Beautiful piece. Love the simplicity of form and colour. This is a great tutorial which will help me make a piece I have been wanting to do for some time. The clear steps make the process much clearer.
I love the texture of cire perdue glass pieces. René Lalique designed and made wonderfull glass cire perdue pieces (with his chef d'atelier Maurice Bergelin) to make them look as though they were carved from one block of rock crystal. Rock crystal is a mineral or gem also used by Lalique who had been a jeweller prior to glassmaking. Love your craftsmanship and the wonderfull piece you made, very sensual and tactile. Invites to touch.
Absolutely riveted by the process, so much can go wrong. The end result was spectacular, like amber encased in perfect ice sphere half that will never melt.
Holy crap just read some of the negative comments. Guys do your f***ing homework on working with glass. Glass is a true bitch to work with and this is ART. If the artist is happy with the outcome, that's what counts. I my self appreciate something made form almost nothing. Way to go Bruno! Keep up the great work!!
Stunning! A scultura that evokes the sense of the cosmos in movement and depth. Breath-takingly beautiful. These comments below that say the glass is not clear... clear glass is easy to buy industrially. This is sublime.
If I shellac a kiln fired ceramic sculpture can I use this to create an investment mold? If so how do you remove the ceramic piece from the plaster investment without breaking it? Is this challenging?
The finished piece is interesting. Not sure it's worth all that effort. I feel like the casting process could be simplified if the end goal is a half sphere with a hole in the middle.
Actually, the melt was fairly fast. The time-consuming part is the cooling process. With glass that thick, he likely had to cool it down the first couple hundred degrees at no more than 1/2 degree per hour
No. Initially, the furnace temperature was probably raised to around 1,600 deg F to melt the glass but the temperature wasn't held there long enough or was cooled down to below 1,200 F too quickly. That allowed the trapped bubbles to be captured. I do traditional glassblowing. When I add fresh glass to the furnace, I raise the temp to 2,200 F and hold it there for at least 2 hours. Then, I slowly cool the glass down to around 1,900 F and hold that temp for several hours. The glass is still molten and fluid but, with the lower temperature, it's more dense. It's a process often referred to as a squeeze - to help get rid of the air bubbles. If cooled down to a solid state without that kind of pause, you get entrapped bubbles.
If he was going to carve the original model he could have carved the piece of plaster that the glass went into for casting 1. carve plaster 2: put in glass and fire in kiln 3:finish work off.
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Beautiful piece. Love the simplicity of form and colour. This is a great tutorial which will help me make a piece I have been wanting to do for some time. The clear steps make the process much clearer.
I love the texture of cire perdue glass pieces. René Lalique designed and made wonderfull glass cire perdue pieces (with his chef d'atelier Maurice Bergelin) to make them look as though they were carved from one block of rock crystal. Rock crystal is a mineral or gem also used by Lalique who had been a jeweller prior to glassmaking.
Love your craftsmanship and the wonderfull piece you made, very sensual and tactile. Invites to touch.
You Sir, are a true glass GURU!! That piece "TiTaN" is amazingly awesome.
Absolutely riveted by the process, so much can go wrong. The end result was spectacular, like amber encased in perfect ice sphere half that will never melt.
Pearls before swine.Just be incredibly grateful that a master craftsmen allowed you a glimpse of his process.
Omg I am blown away. Gripping... and totally worth the watch
fascinating to watch this process. What a lot of work!
And then......he drops it~! Truly unbelievable.
beautiful - the man and his craft , great little film too .
Holy crap just read some of the negative comments. Guys do your f***ing homework on working with glass. Glass is a true bitch to work with and this is ART. If the artist is happy with the outcome, that's what counts. I my self appreciate something made form almost nothing. Way to go Bruno! Keep up the great work!!
Art is priceless ... for those who know what art means, how many efforts need and what the result should be ... BRAVO
Stunning! A scultura that evokes the sense of the cosmos in movement and depth. Breath-takingly beautiful. These comments below that say the glass is not clear... clear glass is easy to buy industrially. This is sublime.
