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!

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! =)

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

The elegant works of Mr. Philip Lawson Johnston

(make sure to click "play" on the video above) All images are © to Mr. Philip Lawson Johnston and have been used with his permission.


Fit for a queen.... I love the works of Mr. Johnston and feel so honored to have been given permission by Mr. Johnston himself to share his works with you all. Visit his website and see the rest of his works. Very beautiful and very elegant.

For more information, visit his web site at:

http://www.glassengraver.net/

and some more of his works:

http://www.commissionaportrait.com/artistsportfolio.asp?id=232

Thanks again for visiting and thank you eternally to Mr. Johnston for allowing me to share his works with you. Mr. Johnston... you leave me speechless! =)

Leenah 

One of my all time favourite pieces....

All images are © to Zoltan Viczan and used with permission.


This is one of my favourite pieces. It was done by one of my good friends and one of the best engravers in the world. Mr. Zoltan Viczan. I love this piece because it is simple and delicate and the hands are beautifully engraved. It is simply breath taking.

Lets do a little sketching.... Shall we?

Here is a photo, for those of you who like to engrave roses. I found this photo on line, flipped it ( I normally engrave intaglio so my photos have to be the opposite way when I trace them on to the glass) and then sketched it on my iPhone with an app called "sketch me" (which we have talked about before. Here is the info about this app on the blog:

http://glassengravers.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-photo-to-sketch-making-things.html

Well here is the photo! I hope you like it =)

Also want to say "thank you" to the visitors from France, Germany, Malta, Spain, Russia and so many other countries! I really appreciate it =) Thank you all

Pittsburgh Glass Center

The masterful details of Viczan Zoltan

All images are © to Viczan Zoltan, and have been used with his permission.

When I first saw the engravings of Viczan Zoltan, I was impressed by the clean beautiful cuts and details added not only to the animals he engraves, but to the human figures. His glass cuts are beautiful… as beautiful as the clean cuts and polishing in his pieces. He has such an amazing eye for detail and perspective and if you see his works in person you can see the delicatessen and soft touch added to each piece. His works are gems thus making him one of the very best engravers I have come across and one of the most talented as well as one of the nicest people I have ever met. I am so honored to call him my friend and so very happy to have him on my blog. Please visit his website :

http://www.viczan.com/

I will be posting some more of his work and a close up so you can see the beautiful details acquired by this master engraver… His polishing is simply astonishing!

Getting lost in the dreams of Japan’s own Hiroko Shoami. Glass engraver extraordinaire!

All images are © to Hiroko Shoami and have been used with the humble permission given by the artist.

I came across Hiroko’s work when I was doing some research on line and went to the web site of the guild of glass engravers. I thought it was quiet amazing and extraordinary. The techniques used by this amazing engraver are Stipple, line, sandblasting, point engraving and copper wheel engraving and as you can see a soft amazing finished is acquired by doing so. I am so honored to have been given permission by Hiroko and given some photos to share with the rest of you. Please visit Hiroko’s web site:

http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~glas/works.html

Again thank you so very much to Hiroko for giving me the permission to share with our visitors these astonishing pieces of art.

The enchanted myths of Edmond.

All images are © to Edmond Suciu and we are humbled to have been given permission to use them.

I found Edmond a while ago, and loved his engravings. They remind me of a Greek sculpture. An artist who instead of marble works on glass. I love the detail, proportions and versatility of his work. His subjects are full of expressions and movement and the soft cuts make them look as if they have been laced with divinity… The divinity of his hands. Thank you Edmond for allowing me to share your work with the readers.

Please visit his website: http://www.edmondartglass.com/