making a 8X8" glass tile using the theme Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. It will first be shown as a photo virtual quilt. Each person is to complete the project by making tile that is personally challenging. and then photographing the work and emailing it to Toni the person putting it all the tiles together for us. Someday it may become a physical quilt..who knows.. I made an under water scene of the north Pacific coast.
I started my under water scene, witha pattern clay. The challenge for me is the longer slower, casting times ,resulting in getting more bubbles out of the glass and casting thicker and the frit/pate de verre (meaning literally paste of glass) technique. Then I filled the plaster mold with larger frit. I am happy with the result. The shells look real when you are up close and when you touch them.

Serving up Mango Mammaries

I have more mammaries to post. The originals now have a mate (hee hee) to make 5 pairs. I now have started a new set of darker coloured ones.
a quick shot of newest addition to the mam set. They are actually three different colours of brown to black but very difficult to see the subtle changes even when holding them.

Mango Mammaries

Well I went to the market and purchased 6 beautiful mangos they had to be just right size, shape, form and stem ( nipple) structure. I will never look at a mango the same again hee hee. I came home cast the mangos in clay and left the wet clay to dry . Then placed the clay mold in the kiln.






<-shows four empty mango molds ( the dark circle is the pot melt disc that I didn't use) and lip molds on the top and left side of pic.

Then: I then filled the molds with glass frit/shards. The bottom right is a tiny pot melt into a booby mold to see if I could get a swirl in the booby. In the back ground is red glass for top lips, bottom lips mold is at far left edge. I want to slice the bars to use in other face windows or....

any way back to the mango mammaries here is the last pics of the little castings my first .....................




mango mammaries.

Odd "mam" out the center mam is the pot melt there is a bit of red swirl that I like . Oh I do have a lot of fun..

the Lips Pattern bar each piece is 6 inches log to be cut up.

We will have to wait and see what the big picture ( pun intended)is with these little objects who knows ... not me yet.

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