Checking in with a boro sclpture in the middle of the process…

In my last post here, you saw one of my soft glass chakra Goddess sculptures. Now, I am showing you one from the same series made with borosilicate glass.

Borosilicate white glass is a great canvas for my Enamel decals. This 4-1/2″ tall sculpture was a three hour process. (After the decals were made.)  This was  inspired by my desire to want to understand more about these internal human energies, and the images I found through Google.

I am experimenting with wrapping the decals around three dimensional forms.  Trying to figure out what my limits are. I am realizing with every project, I can figure out how to overcome my limits.  Each project has some epiphanies, and some new challenges. The end result could be UN-imaginable at this time.

As an Artist I am discouraged by the amount of time it is taking to figure out what I am doing. This project is still in the sketch book phase.

The chakra symbols are not memorized by me in any way. I looked at one image, and then I went off and created my own, with the chakra rainbow, and radial floral designs that I created from memory, and imagination.  Most of these images were created in the computer.  Only a few photographs of lilies were used at the bottom of the white simple figure form.

I imagine many of my glass sculptures having implosions (explosions) of color within the base. I think I can do a lot more with this idea.  I would like to incorporate the implosion base into the figure more. Kind of like a metamorphosis.

The chakra series has inspired this next design.

This is a combination of a photograph and a image created in the computer. The organic petal shapes are from a photograph of one of my favorite petal murrini. The symmetrical petals were created in the computer. This is a great image for a bead, or a sculpture.  I just recently printed the decals. I have only run a few tests. So far, WOW!!! I really like this image.

So, as you can tell, I have a lot going on; Sculpture, decal design, and two shows coming up next month.

Can’t wait to see what happens next.

Sheila Morley has a blog at wordpress.  She is an Autocad Engineer, and an Artist who works in her home studio in Michigan.