The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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Dimensions
Image:
8.00" x 8.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 13.50"
Orange Swirls Framed Print
by Kimberly Lyon
Product Details
Orange Swirls framed print by Kimberly Lyon. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Yes, these are photographs. Photographs of glass pieces I create in my studio. It all begins with some small pieces of glass and clay pots with... more
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Artist's Description
Yes, these are photographs. Photographs of glass pieces I create in my studio. It all begins with some small pieces of glass and clay pots with holes in the bottom. Not just any glass, but specialty fusible glass that is made so that the different colors are compatible with each other when heated and cooled. While the final patterns cannot be determined, the way the glass is stacked in the pots does have an effect on the finished melt. Different sizes and shapes of holes also have an effect.
The pot of glass is placed in the kiln suspended over a kiln shelf with a barrier to keep the molten glass contained. The kiln is heated slowly to just under 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature at which the glass has melted and is flowing through the holes in the pot creating the final patterns. Once the glass has emptied from the pot it is allowed to cool and anneal.
Using a Nikon D3200 DSLR camera with a macro lens, the search for the most interesting places to photograph begins. A...
About Kimberly Lyon
I first began exploring and working with glass in 1989, while employed as a research biochemist in New York. I had always admired many types of glass, including stained, torch-worked and blown, but had focused on science rather than art or craft until this time. My first pieces were created using the copper-foil stained glass methods, learned from a book and, later, videos and experimentation. Kiln-worked glass was beginning to re-emerge as a respected glass art form around this time, and I found it to be an intriguing and less common technique to use to achieve some of the designs I envisioned. At this point, I was just interested in creating glass pieces for myself and as gifts, but friends coerced me into showing my work at art...
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Gene Mark
Beautiful and interesting image!
Kimberly Lyon replied:
Thank you Gene!
Jeff Swan
Wowza Kimberly this is stunning
Kimberly Lyon replied:
Thank you Jeff!
Omaste Witkowski
Congratulations on your Feature in the Abstract Photography group. v/f
Kimberly Lyon replied:
Thank you Omaste! Glad I found this and the macro glass photography group.