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.

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)

beautiful cameo engraving by the wonderful Terri Colledge

Once again, the amazing Terri L. Colledge, awesome video =0) I hope you all enjoy it. To see some more of her work please click here :

 http://glassengravers.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-exotic-soft-and-lifelike-cameo.html

Here is the amazing video : 

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

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.

More beautiful work from the hand of talented Miki Kubo

Here is some more beautiful stuff by the amazing Miki. One word: gorgeous!

To see our other post of Miki please click here:

http://glassengravers.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-murmure-delicat-de-miki-kubo.html

Miki's web site:

http://www.mikikubo.com

Here is a video of some of Miki's work:

Some more of her beautiful detailed works:

All images are © to Miki Kubo and have been used with her permission. 

Nick Davey.... More of his amazing skills.

So... Nick is also one of my favourite drill engravers of all times. Though I have been trying to get in touch with Mr. Davey with out success =\ I am still thrilled to find more and more about him. Here are some photos of his works and an amazing video.

Here you have some stills from the video:

This is the link to the video:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12890777

And here are some more photos of his beautiful work:

All images are © to Dartington Crystal and Video images are © to BBC

Thank you for visiting!

More of Wendy Johsnton Brodd; one of my favourite artists.

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

Wendy is by far one of my favourite drill engravers in the world. There is a softness and this eye for detail that I really admire (just look at the eye on the bird and tree on photo #2); so I am always very excited to share her work with you all.

To see more of Wendy's work on this blog please click here:

http://glassengravers.blogspot.com/search?q=wendy+brodd&max-results=20&by-date=true

Have a wonderful days.

Leenah

Another engraving by yours truly

Here is my latest, I learnt so much with the last one I did and followed the advise of James Riser and used lower speed where I needed to, thus making the edges a little more clean. I was pretty pleased.... Though I still have lots to learn.

I did this using the Proxxon Drill, diamond burrs and just a bit of stone burrs, very light polishing at the bottom.

Feel free to post a comment if you have any questions. I will be posting some information about the tools I used.

Leenah

Cinderella's glass slipper by Zoltan Viczan

This nice bid by my dear friend Zoltan. You get a chance to see the before and after and the beautiful slippers he has engraved. Thanks for sharing this with Zoltan.

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

The Wife of Llew (The beautiful glass engraving by the talented Susan Burne)

All photos are © to Mrs. Burne and have been used with her permission.

Such a beautiful piece and so well crafted. The images seem to come alive when you look at the beautiful piece of art. Sue explains of the vase:

"In the legend Blodeuwedd is created for Llew by his magician uncle but is unfaithful to her husband and as punishment is turned into an owl".

I wanted to share this with you all today. I have known Sue for a few years... and she is such a sweet, talented and kind woman. She recently shared her work with us and I asked if I could share it on my this blog with you all. Sue is a drill engraver who started her work with glass back in 2001. She is an associate fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers and a craft member of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen. To see more of Sue's work visit her web site:

http://www.sueburne.co.uk/

Thank you so much for visiting!

Rytí skla, sklářská škola Nový Bor (Glass engraving, glass school Novy Bor)

Beautiful video and quiet detailed. I hope you enjoy it! (not available on mobile)

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:

Sketchy Monday....

Here is a photo and it's sketch, for those having a hard time finding sketches :)