Seventh Tutorial

Winter break 2019-20, and we were again blessed to have both kids home for the holidays. While our daughter was immersed in prep for her MCAT exams, I managed to get our son involved in my Glass work. He wanted to make something from the Game of Thrones TV drama series, and we settled on the Dragon Eggs.
Luckily, I had the perfect sheet glass and powder glass frit colors required.
Now came the difficult part: while I like free flowing designs, our son has more of an exacting, engineer’s attitude. So we had to figure out a way to precisely engineer the scales. The final method was SO SIMPLE…again proving the age old adage that ‘less is more’!
Making the flat egg-shaped ovals was one thing…shaping them into a half-egg proved quite the issue. We had to shape a flat, textured piece into a deep bowl, while maintaining the structure of the scales.
With the help of a few friends from my ‘Glassy’ world, I a) learned to make a mold out of clay, and b) received an ‘egg’ mold from Stephanie O’Tool of CPI . Both worked superbly…the CPI mold is smaller while the Clay mold was a good 5.5” long.
I mounted the 3 Glass eggs on a frame made by my husband, and backlit them with fairy led’s for dramatic effect.