996112 E-Class: Intro to Blowing Soft Glass with Shane Fero Beginner to Intermediate

Shane Fero 1 - Intro to Blowing with Soft Glass e_course channel subscription

This e_course is designed by Zurich Glass School in unison with Shane Fero for beginner to Intermediate level lampworkers/beadmakers to show them how to blow with soft glass. It's a 13 part e_course channel and it is a stand alone course, but there are two further sets of classes to follow. Multiple demos to watch and work on in your own time over a three month period.

In this course we explore how to blow soft glass, create different types of bubbles, make goblets and vases, figures and birds.

This course costs $329.

Really good for beadmakers wishing to learn to blow glass, and sculptors wanting to level up their skills.

Teaching exclusively online for Zurich Glass School we would like to present master lampworker Shane Fero from the USA. Shane Fero teaches goblets, vases, figures and birds.

In this initial Shane 1course,Shane will teach you how to blow with tubing with a focus in soft glass. No special equipment other than your normal lampworking torch is required. Our course will look at the core elements essential to using tubing to create sculptures. Shane will show us how to both pull points and create long point ends which act as both handles and blowing tubes. Centering those initial points is an indispensable aspect of the process and Shane will show us how it is done.

After perfecting these initial tasks, Shane will help us learn how to blow a bubble by sculpting the shape with both breath and hand movements. He will instruct us on how to adjust asymmetrical or misshapen bubbles as glass is the art of readjustment, and arguably a percentage of our work is spent fixing things that are not correct. Shane will also show us how to adjust the thickness of the wall of our tubing and prepare us for setting up our bubble in the form of creating spheres, donuts, elongated ovals and other variations.

Finally, Shane will introduce you to adding colour."We must think of the coloration of our glass as a form of painting in that we can apply color in stages with layers of powders, frits, shards and canes to create tonal qualities as well as shades to achieve our results. The viscosities of the particular chemistries of glass add an extra problem or resolution to our results. It can be challenging, but also rewarding to experiment and bring about new effects and colors."

Please remember, what we are creating is tricky and takes A LOT of practice, logic, patience and an inquiring mind. This e-course is a stand-alone course that is complimented by a Shane1.5: Back to Basics course and a Shane2: Finding your artistic voice course. Our initial Shane Fero 1 course will push your skill level and give you confidence in your ownabilities and empower you to own other types of blown sculpture. As an icing on the cake you will also receive a complimentary private one-on-one consultation with maestro Shane Fero worth$27.00to help you through the tricky bits.

You can work through this course at your own pace. Upon purchase within 24 hours you will be given three months unlimited access to the Shane 1: Introduction to Blowing channel. Please be patient until you receive the email that grants you access to your channel, and the dropbox folder containing all the demo transcriptions to help you with each exercise, PDFs of demonstration steps plus photographs of what you should be aiming for.

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate level, must have own torch