 More new cast glass: a beautiful aqua glass with a nude figure on top. She looked mermaidish to me, so I gave the box a wavy, watery design. As you can see at the bottom of the lid, these need some finish work, but they turned out lovely. | 
And here's a box in wax: roses and leaves all the way around the box. It took forever to make and attach all those little wax roses and leaves. This will be covered in plaster, then the wax will be steamed out so that there will be a negative mold of the whole wax piece in plaster. Then I'll fill it with glass and fire it. If even one of the petals doesn't fill with glass, or breaks in firing, the piece will be ruined. Glass is a harsh and unforgiving mistress. I'm still trying to decide what will go on the top. More roses would be overkill. |
To the left, a new glass-topped box made of wenge with bloodwood detail. The ravens were etched into the glass and then stained black. The base is leafed with 22K gold and copper in a sunset pattern, then epoxied to get a reflective effect from the ravens on top. Below, a new tall leggy box made of a gorgeous live-edged mesquite with sapele legs and a stone frog on top. And we're making another frog box- in glass- because we love frogs so much. Finally, below, a new Little Red Riding Hood Box, with Little Red in the winter woods woodburned and painted on top, and a wolf inside (both top and base are maple). The sides are padauk.
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