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Torchworker Robert Kincheloe has a tutorial on his boro casting technique featured in the latest issue of The Flow glass journal.
In the magazine, he demonstrates how to re-create an object in borosilicate glass using his lost wax casting techniques, and incorporating the cast boro into flamework sculpture.
Rob’s tutorial is also available online thru the magazine’s website – Click HERE to jump to The Flow’s class website.
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A casting kiln loaded with boro.
Robert Kincheloe has been developing a method of casting using borosilicate glass (aka “hard” glass or 33 C.O.E or Pyrex) and creating components that can later be assembled into Flameworked sculpture.
Rob Kincheloe prepping the glass to be invested into the molds.
Here Rob had made plaster/silica molds via the “lost wax casting” process, and is now loading into the kiln, investing with boro glass.
His process of merging warm and hot glass practices creates one of a kind sculptural works of art.
“Crashing” the kiln to take the glass out of devit range.
The red-hot glass at 2100º F
Some of the cast boro elements – showing the translucent colors. These elements will later be flameworked into sculpture.
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Our Elizabeth Ryland Mears and Robert Kincheloe are off setting up a residency at the famed west coast glass school Pilchuck.
Washington Glass School’s Elizabeth Mears has organized this years program for the residency and has given us a look at the schedule:
Pilchuck’s beautiful wooded campus – about 50 miles north of Seattle overlooking Puget Sound.
>Robert Kincheloe has been having a great time at the ISGB Conference. He has been working with some lampworking superstars like Michael Mangiafico.
Michael “Fig” Mangiacio performs a torchwork demo for the conference.
Robert has also been working on a collaborative piece with Milon Townsend.
Milon Townsend
Milon Townsend uses modern technological innovations, traditional Italian techniques such as murrine and filigrana, and flamework methods that he himself has developed to create the sculptures that appear in his mind. He has taught at RIT’s School of the American Craftsman, at Urban Glass in NYC, been a visiting artist at RISD and is a regular teacher at The Studio at the Corning Museum. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, American Glass Museum, and the National Liberty Museum.
The collaborative piece involves integrating Robert Kincheloe’s cast borosilicate glass figures with Milon’s lampworked glass. Below is one of the larger sculptures:
Cast and flameworked borosilicate glass.
Robert Kincheloe & Milon Townsend
Robert at Niagra Falls. Slowly he turns…