blog 8

This year in Iquest has been very successful for me. I went to Revere every week on mondays for about three and a half hours and learned many glass blowing techniques.  The fist few things I learned was how to be safe around hot glass and a burning torch. Then I learned how to make marbles, blanks, and things called murrias. Though out the whole process I was assisted by my mentor, learning the technical procedures along the way. Some other techniques I learned was how to rap and rake, frit, fume, dot stack, cross hatch, honeycomb and the implosion. An implosion is a simple technique that I used to make a pendant for my mom for a christmas present. Ive learned a lot so far and plan to continue and improve my skills. I believed Ive achieved my 1st semester goals and with the help of my mentors and Mrs. Sekera I hope to achieve many more next semester.