Posted on 05/22/2019 7:14:06 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Very cool
It must really be something to have that level of artistic skill.
The Blaschkas were truly master craftsmen and artists. Astounding work.
Wow
BFL
We were at the Bay Area Maker Faire this last weekend in San Mateo, CA. Michael Dickinson from Marin County was demonstrating his glass blowing skills. He made a throw-away sea shell that was so detailed, so gorgeously colored and so life-like that it could fool a person. He made the piece for practice and demo at the event. He doesn't even bother to anneal the piece, so it will probably break after a few hours or days.
His regular art glass is magnificent.
You can see him working on a seashell at 1:50 in this Maker Faire 2016 Glass Demonstration video.
Lastly, here is a flower he made...
I’ve seen them in person. Great artistry.
Incredible. Thanks for posting.
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Saw them with my mother in the late ‘90s or early ‘00s. The museum they were in was interesting, but back before smart phones it was so easy to get lost in Boston... and Boston, even then, not a place I want to be any longer than I have to be.
“Do humans living today even possess this level of skill anymore?”
Probably... in Japan.
I was there Saturday, and was amazed by the beauty of the items in his tent - truly an artist!
Too bad his stuff is too appropriately expensive (and I don't host fancy shindigs where fashionable people drink alcohol) to justify buying some of his work.
Check out post 8. Michael Dickinson is pretty amazing.
Yeah... I just finished watching that. Impressive!
One of my childhood friends became a successful glass artist, but I have never seen anything like the realistic pieces shown here. Thanks for posting.
I visited Boston years ago and toured this museum. The glass replicas of flowers and other living things were so unbelievably lifelike, you expected them to sway in the wind or make other natural movements. They are EXQUISITE!
When I saw them there was a broken flower in one of the cases, in shards. I think they did it to "prove" that the flowers are really of glass.
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