interesting techniques and concepts

Pieces I made out of glass:

Chocolate Coffee Beans made out of glass.

How Bizarre - A decorated glass bone.

Exotic Duckies - Duck-head shaped glass beads.

Glass Mushroom Farmer - Featuring mushrooms I made out of glass.

Breakfast In Texas - Featuring a glass egg that I made.

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Concept: Photographing fluorescent minerals. It isn't easy. This picture was difficult to take because of the darkness in the tent, the many black lights, and the glowing rocks. I was lucky to get this decent image considering all of the difficult elements.





Concept: Photographing all that glitters and sparkles. When something is glittery and sparkly it's really hard for me to get a good photo of it. This closeup view shows you an exquisite sparkling pile of Herkimer Diamonds. It's such a unique thing to see and one which overwhelmed my camera's light settings. Luckily I was able to compensate.





Here's a neat concept. These are real leaves which have been electroplated. What's neat is that the metal has adhered itself to just the skeletal veins of each leaf. So when you hold up one of these leaves to the light, you can see light through it. These metal leaves feel light and airy just as if they weren't coated in metal, but they'll last forever - unlike real leaves.





Using fossils for jewelry is a neat concept. This image is of a pile of ammonites that were for sale at the show. Ammonites are the coiled, flat, chambered fossil shells of an extinct cephalopod mollusk that was abundant in the Cretaceous Period. These ones have been polished to bring out their colors and to make them shiny. Many people use them for wire wrapping.





Another interesting concept: Using nuts as jewelry. The Tagua nut is an extremely hard nut that comes from the Ivory nut palm. Its endosperm can be carved and polished like ivory, making it a botanical alternative to elephant ivory and giving rise to the name "vegetable ivory." These ones have been polished and dyed pretty colors.

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Not really original as it is a fractal, but it just turned out so cool I have to share it. Of course, I guess my idea of cool isn't always someone else's version of cool.



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a color clay rendering technique which I find quite interesting, I quite like how this lighting turned out


not really that interesting, but it is my only pic with only one color... so I find it cool that I managed it

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i had been sketching the bottom part of my face for a few days and i hadn't done oil in FOREVER so i wanted to experiment in skin tone and expressions.
an experiment in textures i kind of just let things go onto the wood.

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wow!
love the detail for the size...
thanks for sharing!

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wow!
the thinking behind all these pieces is very exciting!
nice to see that people still experiment like this, especially the leaves! love it! thanks so much for sharing

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nice images, thanks for adding them into this collection!

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thanks

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very nice
love the playfulness in your experiment too!

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