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Ugly duckling
Published: 2005-05-24 05:27:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 16422; Favourites: 557; Downloads: 2995
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*Edit* Sorry for the repost... But I updated the image. This one has much better contrast.*This piece is a lot more complex that it looks. It looked really bad when I was finished with it, so I cut off the top at an angle, polished it, and then added a battuto technique to the side.
It's a three hour piece. A cane pickup incalmo switch axis... After I battutoed the sides and cut the top it looked much MUCH better. I quite like it now!
It's about 16" tall
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How ironic that you didn't even like it in the begining because now it looks spectacular. That's talent right there, making something beautiful out of something ugly. I love the name you chose too. Well done! Congrats!
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Thanks! Yeah, I was so dissapointed when I first saw this piece. Because I'd worked so long on it... I'm glad it worked out in the end!
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You're welcome. I'm glad too!
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Hmm... I can't imagine how bad it was, because it looks mighty fine to me now. I just took a glass working workshop with Corradetti, and it helped me appreciate glass a whole lot better.
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hey it looks tight to me! I really like this thing. i'd have one in my living room if i could!
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too bad you didn't take a pic of the before...I would love to see what this swan looked like before it grew....
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Yeah.. I feel the exact same way. Alas. Such is life. Perhaps next time I'll remember!
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i auctually thought this was a 3d peice 
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Hahahaha.
It is a 3d piece! It's a glass vase!
Trust your instincts!
D
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well done on the DD hun 
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Thank you kindly!
And just think, I've had over 1,500 new pageviews in the past day, and they've all seen your image in my favorites section!
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That's a pretty vase, congrats on the DD
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this is awesome ^^. you dont see many sculptures, pots or ceramics in the DD category. this definatly deserved it though. i love it ^^ very neat use of colors.
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Thanks! YEah, I don't recall ever seeing any functional pieces as a DD before. Although this is also borderline sculpture I suppose. Kind of crosses boundaries.
thanks!
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wow! thats awesome! my dad works in glass and he is on the 'other art site', wetcanvas.
anyway, that piece is well named and certiantly very cool!
take care
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Thanks.
Does your dad blow glass? or work in other ways?
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and small show room...
fyrsmith
fyrsmith.com
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oh, well my dad has a "real" job if thats what you meen lol. durring the day he is a marine electronics technition. at night, when its dark he lights up the torch! hehe.... he works in borosilicate glass using a table mounted torch.
"fyrsmith"
he does such works you may wear, like pendants and also hanging ornaments.
[link]
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That's cool. yeah, lampworking is the much more easily accessible little brother of studio blowing! You dad does some nice work!
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Thanks. lol or whatever I meen I love his work.. I will have to put up something of his that I am wearing... a glass heart or spear shaped pendant.
I have seen studio and furnis blowing only on video, but it would be awesome to be watching it close up! I think I might get entranced too much haha.
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Hehehehe. It is. I blew this piece out of glass!
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This certainly is a beautiful piece. "Ugle Duckling"? As in ugly at first and then formed into this final result, a beautful creation. It's a such a calming object to look at. Has many forms of nature from my view; water droplet shape, fish scales, swirling strands of kelp or flowign fins... I also like the cutting at the top; if it was simply cut horizontally or funneled, it would not give off the same elgance as it does here. Beautiful job, aughing Tree. This is so pleasing to view. You have a lovely talent and you're good at it! ^_^
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Thanks for your comment! I love hearing what people receive from my pieces. What they see in them. It's great to hear and it helps me to develop new ideas. So thanks!
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that really is a gorgeous piece. have you ever made anything out of gemstones?
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Thanks.
And no, I can't say as though I have.
Do you mean gluing gemstones to an object?
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well, you're great at what you do do. i meant like making an object out of a hunk of gem.
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That is absolutely gorgeous. Congrats on your DD.
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i want that thing on a pedestal THIS IS A GENUINE WORK OF ART ! ! !
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Thanks! This piece has spent some time on a pedestal actually!
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And when the kids saw the form on Sony's new PSP, few complained in such a manner as 'But that's . . . a gaming device. . . . '
What a fine design, and the hex 'texture' paired with the color and outside form allude me to the quenching thought of water. Carbonhazard, are you in industrial/materials studies?
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I don't think. Btw, I hate PSP so that doesn't really matter.
I still don't get it...
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Well I dunno what to tell ya, kiddo; no one gets anything unless they ask. I'm apologetic that the proper context hasn't been presented to you, or that you haven't gone to the resources already accessible to you. The only other thing is that your comment is dry; neither positive nor insulting, no one will weigh a mole of passion for the discussion of design with you.
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IT'S A VASE. DO YOU SEE IT???
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it looks very very nice ^^
my mom would love something like that
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haha thats so cool! for half a second there, i thought it was rendered. Beautiful technique and details! I kind of like the cutting of the top at an angle. Good work!
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My personal favorite are the people who think it's 3-D, but are then convinced it is rendered!
thanks!
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Gorgeous! I don't normally 
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Well thank you very much then.
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