This week we are featuring submitted sandcarving glass work by Karl Stuebner. The photos of his 3 submissions below are awesome!
Wahoo Fish Sandcarved in Glass
The first one Karl shared with us is a perfect sandcarving of the prize winning wahoo fish. It depicts an underwater scene near a variety of 4 other perfectly etched fish using the multi-stage sandcarving process.
LEDs help light up and show the details. The fine carved detail of the teeth and even the water bubbles is remarkable.
Portrait of Girl Sandcarve Etched in Glass
So far we have discussed and showed examples of photos etched into glass through the halftone photoresist process, shadeblasting process, line art process, and even the stencil art process. The art of sandcarving a portrait is another route we haven’t discussed much.
In the below, Karl used the multi-stage sandcarving technique to carve a portrait of a person in the glass. This would involve cutting a stencil piece by piece similar to the shadeblasting process, except Karl carves it deep to show the contrasting features.
You can click on the above image to zoom up on the detail. He does an awesome job with the stencil cuts and the multi-depth carving is very smooth.
Whale Etched Led Glass
The third is an example of a LED glass stand with a multi-stage sandcarving of a whale. It looks like he used some shadeblasting techniques in this also.
Thank you for sharing these, Karl! It provides inspiration to us all. Everyone else, please leave him some comments or questions below.
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Fantastic work MERAVILIA!
Well done .
John
There is no more to say then ……..
“Simply Beautiful”
Are you using special equipment? Not regular sandblasting, but that micro stuff? Beautiful!
Arte perfeita nota 10
Karl is one of the best I’ve seen. Always does outstanding work. Love the wahoo piece!!
Beautiful!
Thanks for the kind words everybody! I am not using micro blasting…not even sure what that is. I have a pressure pot with foot pedal control system and I switch between 1/16″ and 1/8″ nozzle depending on the detail. I usually control the pressure between 15 psi – 40 psi for carving. I use 150 silicone carbide for most of mt carvings. I’m able to cut out precise and minute detail with a vinyl cutter after I draw my image in Corel draw. Sometimes I’ll have to remask the blasted area again and reblast or redefine crisp lines that become “washed out” from mutliple depth blasting. Clone masking or repeat masking is easy using a vinyl cutter. It’s all hard to explain on paper…sorry.
Karl,
Wonderful work. Thank you for engaging on this forum and being available to those of us learning this art. Your portrait of a woman, above, inspired me a few years ago to become a sandcarving artist. Thank you.
Do you do work for others?. Would love to have a portrait done I sandblasting for a friend’s milestone. It’ll make a great gift.