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Creativity Boot Camp
for the Glass Beadmaker

Techniques and exercises to wake up your muse, help you defeat creative slumps, and bring excitement back to your torch sessions!

We've all been there. You dip your mandrels, turn on the tanks, crank up the kiln, sit down at the torch, and...nothing. You have no idea what to make! For the working artist, few things are as depressing as an uninspired or unproductive day in the studio — or, worse, a whole string of them: the dreaded Creative Slump.

Here's the perfect remedy for those "blah" days: A fun, inspiring workbook devoted entirely to the care and feeding of your muse. Packed with helpful tips and creative assignments that you'll be able to turn to for a jump start any time you need one, Creativity Boot Camp for the Glass Beadmaker has one simple, all-important goal: To prime your creative pump and bring a sense of discovery and excitement back to your torch sessions. Whether you've got a case of burnout or just want to take your glass art in a new direction, the ideas, techniques and exercises provided in these pages will help you rekindle your creative spark, break out of your comfort zone, and develop a newfound sense of artistic confidence. If you're ready to kick it into high gear and start working to your full creative potential, the first steps are waiting for you in this invaluable guide. Included:

• The top creativity killers and how to avoid them
• Getting tough on your inner primadonna and developing a "no excuses" work ethic
• How to protect your creative spirit when your art is your living
• The daily habits that will reward you with a constant flow of ideas
• The one absolutely foolproof way to break any creative block
• Improvising with confidence: Learning to trust your instincts
• Setting limits to ignite the creative process
• Fundamental design elements and how to reshuffle them in endless combinations to keep your work fresh and exciting
• Professional ethics and creative borrowing: How to draw inspiration and ideas from the work of other artisans without ever fearing that you've crossed an ethical line
• Rich sources of inspiration that every glass artist should know about

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• Pages and pages of hands-on exercises, assignments and creative prompts that will provide you with instant motivation at the torch, any time you need it!

E-book in PDF Format, with full-color photos
55 pages. 2.4MB

$25.00 $12.50

 

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Sculptural Glass, Vol. 2:
TEA ROSES

e-book in PDF Format
31 pages with detailed full-color photos

Complete step-by-step instruction on creating my "Tea Roses" series beads. In this tutorial, I take you through the entire process of making detailed, highly-realistic sculptural roses, providing tips on heat control, forming natural-looking petals and sepals, selecting the best colors, and keeping your flowers delicate in appearance while making sure they are stable and structurally sound. Also included are step-by-step tutorials on creating the matching leaves, realistic vine cane, and petite rosebuds that are perfect for earrings.

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Taming Terra

Full Color e-book in PDF Format
40 pages

A beadmaker's working guide to getting the most out of Double Helix's most beautiful and enigmatic glass. This comprehensive e-book covers both the original (2007) and later (2012) versions of Terra, including the new "Fast Striking" batches. In these pages I'll share with you everything I know about working both original and latter-day versions of Terra, from striking the glass and keeping your colors in the kiln to the base glasses that will really make Terra's colors pop. Includes step-by-step instruction on my "Essential Terra" series beads (shown left) and how-to's for other designs, as well as tips on fun ways to use Terra in your work to beautiful effect.

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Bluff Road Art Glass Color Archive

Full Color e-book in PDF Format

(Limited Print Edition also available. Click here for details!)

- 152 pages
- Complete color information on 172 bead designs
- Over 200 full color photographs
- Foreword by Jed Hannay of Double Helix Glassworks
- Indexed by Glass Manufacturer and Color
- Technical Notes section on working my favorite glasses
- Standard and High Resolution versions included

The Bluff Road Art Glass Color Archive, 2000-2010 is a complete color reference on my most popular lampwork designs of the past decade. Featuring 152 pages and 172 bead designs, with over 200 full color photographs, the Color Archive is not a how-to or a step-by-step tutorial, but rather, an elegantly presented "cookbook" of glass recipes — an invaluable reference compiling for the first time the complete details on exactly which colors and brands of glass were used to create my best-selling and most talked-about bead designs. This full-color e-book in PDF format contains thorough indexes by manufacturer/glass color and also by bead name, which will allow you to quickly find inspiring examples of what you can do with a given color, or look up the color recipes for your favorite designs. Also included are working tips on my favorite glasses, technical notes for some of the more difficult designs, and a compilation of helpful color-related resources. Whether you're looking for inspiration to wake up your muse and tips on how to combine colors for maximum impact, or you just love bead-related eye candy, this gorgeous, lovingly prepared reference is a must-have for the lampworker who is serious about color.

All of the featured designs utilize 104COE or 96COE soft glass.

Important: This package includes the full standard version (14MB) of the Color Archive, suitable for viewing on computer or iPad and for reasonable quality home printing, as well as a high resolution version (287 MB) for high quality printing. Please note that the high resolution version will take significantly more time to download than the standard version - a minimum of 15-20 minutes on a fast DSL connection. If you plan to use the PDF exclusively on your computer or iPad or don't need high quality printing, you can save time by downloading the standard version only.

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$60.00 $30.00

Sculptural Glass, Volume 1: Bones
Full Color e-book in PDF Format
29 pages, with over 90 full color photographs

Step-by-step instruction on creating 2 different designs
from my series of ornamental bones.

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Silver Glass, Volume 3: Patina Florals
Full Color e-book in PDF Format
40 pages, with over 120 full color photographs

Step-by-step instruction on the creation of my Patina Florals beads, including the construction of a versatile floral murrini that you can use in countless other designs.

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Silver Glass, Volume 1: Ether
Full Color e-book in PDF Format
20 pages

Step-by-step instruction on the creation of my Ether series beads.

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Silver Glass, Volume 2:
Ghost Opals and Shell Mosaics
Full Color e-book in PDF Format
25 pages

Step-by-step instruction on two different silver glass designs:
Ghost Opals and Shell Mosaics.

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