I am back!

Hello everyone;

I took a break a bit from blogging, so I could read and practice more my engraving.

My blog has not stopped attracting new visitors and I still get messages from all over the place; I hope to now start sharing more about the beautiful art I love.

Here is a new sample and video of one of my latest work. I hope you all can see a bit of progress.

Brusičské sympozium Světlá / glass cutting

Wonderful video - I love the camera angle and the fact that one can actually see the stone making the cut.

Bambi - Engraved lead crystal vase - Viczan

Back in action!! Finally able to do what I love!!!!! What a best way to start than with the beautiful vid of one of my favourite engravers!

Bílek Petr, broušené sklo, rytí skla (Petr Bilek, cut glass, glass engraving)

Gorgeous Video from Владимир Маковецкий

there will be more to come this week from this amazing Russian artist. This blog is officially BACK!

A beautiful sunset and a beautiful letter from Viczan

Of course... one of our favourite master engravers, the amazing Zoltan Viczan and some of his beautiful work. I am so very happy to get to share these photos with our readers.

If you'd like to see more of this amazing amazing artist, like the facebook page of his work:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viczan-Art-Glass/110102389011801?fref=ts

All images are © to Zoltan Viczan and have been used with his permission. Thank you! 

Website for this artist: http://viczan.com

Granite Portrait Engraving by hand

I know I KNOW it is not glass but one can take a look and get the idea of shades and how to use it. Enjoy! I promise to be back this month with a lot more posts. Let me know what you would like to see.

Czech glass

The many faces and delicate work of Nancy Sutcliffe

I really like the beautiful faces and delicate work of Ms. Sutcliffe. She is a drill engraver and I have been following her work for some time and I am now pleased to share it with you. Here in this video you can learn a lot more of this wonderful artist:

The Art of Glass Engraving from Maitri on Vimeo.

To follow Nancy on Facebook click this link:

http://www.facebook.com/NancySutcliffeGlassEngraver

To see some more of her work please click here:

http://nanc61.wix.com/nancysutcliffe#!

Here you have some of her beautiful work...

All image are © to Nancy Sutcliffe and have been used with her permission.

Here is one more video from this amazing artist:

Thank you all for visiting and thanks to the many artists that give me permission and allow me to share their beautiful work with the world.

The beautiful imagination of the talented Mark Raynes Roberts

Eternity close up
Stampede - Bison in Butte, Montana - Dimenions 14"ht x 16"wide x 2"deep
Persistence - Dimensions 14"ht x 11"w x 2"deepPersistence Close up 1Persistence Close up 2The Family - Humpback Whales in Glacier National Park, Alaska - Dimensions 20"ht x 14"wide x 3"deep (60lbs)The Family close up
The Protector - Cougar - Dimensions 16"ht x 12"wide x 3.5"deep
The Protector - Cougar close up
Walk The Line - 2piece sculpture Dimensions 7"ht x 6"wide x 4"deepWalk the Line - side view

"V I S I O N S O F L I G H T

Mark Raynes Roberts

Described as a master craftsman who hails from another era, Mark Raynes Roberts is Canada’s leading crystal artist, engraver and designer with an international reputation for his one-of-kind masterpieces in a medium few have mastered.

Trained as a specialist in engraving on metal, ivory and glass, Raynes Roberts studied in Britain under Ronald Pennell, a leading UK designer and engraver. An award-winning artist, and an Associate Fellow of the British Guild of Glass Engravers, Raynes Roberts creates crystal sculptures remarkable for their hand-engraved precision and detail. His work is broad in scope, including large, 8-foot crystal works, smaller sculptures, themed sculpture collections as well as some of Canada’s best-known, iconic awards. He has participated in many international glass exhibitions and has been honoured with several prestigious exhibiting invitations such as at the New York location of Asprey, crown jewelers to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, where he held two one-man exhibitions in 1998 and 1999. His work has been presented to important leaders from the world of business, the arts, sports and science and resides in private and corporate collections of an international clientele.

Raynes Roberts is a traditionalist who believes that the pursuit of beauty is the role of art. It should be an escape from the ordinary, utilitarian nature of everyday life. Its purpose is to point the viewer towards greater truths and a contemplation of the meaning of human life. Having engraved a 72-foot glass tapestry of panels depicting diverse Canadian landscapes, installed at McMaster University’s Health Sciences Library (now designated a cultural property of Canada), Raynes Roberts would like to communicate landscapes of beauty, not just geographic but spiritual and ethereal; a canvas of glass that would entrance the viewer with its vision of human struggle, desire and transcendence.

He describes the ability of multi-faceted crystal sculpture to magically refract engraved images as the creation of dreamscapes. And it is this dream-like aspect of his engraved crystal pieces which he feels can express issues of human transcendence, a subject he has always wanted to explore in more depth. One of his crystal collections, The Human Spirit Collection, owned by DAREarts, a charitable organization that empowers children, depicted life values such as Persistence and Equilibrium. The sculptures were toured extensively to schools and aboriginal communities, used as talking points to help children in need contemplate the importance of the depicted values in their own lives.

As a humanitarian and artist, Raynes Roberts is interested in exploring how we overcome adversity, how we move beyond pain and conflict, in all aspects of our lives, individually and collectively as a society."

an amazing video of some of his works!

