Nature Inspired Soap Dish

This soap dish could very well be the exact opposite of the one below with the dichroic glass! This is a light and subtle nature inspired piece. The focal point is the leaf, constructed from green frits. it is surrounded by purple hues on iridized glass. This soap dish would look great in any bathroom or kitchen because it can pretty much go with any color or scheme.

Happy New Year 2008/2009!

I would like to say Happy New Year! We are counting down the hours now here in PA until 2009. I am sure it will be another great year and I am looking forward to so much-too many things to even list. I will be completing much more work in the new year, including sculptures and new designs across the board. I am entering some art shows starting in February so will be working hard through January to prepare. I will keep the photos and postings rolling.

Thanks for checking in and looking at what I have to offer. I appreciate any feedback you have and if you are interested in purchasing anything, please e-mail me at adriaoglass@ovdiyenko.com. I will be happy to discuss pricing and shipping, and answer any questions you might have.

Happy New Year!!

Are You Going To Let An Ugly Bar of Soap Cover This Up?

Just imagine the surprise when an unsuspecting guest lifts the soap off of this soap dish! This is dichroic glass at its best, a real show stopper. Warning: it may turn you into an obsessive compulsive hand washer. But who could blame you for wanting to ogle this baby as often as possible?

Super Thin and Modern Dark Blue Swirled Dish

This dish is around 4 x 4 in measurement and is just light as a feather, so dainty. It really captures the spirit of the fragility and function of glass and minimalist design. The bottom is coated in silver mica for a metallic luster. The top design is dark blue and clear swirled glass. Simple and elegant.

Medium Votive Holder in Purples and Blues

Way back when in September I posted a violet votive holder, which is a relative and predecessor to this votive holder. This one is bigger, medium sized, and textured with frits instead of smooth. It is more on the blue side too, as opposed to being mostly purple like its counterpart. The violet votive from the past may have been the inspiration, but this piece is all its own.

Votive Holder-Red With Gold Mica

These pictures speak for themselves! This votive holder is designed with red and orange glass on the inside and is coated with gold-bronze mica on the outside to give that crackled metallic look you see. It really does shine and sparkle beautifully!

SOLD-Bright Reds, Oranges, and Yellows

This bowl is so simple, and yet so eye catching, colorful and interesting! It stands out with bold color on the top, where I used cherry red, red opal, orange opal, tangerine, light orange and marigold frits. The bottom shines in gold-bronze-ish mica. The shape is just barely slumped. Very unique!

3 Saucy Sushi Dishes

Here are three petite sushi condiment dishes for the roll fanatic. Perfect for any dipping sauce (like my favorite-Wasabi) or even small little nibbles (like Wasabi covered peas, another favorite of mine) to go with your meal. I suppose if you were feeling imaginative in your cooking, or if you don't like sushi, these could be used to beautifully display other condiments like olives, tapenade, oil and herb dipping sauces for bread, horseradish sauce, mustards...as you can tell I like to cook, AND the list is endless.

I am currently working on some sets to go with these three little dishes. I will make sets of four in each design and sell them in sets rather than individually. For now I just wanted to show them off. I hope you like them! Look for sets in future postings!

Large Dark Blue Swirl Bowl-Matte

Don't let the picture fool you-this baby is pretty big! It measures 7 x 7 inches. What is so interesting about this bowl is the matte finish on the inside, which is bordered by a thin strip of shiny glass right around the edges. Truly amazing. The outside is Amazon Green glass, which is bolder than the pastel green in some of the other dark blue swirled pieces you have seen on my blog. Still nature inspired, but more midsummer as opposed to early spring!

Again, you can see the raindrop pattern I added to the design to give it that watery feeling. This bowl has it all-texture, color, and style.

SOLD-Dark Blue Swirled Bowl and Tile Set

These pieces were sold as a set recently. The small bowl rests on the tile to make a lovely nature inspired display of glass. The bottom side of both pieces is a light pastel green that just peeks through the swirled dark blue glass above. As detail, I added some "raindrops" to the pattern. These pieces are serene, like water and rain and wet leaves.

Sky Blue Prototype Small Bowl

This is another prototype bowl that is a winner for our sculpture. This bowl is made with sky blue frit instead of the deep aqua and is no less beautiful for it. We will be using different blues for the sculpture, hence the differences in the prototypes. This piece is also made with copper leaf and frits, and has a silver mica back. It is slightly smaller than the other prototype, but was slumped over the same mold so holds the same shape.

SOLD-Prototype Small Bowl

I call this a prototype bowl because it was designed for a sculpture that Chris and I are working on. Our new sculpture is inspired by water, and will combine steel and glass in a cascading pattern. We still haven't decided if it will be free standing or if it will be a wall mount sculpture. But I digress. I made several 4 x 4 glass prototypes of the "water" we will be using for the sculpture and here is one of the winners. For the sculpture I will not be using 4 x 4 pieces most likely so I slumped this prototype into a small 4 x 4 bowl.

The back of this bowl is silver mica. The inner layers are made of copper leaf, deep aqua and blue orchid iridized frit, and it was fired at a lower temperature than I would normally use for a full fuse to capture a bit of copper oxidization. Overall the effect is amazing. From the sides of this bowl you can see layers of copper and frit, magnified by the clear glass I used.

The best part about this bowl is that it is an inspiration for a much larger sculpture. It is part of the art process that just happened to look so awesome on its own. You will see this design again!

Sorry all prospective buyers, this bowl is sold. Fortunately the sky blue version is still available. Please see my next post.

Swirled and Textured Plate

This plate was so fun to make! It started with a wire melt, which is the oblong swirled piece of glass you see in the middle. I fused the wire melt onto dark purple glass and added frits all along the outside. I used Red Opal, Orange Opal, and Marigold Opal frits all in coarse to mosaic sizes. I fired it at a low temperature (this is relative) so it was more than a tack fuse, but less than a full fuse (the low 1400s). By firing at a lower temperature, I maintained the textures of the wire melt and also the frits. And the texture of this piece is so much the charm! I slumped it into a sushi style plate.