11/04/2013

How To Make A Glass Sculpture Alberta

By Alyce Powell


Sculpting in glass has always been a very challenging and delicate form of sculpting simply because it is not an easy task to handle shards and making something out of these pieces. If one is an artist and would like a little challenge, then it is suggested that he try to make a glass sculpture Alberta. If he would want to but does not know where to start, then here are some ideas on how to.

In order to avoid any casualties while doing this, one will have to make sure that he is being covered at all times. This means that he has to wear some safety equipment as well as wear the proper clothing before he gets started. A list of things that he will be needing would be a pair of goggles, a small torch, a few graphite paddles, a kiln, and of course a pair of gloves.

The first thing that one should do would be to put on the goggles, the gloves, and wear some long sleeves so that he will be fully protected. Although it is optional, one should probably wear an apron because he will be getting some hot shards on him. If one thinks that he is safe enough, then he may light up the torch already.

After lighting up the torch, then the next thing to do would be to start off with a small piece. One has to be extremely careful at this point because he will be melting the shard with the torch which means he will point the torch at the small piece. Once it is a little bit soft already, one can now make a ball.

The first thing to do with these balls would be to actually create a small base from these things. The base is one of the most important parts of the sculpture because it will be the thing that will hold the figure. The thing that will be used for the creation of the base would be none other than the graphite paddles.

Once the base has already been made, then one may now continue making the rest of the figure with a little bit more glass balls. To add to the figure, one can now use some tools and some other pieces in order to make the figure. The first thing to do would be to preheat the kiln until it is already quite hot.

Once the kiln has already been heated, then the next step would be to use some tweezers in order to manipulate the hot pieces of glass. While the tweezers are used for pulling the pieces to manipulate them, the graphite poles will be used once again to straighten the figure. When the figure has already been created, place it in the kiln for it to form.

While the kiln is heating up the glass sculpture Alberta, one has to lower the heat every one hour. By doing this, he is slowly letting the sculpture form and at the same time not break down. After the heating, one can now allow it to cool down.




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