Ok so the one thing that I actually have been doing with this project is working on perfecting my glass spheres that I am hand blowing for this piece. Initially I thought that I had a good technique for making my globes quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately my glass teacher Joel had some other ideas for me. He explained that if I seal off the top opening completely like I have in the first photo, then for whatever reason when it gets cold, the inside of the globe may fog up. As I want to be able to control my piece I definitely don't want this to happen.
As you can see I also messed the shape up a bit, but otherwise it wasn't a bad first attempt.
The technique that my teacher showed me is unfortunately significantly harder than what I had come up with on my own and I am still working on mastering it. The next few images are in chronological order from when I blew them. Another thing that I am working on is the ribbing of the glass. My teacher also brushed me up on that technique as well allowing me to get very fine and well defined ribs. You can see this in some of the later pieces.
The left one is closed off still, and the right one is the first one that he showed me the new technique on.
The ribs are slightly better on this one and you can see the trouble i'm having with getting the hooks on there in a aesthetically pleasing way.
This one didn't come off the pipe cleanly and cracked at the top. The ribs on this one are very nice though so I included it as progress. Most if not all of these will not be used in the final piece and are simply practice copies. While i haven't progressed much digitally, I have at least progressed a lot in this area. In the future I will be buying some glass color called frit. This will allow me to make some very cool looking globes and will really help vary my piece a lot.
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