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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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Congrats on the DD 
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Very cool to see something so different featured!
I very much like the "scaled" appearance of the blue area, and it was a good choice to cut the top off at an angle...it makes it look more interesting and plays into the green curves.
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Thanks! I agree. I don't think I can remember anything like this being a DD before!
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this makes me curious as to whether you combine a piece like this with a fountain of some sort, it would look amazing (though it already looks incredibly beautiful) with water trickling over it.
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Flawless and stunning. This piece reminds me of a multitude of beautiful things, like a peacock's feathers, swaying grass, and gray pebbles on the bottom of a stream. It also has the gentle shape of something from the far East-- very well done.
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Thank you! I love to hear what people see in my pieces. I really find that quite interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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awesome!
just friggin cool!
i'd sure like to learn the art of creating stuff llike ceramics, glass and so on.
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If the opportunity arises, don't pass it up! It's an incredible experience!
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I'm glad that you "I quite like it now!" Of course none of us are able to compare it with its original appearance.
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Feat. DEVIATION !!! 
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Thanks darling! Haven't seen much from you lately! Where have you been?
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If this peice is alot mroe complicated than it looks, then it would be impossible to make it. This is awsome. Grand I tell you hehe!
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Hehehe. Thanks! I guess to me it doens't appear as complicated because I know all the techniques. But to someone who doesn't know that much about glassblowing, I could see how it would appear pretty complex.
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Very graceful, and lovely! I'm not seeing the ugly duckling. I only see a beautiful swan.
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Superb craftmanship can be seen within your work. I understand the play on words of it not being gorgeous when you first removed it from the furnace. Though with the hand done work it became a beautiful swan. Well done word play on a children's story. And even more so on your craftmanship.
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Thank you! I value my craftsmanship quite a bit! A bit of a stickler I suppose.
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That is under\standable. Exspecially with the time that goes into it.
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this is very nice! I thought it was a digital render when I first looked at it (I'd never seen quite that patten of uhm.. scales? on a vase before, so I dunno...)
Much liking ^_^
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That is such a pretty vase. BTW, congrats on the Daily Deviation.
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this one is amazing... I hope I can have that real piece of jar in my house ^^
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The top of that vase looks weapons-grade sharp...
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YOU CRAZY BASTARD YOU!!!! look at this man.... I remember the night I saw some of your first posts on da, I thought "this guy is going to hit it big on da, people are going to eat his stuff up" and look at ya now my friend, you've reached celebrity status.
hah. I almost fell over backwards when I saw this picture over in the daily dev window. well man, ya done good. I seriously doubt that this will be your last daily deviation.
well I'm happy for ya man.
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Thank you kindly sir! I still remember that journal post you made for me! That was a pretty exciting moment for me really.
How's that game coming along? You need BETA testers yet? D
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hah, it's coming along pretty crapily actually. I don't think it will ever see the light of day to tell you the truth.
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It was an incredible undertaking. Well, I wish you luck in it... Hopefully it at least was not all for naught.
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Wow. Looks great. And this took only three hours? Looks like a lot more.
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Well, the actual blowing of the piece took 3 hours. There was also time involved in the setup, the cane pulls, and the surface texture I added later. Total, it's atually closer to 6 hours.
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Oh, I see. I'm not very familiar with the art of glass blowing, but I still would have guessed more.
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It's a relatively quick medium to work with.... For the most part at least... It has its limits...
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I`d love to have something like that at home. Good work
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tremendous! I really like this one!
Selling?
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Thanks
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Well it was an ugly duckling, when it was first created. But it has since blossomed into a beautiful swan! When it was first finished, it was quite a bit less attractive!
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wow thats great 
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Thanks so much! I created all my glasswork at Ohio State in their glass studio. As for how do I make things out of glass... I'm not sure if I can just answer that question. That's quite an open ended question. It can be fairly complicated!
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hehe ok, well thanx for answering anyway, i really like you glass-making however you do it! it looks fun too, i really like all the textures and the colours
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This is breathtaking! I am curious about the techniques you used. I assume this is glassblown. What is battuto, and how do you do it?
I like the shape of it especially, and the angle at which you cut off the neck is very effective. I like the pattern of what look almost like thumbprints on it, and the colors you chose.
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Thanks for your interest. Battuto is an italian technique used to create those circular imprints in the glass. It's created using a grinding machine that has a rounded disc on it. They come in all different grits depending on how much material you want to remove. Basically I hold the piece up to the grinding disc until it creates that concave shape, I then move the piece a little bit and do it again next to it. Over and over and over again until I cover the area I want textured. I can then either use a finer grit to get a more polished look, or I can add a surface treatment (I use a specific hand cream) that takes away the frosted look that the lower grit leaves and it leaves that smooth, yet foggy appearance. I really like the way it looks that way. And it takes MUCH less time than trying to regrind every single indentation with a finer grit (Which I've done before)
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Thank you for the explanation. It is a lovely texture.
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