Progress

Today has been a productive day!  This morning I ran a second wood carving workshop for the 'Meadows Trees' project at the Meadows Art Gallery.  Then this afternoon I was working on the Jubilee House commission, and it's starting to feel like I'm getting somewhere!
Last weekend I went to Ingrid Pears' Hot Glass Studio and made some glass pieces to wrap around the sculpture.  Alright, mostly Ingrid made the glass, but I did have a go at adding colour and I did some of the shaping of a solid lump of glass into a rather beautiful cone.  I even blew a little bit.  I'm not good at glass blowing!  I was putting in a lot of effort but not a lot of air came out of the other end of the tube!  The most exciting thing was watching Ingrid pour molten glass over the sand replica of the sculpture.  Here's a picture of some the pieces:

and now the sculpture is drying out by the radiator, hopefully starting to split soon so that I can work out how to put this jigsaw puzzle together.