Really beautiful . What a technique !! Our deepest congratulations for the technique and creativity. From Stylia Glass Studio in Brazil.
Very cool watching this process
I know nothing about glass making here, so forgive me if I ask: why so many cast and mold for just a glass semi-sphere?
I was thinking... So this is why it costs 3000 dollars lol. Seemed like a lot of work for a not so mesmerizing finished product
Great editing on this video! :)
stunning. Perfect. Wow. Thank you.
THANK YOU for this. Beautiful work.
How do you recommend removing the wax form from the plaster investment mold with a DIY set up?
Great condensed view of the glass casting process on a large scale, but...what is it...??
What I'm not understanding is why did it take three weeks to fuse and anneal?!
Pretty clever processes, but I was waiting for a conclusion but it didn't seem to happen?
I like this video- no talking.
The video is better than the piece
Absolutely stunning! thank you.
For any questions questions related to creating glass artwoks please contact the artist Bruno via his website www.brunoromanelli.com/
What is that tool called that he is using to shape the dry plaster with, type of potters wheel with cutting attachments?
If you have any questions regarding which tools Bruno uses please contact him directly via his website
If I shellac a kiln fired ceramic sculpture can I use this to create an investment mold? If so how do you remove the ceramic piece from the plaster investment without breaking it? Is this challenging?
For any questions questions related to creating glass artwoks please contact the artist Bruno via his website www.brunoromanelli.com/
A true Glass Artist
what is the flexible paper product being used to make the plaster mold?
it is a sheet of floor coating
He enjoyed doing it
The finished piece is interesting. Not sure it's worth all that effort. I feel like the casting process could be simplified if the end goal is a half sphere with a hole in the middle.
Just art 🤩
What's the investment? Glass cast?
The 3 weeks in the kiln needs more information. Please
Actually, the melt was fairly fast. The time-consuming part is the cooling process. With glass that thick, he likely had to cool it down the first couple hundred degrees at no more than 1/2 degree per hour
No. Initially, the furnace temperature was probably raised to around 1,600 deg F to melt the glass but the temperature wasn't held there long enough or was cooled down to below 1,200 F too quickly. That allowed the trapped bubbles to be captured. I do traditional glassblowing. When I add fresh glass to the furnace, I raise the temp to 2,200 F and hold it there for at least 2 hours. Then, I slowly cool the glass down to around 1,900 F and hold that temp for several hours. The glass is still molten and fluid but, with the lower temperature, it's more dense. It's a process often referred to as a squeeze - to help get rid of the air bubbles. If cooled down to a solid state without that kind of pause, you get entrapped bubbles.
Maravilloso
3 weeks in the kiln??
this video gave me blue balls
eres genial
Okay but what is it?
Am I missing something? Lmao, this seems like a whole lot of work for a murkey piece of glass.
yes
This is about sensuality, tactility and the purity of shape. It invites to touch.. You should try
"art"
Interesting technique but no wonder it's not popular.
To bad it was to complicated to explain the process, in each step. very professional
Three rights to make a left. And they filmed it.
forget about counting likes and views.. how many times throughout the video did you say "WTF?"
This is some of the silliest and most inefficient glass making I have ever seen. The outcome is definitely not worth the effort.
Another youtube “expert “
ok so im not the only one thinking this, way too many steps for an opaque half sphere
I can understand why it's a lost technique, it's definitely not efficient.
way too strugle for a simple thing!
I agree with most people on here. This thing looks dumb.
I thought it looked amazing. Oh taste
What the heck is it? That’s a lot of work, time and energy for that chunk of glass which is full of bubbles and poorly polished
it took three weeks in a kiln!!!! seriously??
If he was going to carve the original model he could have carved the piece of plaster that the glass went into for casting
1. carve plaster
2: put in glass and fire in kiln
3:finish work off.
WTF is that?