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Does Size Matter? – Glass Sculpture Size Perception
“Wow, it’s bigger than I expected!” I hear people say this all the time… They say this after seeing some of our glass sculptures in person for the first time…
Cleaning Glass Artwork
Cleaning glass artwork can be simple and straightforward. However, I have some tips to consider to help prevent possible damage while cleaning hand blown glass art…
Repairing Glass Tips
People contact us often about repairing glass. They figure since we make hand blown glass, repairing glass would be a simple thing for us to do. However, most repairs are rarely simple…
Potato in Glass
Dipping a potato in a hot glass furnace may seem like an odd thing to do. This is actually an old glass factory trick…
Making Glass Wall Sculpture Installation
The making of this contemporary art glass wall sculpture installation was a 4 month process. There were many steps involved from start to finish…
Custom Hand Blown Glass
Custom hand blown glass is something we do. Creating custom work can be fun and interesting… And at times, the creative process for custom work can lead to other ideas to explore in our glass sculpture…
Shipping Art Glass Sculpture
Packaging and shipping hand blown art glass sculpture may seem like an afterthought to some… However, making sure your art work has arrived unbroken does take some special care…
Autumn Foliage | Art Glass | Fall Colors
The Autumn Foliage Series of hand blown art glass was inspired by the fall colors found during autumn. Pennsylvania is a great place to be this time of year…
3 Ways To Tell If Glass Art Is Valuable
3 ways to tell if your glass art is valuable… There may be more ways, but most likely there are less. Attaching a value to art in general is very tricky. The price of art compared to its value can be very different…
Why People Buy Art
There are many reasons why people buy art. But for the collector who is passionate about art, one reason looms large…
William Morris Glass Sculpture and Influence
The glass sculpture by William Morris is usually the first thought I have when asked about which contemporary glass artists do I like…
Why Good Ideas Go Bad
Why do some good ideas go bad? All ideas start out as “good ideas”… but along the way some ideas become bad…
Making Something
Making something that has the potential to strike an emotional chord with a viewer… Making something that may encourage someone to think a little deeper…
Dependency in Art and Life
The motif of dependency in art and sculpture has long been an explored subject matter. Whether blatant or subtle, relationships depicted are concluded to have a certain dependency.
Henry Moore Influence
Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth have significantly grown as inspiration and influence on my own artwork and glass sculpture. In the first article, Inspiration in Art, I explained the complexity about inspiration…
Influence Behind My Glass Sculptures
In my previous article about inspiration, I talked about the trickiness with the common question, “What is your inspiration?” In that article, I did not state the actual influence behind my glass sculptures…
Inspiration in Art | Glass Sculpture | Bernard Katz
The inspiration in art and in my own artwork, primarily in my glass sculpture, has for me been a tricky question. Why? Probably the top question besides, “What is it?” that is often asked of an artist, would be, “What is your inspiration?”…
Can’t Draw a Straight Line
"I can't draw a straight line." - I'm sure there is a good chance you may have heard someone make this statement at one time or another. When I hear someone say this, it usually means it is code for - "I am not creative enough to do thing (x), or thing (y)."...