Geoffrey Beetem demo, Friday evening |
Working with the initial cane pickup |
Marvering, etc. |
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Adding a gather of glass from the tank |
Hot and glowing, ready to roll it |
Have to roll it into tubular, almost cylindrical |
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As it's rolled, Geoff begins to add the twist to the core |
Have to keep the core hot |
Forming the marble with a mold |
Keeping it hot in the right places |
Marble is off the cane, now removing the punty |
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Finished marbles taken to the kiln one at a time to slowly cool |
Finished marble, 2 2/3" |
Glass is clear, but camera picks up yellow from the transparent green and red bands |
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Bottom, signed 'Wheaton Village 2006 Beetem' |
Don Freel, working on the 2006 WV Collab |
Andy & Sara Gregorich |
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Josh Mazet |
There's my spider, the green and pink one that came with the original drawing of it |
Chris & Jackie Rice |
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Ro Purser and Renee |
Ro Purser - 'The Man Who Would Not Be King' |
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Geoffrey Beetem, featured artist |
Geoff and Scott Smith |
Dang flash didn't go off! |
Beetem had a nice setup, lots of nice art |
LOVE this earth bowl |
Dan Grumbling & Wife |
Dan is the Mold Man |
Aaron West |
Dan and Aaron shared a table |
Mike Gong |
Miles Gong |
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Lots of great stuff from Mike |
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The UFO No-Longer-Crash Landing marble |
Wendy Besett |
Painted by Ken Leslie, encase by Harry Bessett |
Gateson Recko & Jillian |
Crappy pic of some AWESOME marbles |
Filip Vogelpohl |
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Drew & Kathy Fritts |
Lots of great new styles from Drew |
Andrew Weill (right) & Timothy Adams |
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Scott Hronich-Pernicka & Natasha Pernicka (he took her name) |
HUGE vortexes |
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Mike & Jamie Mount |
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Josh Sable |
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Harry Kravet |
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Ben Barocas |
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Bradley Tubbs |
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Eddie, Bobbie and Abigail Seese |
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Brad Brandolino (aka Anakin) with one of his two daughters |
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Aimee LePri & Paul Katherman |
Some of Paul's work |
Some of Aimee's |
Scott Meyer and Ron Hinkle (Scott works in Ron's shop, Hinkle Glass) |
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Francis Coupal |
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Aaron Slater |
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Dan Benway (wife Amy was there as welll, missed her) |
Benway/Kobuki crystal collab (Kobuki flower marble) |
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Sabina Boehm |
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Kevin Smolark |
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Kris & Amy Parke |
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Brad Quintana |
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Nathan Miers |
Graal marble tributes to Sable and Recko in the back there |
Ray Laubs Marbles |
Beth Tomasello Marbles |
Beth II |