January 7, 2010 at 10:08 am

Requires Any Artistic Skill Set

These are the basic steps outlined to create an etched glass design easily that Anyone can do when as they follow along.  For example, I’m not a perfect artisan; most people don’t even think of me as a type of person with amazing artistic abilities.  I really am not amazingly skilled like some famous etchers, but I do have some creative ideas.  And that’s all it takes to do this, just have an idea of what you want to etch. 

Ok, now I want to focus on the real artists that actually do have a lot of skill and creative ideas.  With your talent, you can go above and beyond doing just a simple technique that anyone can do (even if it looks like an amazing artist did it in the first place) by etching with the advanced techniques such as shading and multi-stage carving with a planned design.  This is where glass etching becomes even more fun and a very interesting art form.  The weird thing about glass etching art is it’s not known as large as other forms of art, but yet it is one of the most phenomenon works of art creation.

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  1. KellyCraig

    June 8th, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Some of us have imagination, but lack certain artistic skills. That’s me. However, I’d be a terrible hunter without tools (e.g., hunting rifles, bazookas, Safeway, etc.). Similarly, there are things called copy machines, stencil machines and – opaque projectors.

    I bought my first opaque projector thirty years ago. I only paid about eighty for it. Interestingly, I could now sell it for a tidy profit. I wont though. It allows me to steal from the best (after their dead and the copyright has expired too, of course). In fact, projectors have helped me so much I had three, until recently, when I sold one (remember that tidy profit thing, okay, I’d picked it up at a garage sale a year before).

    I’ve used my little opaque projector to project a belt buckle onto paper, then transfer it to a window. It worked wonderfully.

    A few years back I picked up a large, very high quality projector for five dollars, as a swap meet. It was an old school unit and the optics are remarkable. The go well beyond my little unit. I’d always wanted one, but at fifteen hundred or more, it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon for this hobbyist. So keep your eyes out (eBay, a wanted ad on craigslist, etc) if you want to open some very large doors.

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