Last year, Stephen went to the Canberra Glassworks for a workshop. This year, both Zac and Stephen were able to join in with other homeschoolers and go to a workshop being run by local artist, Kristie Rea.
Kristie showed them around her gallery space, explaining some of the different porcesses and effects that can be achieved with glass. Here’s some examples:
Etching on plain glass
Glass houses
Sculpture inspired by tractors and grates.
Kristie ran a beginner’s class, where they made the flat, postcard designs and an intermediate class, where they made a bent design. Here’s some examples below:
They could choose a concave or a convex bend, and a shallow or a deeper one. That decided, it was down to the design phase:
Kristie had such a range of colours, thin straight pieces, crushed up ones, thin spaghetti and almost every variety in between. She was also able to cut the pieces down to fit the shapes they required. I think some found all of this choice difficult and then ran out of time to actually utilise all that was available. Most rose to the challenge and I was so impressed with their work.
Here’s a photo of the earlier workshop with the smaller designs (far right) and the larger ones to be bent (middle and foreground)
I’ll take another photo of the finished product and put it up here next time I’m back on blogging. The boys had a great time and I think I’ll sign myself up next time as I loved looking at the glass and seeing what could be done with it.
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