Images in Mirror

Hand crafted mirror by Micky BranchThese beautiful flowers are cut and painted into this latest mirror designed and hand beveled by Micky – with each new piece we see more and more possibilities. She is experimenting right now with different shapes and sizes as well as playing with different design concepts and styles. Its safe to say we are leaning toward focusing mostly on achieving an antique look. This is going to turn out to be a perfect medium in which to translate her outstanding photography talent.

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Beveled mirror designed and handcrafted by Micky Branch

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Painting Upright Glass

adding color to an etched glass doorI’ve been putting color on sandblasted glass for a long time, but this was the first time I ever had to do it with the glass in the vertical. I wasn’t even sure it was possible, and did quite a bit of experimentation and then practice and preparation.

All went well and I managed to get a few pictures of the work in progress which took place in an uncommonly beautiful dentist office – Trust me, you have never seen a dentist office like Aadland Dental in Vancouver – absolutely stunning! It features stained glass windows by Chuck Franklin Glass Studio. (Click the image for a small slideshow).

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On a completely unrelated note, some parts of the website are disjointed right now, especially for users of “internet explorer”… sorry about that. We are doing some re-organizing and adding a couple of new features. It should only take a few days hopefully to iron out the wrinkles. We want to make it clearer to people all the different things we do, and also to consolidate the different mediums into a more comprehensive form – so each one is now going to have its own page. The words you can see in the white box up in the header will be actual links when we’re all done.

painting etched glass

painting etched glass

painting etched glass

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Advancement in Portraiture

a face etched in glassThere’s been another improvement on how I approach photo-realism. This is not a photo-resist process. It’s really just traditional stage-blasting, but taken to an extreme level.

This example (based on Philippe Halsman’s photo “Elizabeth Taylor 1948”) is the first in a series I’m going to be posting. The ones to follow are going to be much more intense, more dynamic, and more detailed.

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New Mirror

hand beveled mirror at Glasstone StudioThis is the latest mirror designed and hand beveled by Micky. The artwork is sandblasted into the back.

We would love to have some of these in our store … we would love to have anything in our store for that matter. Too much to do – too little time. Perhaps this year will be different. I certainly hope so.

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Queen Anne Door

Glass etching for a Queen Anne style door in Vancouver WashingtonI don’t yet have final photos on this yet, because on this one I am not the installer. As soon as I can though I hope I can get photos of the finished product. This is a very special piece in which both sides of the glass are etched to create a 3 dimensional affect. We also provided the border glass in green, blue, and amber.

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