All the molds are made except for the final stage of the hollow core cast bubble on the end of the blow pipe. I have been putting in endless hours to test color for the piece. I will need to make clear, blue, a pale yellow, gray and several brown tones, I mix my base batch, and test colorants in 2 lb melts. Every test batch gets mixed for 1 Hour, put into a small crucuble, pot and taken to 2000 degrees. It then gets poured out and anneled. Once I see how it looks as a transparent color, I bring it back up in temperature and hold it so that the color will opacify. This then gets annealed. This lets me see the same test in an opaque tone.
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Dean AllisonDean Allison is a studio artist working with portrait sculpture and the figure with glass. His studio is in Pittsburgh PA. Dean is working on a commissioned sculpture for our new space in the Newark Arts Common. Follow Dean as he works to create this new significant work of art. Archives
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