Lecture Description
Watch more Glassblowing for Beginners videos: www.howcast.com/videos/464570-How-to-Blow-Glass-with-Ed-Donovan-Glassblowing
Hi . My name is Ed Donovan. I am here at DC GlassWorks . You can find us at dcglassworks.com . We are a public access glassblowing facility . We also do metal and metal casting and welding . We are primarily a teaching facility. We want to share with people the magic of glassblowing. It's an amazing substance. I came down to Washington quite a while ago. I had got comfortable with my career and was kind of getting bored going home and watching T.V. So I was looking for a place to learn how to deal with stained glass and when I found these guys on the web I came over here to talk to them about it and realized very quickly that I was probably at the wrong place to do that, and talking to the guys who were working here told that me that they taught glass blowing and I was like "Wow! I should take them up on that." I took the class and haven't looked back since. It's been an amazing journey. I absolutely love working with glass and the ability to create just about anything you want with that material, and so today I am going to be talking about the glassblowing.
Course Index
- Introduction to Glassblowing
- What Tools Do You Need?
- How to Find a Class
- How to Find a Job
- How to Pick a Kit
- How to Rent a Studio
- Where Is the Best Glassblowing Museum?
- How Much Do Glassblowing Artists Make?
- Is Glassblowing School Necessary?
- How to Use a Blow Pipe
- 6 Tips, Tricks & Techniques
- How to Shape Glass
- 4 Glory Hole Tips
- How to Use Puffers & Steam Sticks
- How to Use Tweezers to Shape Glass
- How to Use Jacks & Pacioffis
- How to Use Diamond & Straight Shears
- How to Get Started
- History of Glassblowing
- What is Glass Art?
- History of Handblown Glass
- Can Glassblowing Be Done at Home?
- Glassblowing Safety
- How Hot Does the Glass Get?
- How to Pick Supplies
- How to Dress for Class
- How to Marver Glass
- How to Decorate Handblown Glass
- How to Use Newspaper as Heat Protection
- How to Handle Hot Handblown Glass
- How to Handle Fallen Molten Glass
- How to Color Handblown Glass
- How to Use Blocks & Paddles
- How to Blow Glass with Todd Hansen
- How to Blow Glass with Ed Donovan
Course Description
Learn about glassblowing from pros Todd Hansen and Ed Donovan in these Howcast videos.