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Butterfly Flower Sandblasted Shaded Glass Art

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Eric Robert Posted in Blog Content 10 Comments

I took the photograph  and using Adobe Illustrator vectored the image. Using this vectored image I hand traced it onto the resist material to be applied to the glass. Carefully I hand cut each piece and then numbered each piece in the order I would be pulling them off. From there it was just a matter of using a blasting pressure of around 15 to 20 pounds and shading each pull to the desired look. Looking closely at the butterfly you will see the tiny dots on the outer edge of the wings. To get this I simply got my hand engraver and placed the dots where needed.


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10 thoughts on “Butterfly Flower Sandblasted Shaded Glass Art”

  1. Charming Lane Glass says:
    July 1, 2012 at 11:02 am

    Beautiful!!!

  2. BradsGlassArt says:
    July 1, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Thank you Charming Lane Glass

  3. Doug says:
    July 3, 2012 at 12:10 am

    Hi Brad. Funny seeing you here! I like this a lot better.

  4. Brad says:
    July 3, 2012 at 12:32 am

    Hi Doug! Small world isn’t it? 🙂

  5. Doug says:
    July 3, 2012 at 12:43 am

    Back at ya! Butterfly is looking GOOD, wink, wink.

  6. Eric Robert says:
    July 3, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    Thanks for posting Brad. This etching is amazing. Would you want to include a larger photo of it?

    I can email my newsletter subscribers about it if you’d like.

  7. Brad says:
    July 4, 2012 at 9:34 am

    Thank you Eric. I’d be honored to have you email your newsletter subscribers about my butterfly flower. Love the new changes to the website. Keep up the great work on it.

  8. Doug says:
    July 4, 2012 at 11:08 am

    I like the way you went to your mechanical etcher for the dots. So many times we get stuck in one tool and forget about the others.

  9. dave says:
    September 26, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    very nice Brad, thats the only type of etching I do now

  10. Brad says:
    September 26, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    Thank you Dave. I am leaning more to etching than the carving right now. I do enjoy both though.

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