Item Name:
The Flow Magazine Winter 2012
SKU:
FLOW-WINTER-2012
Description:
The Flow Magazine Winter 2012 is a printed, full-color lampworking magazine issue featuring the 8th Annual Gallery of Women in Glass, showcasing the work of 124 talented female glass artists from around the world. This issue includes three comprehensive step-by-step tutorials by Christina Burkhart, Meital Plotnik, and Jennifer Umphress that focus on reactive glass techniques, decorative beadmaking, and sculptural forms, making it an essential bench-side reference for expanding your artistic repertoire and exploring new design possibilities.
How it is used:
- Use Christina Burkhart's Preparing Reactive Cane tutorial to master the techniques for creating vibrant canes and stringers from reactive glass, learning how to pull thin consistent lines while preserving the glass's brilliant color saturation and how to repurpose old glass scraps into usable material.
- Use Meital Plotnik's Sea Pod Beads tutorial to create imaginative bead designs that began as sea shell concepts and evolved into fantastical sea creatures, practicing stringer control while exploring endless color and shape variations in a forgiving project suitable for all skill levels.
- Use Jennifer Umphress's Froggy Friends tutorial to develop sculptural amphibian forms with detailed body parts and decorative glass shards, learning body construction techniques and connection methods that can be adapted for creating various reptiles and other dimensional sculptural pieces.
- Reference the Women in Glass gallery for design inspiration, color composition ideas, and finishing techniques you can incorporate into your own bead and sculptural work.
