1/13/2014

Information To Have About Glass Sculpture Alberta

By Marissa Velazquez


Clean, sharp results can come from using glass as a sculpting material. A lot of sculptors have used it, in the past, to craft the attention grabbing glass sculpture Alberta that they wanted to. As an art material, it is quite diverse, despite its fragility. A lot of the time, the clarity will make any bright colors that are used very vivid, indeed.

If the glass is transparent, than this will, particularly, be the case. Many people will purchase these sculptures because they want to use them as one single burst of color in a chosen environment. A lot of artists will also use color to suggest a certain mood, especially alongside the shape that the work has. A lot of different forms can be found with this kind of art. For example, mosaics are very popular with some artists.

This can be a good way to make defined shapes, especially with all the sharp corners of the individual shards. Mosaics do not have the smooth clarity that other types of glasswork can have, but they can have more in the way of definition. Some of these have a pattern, like stripes, whereas others have a more obvious picture.

For instance, you may find something like a butterfly. Mirrors are often used, here, whether in the design, itself, or the mosaic could be the frame of a mirror. The thing about this method is that you can also incorporate other objects into the design. Many people choose to use seashells to embed among the shards of glass.

Using a variety of different seashells means that an incredibly natural impression is used. Fragility is also a noted aspect of glass, of course. For this reason, things that are assumed to be delicate, like flowers or some animals, are often subjects, here. The overall impression is of a beautiful thing that can be broken.

Flowers are associated with qualities like those, so they are a traditional choice of subject, here. Animals like birds and deer are also seen like this, a lot of the time. Insects, however, are also starting to be used as subjects, here, more often. They are, after all, fragile and small and, in glass, there is beauty in their limbs and wings.

A lot of difference is made with size, of course. An artist can make the most of the small size of a figurine, but they can do the same with a bigger one, too. As the substance is thin, it would not be used so much in a bigger structure because it would not be able to take the weight. As the material is transparent, this can be used to great affect with the application of light, particularly if color is used, too. It might be that artificial lights are placed around so that they can catch the angles that the sculpture has.

The light might also be places behind or underneath the piece so that it appears that the light is coming from within. If you use light this way then, if you have a single color, there, both lights and shadows will result in a lot of different tones and shades being created. With all the ways there are to make a glass sculpture Alberta, you can make your own art.




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