Number One (1) Letter A |
Artist: Tod Brown Size: 2.23 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"A and All Alphs" |
Six separate patches of imploded letters float over clear glass, with space between left to allow viewing of mirror images. |
Number Two (2) Letter A |
Artist: Brad Pearson Size: 1.40 Type: Lampworked Soft Glass |
"Just 'A' Marble" |
Brad's signature masking technique was used to form an abundance of dancing A's. The marble was tumbled for a matte finish. |
Number Three (3) Letter B |
Artist: Sabina Boehm Size: 1.38 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"B Kind to Bees" |
This kind of imploded 'B' won't sting, as it floats gracefully inside crystal, with lovely gossamer wings. |
Number Four (4) Letter B |
Artist: Bobbie Seese Size: 1.99 Type: Lampworked Soft Glass |
"Bobbie's Aqua 3D Alien World" |
Beautiful cane form the B for Bobbie, while loads of other sweet cane and dichro take you to a far away water planet. |
Number Five (5) Letter C |
Artist: Mike Close Size: 1.46 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"C's the Day!" |
An imploded fumed C is the centerpiece on one side, with a carved and fumed C on the other. C's it! |
Number Six (6) Letter C |
Artist: Christina Cody Size: 1.68 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"'C' in my Vortex" |
C how it floats effortlessly over the dichro vortex! C that beautiful opal on the back! C me droolin'! |
Number Seven (7) Letter D |
Artist: Devin Somerville Size: 1.57 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"D's Nuts" |
Two imploded cane D's have 2 acorns exploding out of them. An oak tree adorns the backside. These are D's Nuts! |
Number Eight (8) Letter E |
Artist: Eddie Seese Size: 2.31 Type: Furnace-worked Soft Glass |
"AlphaGrana" |
Between sweet filigrana canes are Eddie's E's, 5 per panel, highlighted beautifully against black. Comes w/ matching stand. |
Number Nine (9) Letter F |
Artist: Nathan Miers Size: 1.84 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Ffffffffantastic!" |
Some top tube tech was used to create this colorful 'little f', resting over a bed of UV dichro galaxy, with a sweet backside. |
Number Ten (10) Letter G |
Artist: Roy 'Gremlin' Hicks Size: 1.70 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"G.F.O." |
An organic flying saucer carrying its G through deep space navigates a black hole. Nine G's are on and in the marble. |
Number Eleven (11) Letter G |
Artist: Gateson Recko Size: 1.16 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"G in Recession" |
A sweet green G, carved in shallow relief into an alien landscape, sits above a quad triple red milli backside. |
Number Twelve (12) Letter H |
Artist: Josh Hamra Size: 1.05 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Full House" |
From Josh's Patchwork Dichro series comes this marble with 6 patches of sizzling green/gold dichro and 8 murrini H's over cobalt |
Number Thirteen (13) Letter I |
Artist: Josh Sable Size: 1.36 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"I Yi Yiiiiiiii!" |
The I's have it in implosion heaven, where pulled dots abound. Sweet green&blue surround Josh's double t-bolt milli on the back. |
Number Fourteen (14) Letter J |
Artist: JD Anderson Size: 1.53 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"J is for JD's Jelly" |
The J's peek out from under the Jellyfish, tangled up in the tentacles. The backside sports a Jelly Jam fantasy! |
Number Fifteen(15) Letter K |
Artist: Stan Skipper Size: 1.83 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Y2K?" |
K's on both sides done with frit pickups give us a fresh and shiny new perspective on why 2 K's? Could've been just one ya know. |
Number Sixteen (16) Letter L |
Artist: Zachary Jorgenson Size: 1.38 Type: Lampworked Soft Glass |
"A Path to Inspiration" |
A visual narrative of the abstract using cold and hotworked murrine, from the Colt .45 to Garcia-Lorca to dancers & peace. |
Number Seventeen (17) Letter M |
Artist: Richard Hollingshead Size: 1.44 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Magnifico!" |
An imploded cane-style M bursts up from the Milky depths, while M's galore fill a sweet t-bolt on the back. |
Number Eighteen (18) Letter N |
Artist: Travis Weber Size: 2.15 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"N-trapment" |
A murrine N is trapped in a complex fumed Web(er), while its companion N blazes forth in glory on the gorgeous backside. |
Number Nineteen (19) Letter O |
Artist: Stan Skipper Size: 1.94 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"O o o - I like this one!" |
