New project with a new look for my glass.

                          NEW PROJECT!!

Whilst totally inspired by Rene Lalique I've started to have a go at cire perdue, or lost wax casting. 

So far I've only made a couple of wax items; the hard part is yet to come. I have made two wave sculptures in modelling wax, each about 10cm high. The wax was part of a kit I bought froma company called Warm Glass.

The wax gets dipped in plaster which then dries, the wax is melted out with a common or garden wallpaper stripper (steamer), the hollow shape filled with crushed glass which is fired. After a slow cool the plaster is removed and the item cleaned up. Sounds easy but probably won't be!

If it works the new items will be announced and released onto the website.

Still working on the knitted ferret mascot. Too many distractions! Besides, it's more of a winter thing. Can't waste this good weather sitting indoors.                          XXXX artferret  12.9.14.

Well what do you know, I had a Google Blog all the time..

And the big news story today is my website is now complete and also is compatible with smart phones, ipads and all that other hand held malarky.

http://lindaezlxq141.wix.com/artferret

A showcase for my talents of the artistic variety, and a few ferret fun facts and fancies flung in.

Stuff to see: Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock, Glass beads, lamp worked glass beads, original artwork, bead kits, glass brooches, fused glass, Standing stones, prints, party poppers, life drawings, nude ladies, abstract paintings, acrylic paintings, sculpture, collage, ferrets.

Lots to buy or just look at.

Take a squint if you've a mind.

XX artferret.
10.8.14

Introduction

Who the hell am I? If only I knew. Rumour has it I was raised by a pack of wild guinea pigs in the outer northern reaches of Bristol sometime in the last century. Escaping school by gnawing through my chain I took up the life of a vagabond artist, and extreme poverty.
Interests include: art, ferrets, rats, natural sciences generally, archiving, comedy, Doctor Who, animation, cycling, surfing, swimming, film, writing and I may add more later. If you're not careful.

More stuff soon.