At Saturday’s Phoenix Festival in Twisp I spent some time watching Samantha Carlin create a glass vase. Samantha’s studio, Lucid Glassworks, is located on the TwispWorks campus and she was doing glass blowing demonstrations. I’d never watched the process from start to finish before. She explained each step along the way and it was obvious that she really enjoys what she does!
The work table
Colors bits of glass to decorate the plain glass
Getting a gob of glass
Shaping
A finished vase
Adding color
Heating it up to keep it pliable
Shaping
Blowing
Shaping
Blowing
More heat
Looking like a vase
Getting ready to work on the top
Now she can shape the top
More heat
Viewed through the safety screen
Almost done
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