Item Name:
The Flow Magazine (Winter 2011)
SKU:
FLOW-WINTER-2011
Description:
The Flow Magazine (Winter 2011) is a printed, full-color flameworking magazine issue built around artist features, community coverage, and step-by-step lampworking tutorials. This issue is centered on The Flow’s 7th Annual Gallery of Women in Glass and, per the publisher’s Winter 2011 information, includes a large gallery of work by female glass artists along with multiple full-color tutorials by featured contributors. ABR’s listing for this issue specifically calls out tutorials from: Rocio Bearer, Judy Carlson, Bronwen Heilman, Anne Londez, Zora Parker, Lisa St. Martin, Mirriam Steger-van der Schneck, and Jeri Warhftig.
Tutorials and technical features available from The Flow’s Winter 2011 archive include:
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Zora Parker: Mermaid
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Judy Carlson: Puffin Beads
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Bronwen Heilman: The Stringer Test—Finding Compatibility in Glass
How it is used:
- Use Zora Parker’s Mermaid tutorial to learn how to build the basic mermaid sculpture form, then roll the piece in frit and melt it in to develop color and texture, finishing with details like hair, a crown, and tail fins.
- Follow Judy Carlson’s Puffin Beads tutorial to practice sculptural beadmaking techniques for bird forms, including shaping a clear head and body separation and using a stable black glass for the puffin’s head and back.
- Apply Bronwen Heilman’s Stringer Test to evaluate compatibility between two rods of unknown COEs by pulling stringers and reading the curve behavior that indicates stress and incompatibility.
