Glass Inspirations, Part 1: Flowers

I haven't had much time to crochet lately, but I visited a glass studio and spent a few hours flameworking and experimenting on my own. Here are a few of the results!

Basically created by alternating compressions with random streaks/dots of 4-5 different colors... turned out really cool, I think. =)

Here are different views of the same small half-marble I created by dotting color onto the glass and then compressing multiple times.

And a flower pendant, made using similar techniques:

Finally, a 3D rose! =D (or some other pretty flower). This was fun to make.

And a view from the back:

I also made some other really cool glass pieces that I'll post about later. And I'm open to suggestions about what I should try next time, too, so please give me ideas!

Flameworked Glass Pieces

Since I have some more spare time over the weekends this summer, I decided to take a couple of flameworking classes at a nearby studio. I was able to make four pieces and I'm pleased with how all of them turned out, so I thought I'd share them here. These were all made with borosilicate glass.

During the first class, I was able to make a small marble and a pendant. The marble was made by adding two stripes of color in an x-formation to either side of a flattened piece of clear glass, then encasing the color in more clear glass and twisting the piece to create the spiral.

My second piece was a small pendant. The 3D effect was created using "implosion", where small dots are placed at the back of the piece, and then the glass is melted and pulled down around the dots, causing them to stretch out more and create depth.