glass art – def·i·ni·tion

Painting Upright Glass

October 17, 2010 No Comments

I’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.

Etched Glass

Work Work Work!

May 21, 2010 No Comments

Happy to report that I’ve been too busy to keep the website up-to-date. I’ll try to quickly catch up. Another restaurant job came in from Chuck Franklin and I managed to snap a few pictures this time. I know chuck got some pictures too which will hopefully go up on his website shortly.

With that job finished I am immediately on to another big one which is another library (Troutdale) with Marlene Bauer. The deadline is going to come quickly – it’s going to take all waking hours for the next three or four weeks.

Sandblast Booth Saga

Booth #5

April 6, 2010 2 Comments

Booth-building series Click this link to read from the beginning post.

When I was hired on at Mercury Glass (I think it was about 10 years ago), Bob was wanting to bring his sandblasting operation indoors, and so once again the timing was good and I was set to the task of building another new booth. He already had great ideas on how it was going to work, but he left the details to me. By that point in time I had a pretty sizable wish-list of things I would want to build into the perfect booth, and he let me do most of it. It marked the first time I

Portland Or., Sandblast Booth Saga

Booth #4 – moisture

March 30, 2010 No Comments

Booth-building series Click this link to read from the beginning post.

In 1997 Micky and I made our first attempt at fulfilling our dream of living in the Pacific North West. Without much of a plan, we rolled into town with our 3-year-old and all our stuff, moved into an apartment and started job-hunting. Looking back on it now, it seems like a crazy and impulsive move, but such was our passion about the beauty up north. Within a couple weeks I was fortunate enough to end up with a job at

Sandblast Booth Saga

In the Beginning – booths #1 (and 2)

March 9, 2010 2 Comments

Booth-building series Click this link to read from the beginning post.

Actually, in the beginning there was no booth. At the studio where I had first been employed as a glass artist, I had worked outdoors in a vacant lot. They had been doing it there for I don’t know how many years, and so it was like standing amongst blinding white dunes of silica. Thinking back on it has that same surreal quality as remembering that there was a time when people smoked aboard commercial airline flights or while shopping for groceries – just doesn’t seem real but it was, you know?

The other place where I was blasting back then was under a roof attached to an old shed, but still basically without walls. I came across this photo from 1987 that shows me working at night out behind a place I was renting in Chandler Arizona. I was also using the inside of the shed for building stained glass windows. As enjoyable as it can be to work outside, there are many disadvantages to deal with, such as the little gifts that cats leave for you in your sand.

The next time I was setting up, I decided

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