O's abound on this marble done with tubing tech and also some encalm-O. And don't forget the O-pal! |
Number Twenty (20) Letter O |
Artist: JD Anderson Size: 1.51 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Ring Toss" |
O's are everywhere behind this fancy gold jelly, while several of them have hit their mark and are strangling some tentacles. |
Number Twenty-One (21) Letter P |
Artist: Carl Fisher Size: 2.16 Type: Polymer Clay over Glass Core |
"P is for Polymer Clay" |
20 individual and unique polymer clay canes, handmade by Carl, are laid over a glass core. One is an artist self portrait. |
Number Twenty-Two (22) Letter Q |
Artist: Rob Bartley Size: 2.04 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Qlown Fish" |
Eleven Qlown fish explode from the cobalt depths in formation, while a myriad of other fish swim both inside the vortex and out. |
Number Twenty-Three (23) Letter R |
Artist: Josh Sable Size: 1.54 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Rocket" |
Black and White work in concert to focus all eyes on the R, Rocketing skyward from the Raking below. |
Number Twenty-Four (24) Letter S |
Artist: Ken 'Spider' Schneidereit Size: 1.24 Type: Lampworked Soft Glass |
"S is for Songbird" |
Two Songbirds Sing together in this special murrine made by Spider, with complementary colors Spiraling on the backside. |
Number Twenty-Five (25) Letter S |
Artist: Richard Hollingshead Size: 1.78 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Sssup Ladies?" |
It's an S on a Sweet flowery platter, Spiraling up from the depths, while an S disc says 'Specially for you my lady!' |
Number Twenty-Six (26) Letter T |
Artist: Tod Brown Size: 2.01 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Ton o' T's" |
Using his nifty layered tech, Tod loaded a Ton o' T's in this one, while 'abc Contest' holla's from the back! |
Number Twenty-Seven (27) Letter T |
Artist: Ayako Hattori Size: 1.39 Type: Lampworked Satake Glass |
"T is for Teal Vine Rose" |
The Tasty T forms the vine for this wondrous display of Teal Roses over a Teal base of soft satake glass. |
Number Twenty-Eight (28) Letter U |
Artist: Bo Stiff Size: 1.60 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Eye Heart U!" |
I love U, I see U, and I want U, as cane and murrine float over a deep blue dichro base, with flower milli and more U's behind. |
Number Twenty-Nine (29) Letter V |
Artist: Steve Willis Size: 1.13 Type: Lampworked Soft Glass |
"Voyage" |
Steve transformed silver wire mesh into gold, traveling through the depths of blue space into a golden lutz galaxy. |
Number Thirty (30) Letter V |
Artist: Mike Close Size: 2.36 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"V is for Vortex" |
V is indeed for Vortex, as the imploded window states, while V's on the side cheer on their trapped V brother. |
Number Thirty-One (31) Letter W |
Artist: Rich Shelby Size: 1.86 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Weightless" |
Pure copper, from the chips to the planes to the gravity-free 'W' are encased inside, with a whirlwind of bubbles floating away. |
Number Thirty-Two (32) Letter X |
Artist: Brad Pearson Size: 1.50 Type: Lampworked Soft Glass |
"X Marks the Spot" |
A band of X's marks every spot on the equator in this nicely masked marble, which was tumbled for a sultry matte finish. |
Number Thirty-Three (33) Letter X |
Artist: Kevin Nail Size: 1.36 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"The 'Real' XBox 360" |
Bill Gates has got nuthin' on this marble, where sandblasted windows give 360 degree views of Kevin's special rainbow Xbox. |
Number Thirty-Four (34) Letter X |
Artist: Calvin Sugita Size: 1.82 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Xuberant Jelly" |
Super shiny golden mirrors serve as backdrops for a quad of imploded X's and their Xuberant backside jellyfish. |
Number Thirty-Five (35) Letter Y |
Artist: Ayako Hattori Size: 1.48 Type: Lampworked Satake Glass |
"Y is for Yellow Okra Flower" |
The Yellow okra flower vine forms the Y in this tribute to southern fried temptation on a lush green satake base! |
Number Thirty-Six (36) Letter Y |
Artist: James Mills Size: 1.38 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"Y? Because it's There!" |
A fumed 'y' literally explodes from the depths of this galactic vortex, with a fancy pinwheel and scale pattern on the backside. |
Number Thirty-Seven (37) Letter Z |
Artist: John Bridges Size: 1.63 Type: Lampworked Boro |
"ZAZZ" |
A 'ZAZZ' with some pizazz, where two puffy Z's hover on two sides over top of a sweet blue twisted core. |
2008 Alphabet Contest |
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