For more information on Mr. Raynes visit his blog at:

http://raynes-raynesblog.blogspot.com/

His web site:

www.markraynesroberts.com

or join him on Facebook!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Raynes-Crystal-Art-Design/267036663328118?v=info

Thank you for visiting!

České sklo - Šteigl Marek

Enjoy! =)

玻璃艺术--刻花 (Glass art - carved) and 艺术玻璃--刻花 孔雀）.玻雕（Art Glass - carved (Peacock). Glass sculpture)

Thank you for visiting! =)

感谢您访问！

paldies, ka apmeklējāt!

شكرا لزيارة!

salamat sa pagbisita!

Vielen Dank für Ihren Besuch!

Děkuji vám za návštěvu!

Благодарим Вас за посещение!

cảm ơn bạn đã ghé thăm!

gracias por su visita!

Leenah

Fler workshop: jak se dělá diatreta (Fler workshop: how to make diatreta)

(click on video to play)

All images are © to Fler Mag. (not quiet sure if all images belong to the same artist)

Please visit this link where you can see the video as well as some other photos. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have =)

http://www.fler.cz/magazin/fler-workshop-jak-se-dela-diatreta-693


***Translated with Google translate*** Only first paragraph of the article.

“When it was first found in the excavations diatreta, experts were amazed. What could our ancestors as early as Roman times, several engravers succeeded in the second half of last century. As of today without these engravings engraving machines, diamond discs, and other paraphernalia were able to produce? We do not know. But we are extremely proud that you can manufacture the diatrety Fler the live show. And show it to you - who else than Diatreta!”

Broušení skla - grinding of glass

beautiful beautiful beautiful video of an amazing artist (who is also quiet handsome) =) I hope you enjoy it!

(not available on mobile)

More of the strikingly beautiful work from the hand of Wendy Johnston Brodd.

All images are © to Wendy Johnston Brood and have been used with her permission.

The truth is, that Wendy's work is one of my favourite if not... the FAVOURITE when it comes to drill engraving and polishing. Wendy's work is breathtaking both in the photos and in the flesh. The polishing and detail she achieves on the glass is magnificent. I still get the same feeling when I see her work I got the very first time I saw a little turtle she engraved. LOVE IT! Like it... and share it! She is AMAZING and such an amazing friend of mine =) and one of my greatest inspirations =)

An engraving by: Yours truly

So... I decided to share one of my engravings =) This is a Mayan symbol engraved on an ashtray. It is not perfect... but I have learnt to appreciate the imperfections of my work... otherwise we stop learning.

here are some step by step photos:

Book review (kind of): Pattern Sheets Hand Glass Engraving Swiss Technique [Loose Leaf]

All images are © to T.Bolliger 1984

I got these as a gift lat week and liked them. Though I tend to like the intaglio engraving more, this is a good way to get an idea of shading and light and how to acquire that look when doing surface engraving.

These sheets have absolutely no instructions, there are just lose sheets for you to use. The number of sheets is 11. Here is an amazon.com link if you are interested in getting it:

http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Sheets-Glass-Engraving-Technique/dp/B005UGXR5Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336663756&sr=8-1

I got # TB-P2 (which has 11 sheets shown in the link above and of course I am giving you some large images here so you can appreciate them)

It very much reminds me of the book :

Glass Engraving Course and Patterns by Eastern Publishing


Which I have reviewed here: http://glassengravers.blogspot.com/2011/09/book-review-glass-engraving-bourse-and.html
It has great instructions and a very nice little book =) You can buy it on amazon.com also : http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Engraving-Course-Patterns-Diamond/dp/B004US0OVS/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336664613&sr=1-2

Thanks for visiting!


Leenah

Cam nasıl yapılır

I totally enjoyed this video =) I hope you do as well.

The soft kisses of Japan’s Ami Kitsuda

From Ami:

"The technique of two works(My Parasol, and Kawasemi) is Stipple engraving.
The technique of the third work(Flower Festival) is Stipple and Line engraving.

The technique of the fourth work(a rose) is Line engraving."

All images are © to Ami Kitsuda and I am honored to have been given her permission to use them.Thank you!

Sometimes… I find hard to express my emotions when I find my eyes staring at the beauty and delicacy of art. I found Ami Kitsuda’s work a few months ago and wrote her to see if she would allow me to use her work on this blog… and she agreed and for that I thank her.
When I see herwork, I am taken into a trance of beauty and imagination. I feel as if her hands; softly and gently kiss the beautiful glass allowing it to live and breath.

She has been an Associate Fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers since 2008.
August, 2008 she published a book about the technique of stipple engraving and line engraving with a Japanese publishing company. (http://book.bijutsu.co.jp)

Here is a link of the book in the guild of glass engravers web site:

http://www.gge.org.uk/store/products/22


You can find more of her work and contact information at the guild of glass engravers:
http://www.gge.org.uk/memberdirectory/view/57

日本からのすべての私の美しい友人に感謝！

A small photo from the book: Glass Engraving Course and Patterns by Eastern Publishing

(click on the photo to enlarge) Image is © to Eastern Publishing.

Glass Engraving Course and Patterns by Eastern Publishing is one of the most popular posts on here and a good little book. I decided to share with you all another photo. I hope you all like it.