by christine ortbals

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Box of Crayons

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I loved the first day of school and the best part was being given a fresh box of Crayola Crayons, all those bright colors, fresh smell of wax, pointy tips, what beautiful artwork I would make with my new "Box of Crayons"! This is one of many reasons I loved school and because of that excited feeling I chose to create my own "Box of Crayons". Notice the rows of colors just like a "Box of Crayons" I chose the colors of glass carefully to reflect the cohesiveness of the array of color, cutting the glass just so to revel the layers of colors. Once colors of glass are chosen the glass is cut and ground to fit the base glass. Fired in a glass kiln at over 1400 degrees to just bond the layers without fulling melting the glass then allowed to cool to under 100 degrees into a once again solid sheet of glass. The once simple glass is on it's final journey of hand sanding and polishing like a fine piece of wood using multiple grades of diamond embedded foam pads to smooth the edges till it looks like...well, glass! The stainless steel display stand is designed created, powder coated in a satin black paint and formed at my direction to show the piece as one unit.

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