To break up my bronze intensive at Bead and Button, I took a two day glass class with Kim Fields, know for her realistic depictions of flora and fauna. The class was titled Forest Flora, and over two days we made a collection of goodies you might find on the forest floor: acorns, pinecones, leaves of different types, maple seeds, berries, branches and mushrooms.
We mixed a lot of glass to get more interesting and appropriate colors and had a lot of fun. There were only three students so the teacher-to-student ration was especially good. Kim was just tons of fun.
At Meet the Teachers she did me the extreme honor of asking to trade beads with me. I traded the electroformed swallowtail, hung on a black rubber cord,
for a Vermilion Flycatcher, a bird my DH and I saw outside our bed & breakfast on our recent twentieth anniversary escape. Isn't he amazing (more so when you realize that red glass looks black when it's hot!!)?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Glass Forest at Bead & Button
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