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The Glass Horse Pendant Tutorial

I love to create this very litte horse pendants but they are a formidable challenge
and so I am able to do not more than one or two of them on one day. Then I have to go back to other sculptures and figurines because my eyes are to tired then for a third.

I will list some of my recently created horse pendants within the next days, but if you have fallen in love with these little beauties, you can here also take a commission and tell me what color (it can have more than one mixed and marbleized in body and mane) or what posture it shall have (in this case, please send me a photo). So you will get your stunning OoAK jewelry.

Please note this:
Glass can break but normally not while you wear it, because ist ist not nearly as fragile as it seems and your soft skin will also protect it. But it will not resist falling on hard ground or any grinding (so please keep it seperate from stone- and metalljewelry.

If you keep this in mind, your little horse has a very good prospect of getting very, very old.

length of pendant: 0.7 - 1 inches (nostrils to tip of the tail)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/126692129/flameworked-glass-horse-pendant?

Eunsuh Choi, The European Museum of Modern Glass and me

I am brimming over with excitement about meeting Eunsuh Choi on May 11, 2013. 

She will show her amazing and delicate art at the 10th Regional Museums Night at European Museum of Modern Glass while I will be busy unleashing visitors’ creativity right beside her in the lampwork studio. If you are in the vicinity of Rödental b. Coburg, Germany, please come across!


http://www.choiglass.com/

http://www.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de/en/europaeisches-glasmuseum-sonderausstellungen-veranstaltungen-aktuell.php

 

The Patron of Art - The Maecenas - and the Idea of Freedom

My dear friends, life is getting to my nerves.
Literally.
After I trapped one of them in my back between two intervertebral discs, I had some days off, reading and wincing and not very happy. All the while I could not work and time and money where running out. :-(

And while I read, some phantastic, some SciFi and a little bit of medieval I begann questioning myself - is there some of the tradition still alive, when rich and influential people took patronage of artists? So I scanned the great wide opens of the internet and found lots of statements that there are still maecenas and they still do the patronage thing for artist, museums and artschools.

But how do they find each other?

I really thought about it and find it hard to imagine how life would be if you had not all day long the struggle of shear surviving. When you could make "your true art" without spending a thought on "will it sell?", "will I be able to pay my bills?"..

But what about freedom? Is the sponsored artist still free or more the pet of his maecenas?

What do you think?

All I want to do ist "Art". It builds up inside of me and then it breaks through - but sleeping peacefully for the first time in years, knowing, there is no struggling of survival, knowing, there ist pure creative energy flowing rough you waiting to take shape...wouldn´t that be alluring?

Found this very interesting Artikel: Patronage and the Status of the Artist

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Giant Schnauzer - commissioned work

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