One of the concepts from the Peter Senge’s book the Fifth Discipline is Personal Mastery.
“People with a high level of personal mastery live in a continual learning mode. They never ‘arrive’. Sometimes, language, such as the term ‘personal mastery’ creates a misleading sense of definiteness, of black and white. But personal mastery is not something [...]
Here is my final project. I took this picture with my phone at end of class today. I used some of the colors in my Calrsbad Cavern color sample. I decided to model my pattern after a quilt. Now all I need to do is decide how to finish it!
The class was great. I can’t wait to start applying what [...]
Here are two pictures I took with my IPhone of some of my favorite samples from the Color Theory Workshop.
This has been a great experience. I’m looking at color in a new way. My final project if firing in the kiln tonight. I pulled some of the colors from the Carlsbad Cavern inspired sample, and [...]
Today my favorite exercise was creating color samples base on images. The goal of this activity wasn’t to create a stylized version of a photograph, but to create a glass sample based on the colors found in an image.
I used a Time Life book with photographs from all over the world as a point of [...]
This week I’m taking a class at Vitrum Studios with Richard Parrish called Color Theory for Glass: Fear No Color. Yesterday we looked at the Bullseye Glass line of opaque and transparent glass in the context of the color wheel. This was an interesting exercise that has opened my eyes to a new way of [...]
I’ve been working through a book titled Coaching the Artist Within by Eric Maisel. I have had time to reflect on what I have read and one of the statements that has stuck with me is “You must be able to create in the middle of things or you will not create.”
When I read this [...]
At one point last year between my two businesses I needed to spend about six weeks on the road. To keep myself centered during my stint as a road warrior. I started working on a beaded evening bag project.
I picked up a satin evening bag at the department store, selected some of my dichroic glass [...]
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