RIP Jiří Harcuba

It was posted on facebook that Mr. Harcuba passed away this morning. A very sad day for those who learnt from him and those who love the beautiful art of glass engraving. May he rest in peace.

This is the Corning Museum of glass page on Mr. Harcuba

http://www.cmog.org/bio/ji-harcuba


Please take a moment in the name of this wonderful artist. Thank you.

Foredom : K.1070 High Speed Rotary Micromotor

I just got this a couple of weeks ago and just tried it for the first time and I LOVED IT! If you can get your hands on a micromotor DO IT! Such a nice lil machine. Here is a vid:



I haven't played with it as much as I would love to.... but I will this week (I have been quite busy with my calligraphy) Anyway, if you are interested in getting one of these babies you can find them here:

http://www.foredom.net/k1070.aspx

Great customer service from Foredom! and this is one of my 4 engraving toys =)

Have a great week!

Leenah 

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

Art glass butterfly engraving

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.