Rainy Saturday at the Glass School

Its a dreary downtown day; the sky's a charcoal gray, but here at the Washington Glass School, we don't need the sun to shine! Below is a quick photo tour around the place on this wet spring Saturday :
Lino-cut Printmaking with Cast Glass panels class powers on:

Instructor Kirk Waldroff checks on a student as he grinds & coldworks his cast glass panel.

Carving into the lino blocks

Inking the glass panels

Pulling a Print - Nancy Donnelly takes us through the process.

The glass block and the print side by side.

While in the Flameworking studio, test glass color samples being made:

Rob Kincheloe works color combos for a fused glass camouflage pattern background. Here Rob talks of the color options with Kirk Waldroff.

A modern PETA-friendly animal mounting.

In the back studio - artists working on artwork / sculpture components:

Matt Duffy works on his steel and glass sculpture components.

Michael Janis works on a sgraffitto panel to be shown at Glass Weekend in New Jersey.