To provide everyone with more inspiration, this week we are featuring two other shadeblasting etchings that Dave Schulte did on glass mirrors below. Shadeblasting Leopard on Mirror The first shadeblasting he shared with us is what I believe to be of a leopard. You can see the level of detail in both the stencil cuts
A while back, I was talking about how I cut small but thick pieces of glass. This is the project I was working on for that and I forgot to share it. I hope it gives you some ideas. The idea I want to share here is my favorite item to sandcarve with 2 or
This post features Dennis Turner and his etchings done on the backside of mirrors and placed inside a self-made framed lightbox. This is a cool post because it uses the idea of what many of us are interested in: lighting up your glass etching and making a frame for it. But he included another idea
I have always thought etching or engraving plain glass and framing it is some of the best things to work with and we featured a lot of them. So we wanted to feature Shelbie Mclemore’s awesome engravings done with a dremel rotary tool. Then she shared one of a elephant with a unique design that
I am happy to share another featured etching this month which was submitted by Albert Myrstol ! After some of our posts about painting etched glass, he shared his method which used Martha Stewart’s craft paints. I am not sure if he used their regular craft paint, but I did find that the company offers
Omar Alvarez shared his multi-etched tempered glass which is lit up with an homemade LED frame through the submission form. As you may know, I enjoy lighting up sandblasted glass, especially items that are carved deep. This submission brings up another topic too, because it was sandcarved into tempered glass which is known to break
Hello all, a gal by the name Patti recently sent me the below video and asked me to share it to see if there is anyone that knows any information about these two large flamingo sandcarved glass art pieces framed within a wood stand/shelf. She stated the below about this piece: Mid-century etched art Both
If you are recall several years ago, Dave Schulte shared his amazing shadeblast glass etching art with details on how the process is done here. And another post of his project of a tiger etched in a mirror was shown here. Like many of you, I am a big fan of his work. He was
Uwe Schwenk was nice enough to write up a great tutorial on how to rotary engrave glass for all of us. Thank you, Uwe! Uwe shared the below project on how it was engraved using a native American warrior pattern on regular glass and colored it. This particular project is part of a series of
This week we are featuring Matthew Harris and his unique rotary engravings that I thought were unique. He recently picked up glass etching as a hobby. The first one appears to be a western scene of an oil rig and another more detailed oil rig plant below. He stated: I make all sorts of stuff.
It’s exciting to share these sandcarving glass projects today and feature Kay O’Neil! You might like this if you would like to expand your glass etching into other forms such as stained glass. Or even use this idea to create unique etched glass projects by using spectrum baroque glass, as she has done. As you
