I decided to progress my glass blowing knowledge with another weekend class. It's been almost a whole year since my last class so I quickly found out how much I DIDN'T remember about glass blowing. There were only 2 students in the class so, in theory, we should have a lot of blowing time. However, it wasn't quite what I thought it would be.
The other student in the class was actually a GB assistant from a shop in the British Virgin Islands so was fairly experienced. He was in Vancouver for 1 week only and wanted to see how things are done here with new glass (they use only recycled glass there). Unfortunately, the skills he had learned there were from a self-taught blower so the instructor spent much of her time trying to UN-teach his bad habits. I did learn a few new things, and I did get some time with glass, but only managed to make a few (wonky) pieces. I still want to spend more time working glass but I think I'll try to find a weekly class instead of a crammed, intensive weekend one.
Here are my wonky creations... In case you can't tell, they are: 1 paper-weight (John's special request), 1 small bowl, 1 plate, 1 starfish and 1 mutant mini starfish-ish....
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