Glass blowing basics tutorial 2 - What is a color overlay

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This is the 2nd tutorial video in a series of basic glass blowing and glass studio processes. These short videos cover some of the basic questions that we get from people about how we make our hand blown glass.

In this video, Bernard Katz narrates as Steve Stens and Chris Wheeler demonstrate how a color overlay is done in glass blowing. The color overlay is one of a few main ways that color is added to clear glass to get colored glass. Tutorial 1 showed what the bar color is that is used in this video. With this method, the color is just a thin layer sandwiched between the layers of clear glass. This gives the illusion that the entire glass vase or glass sculpture is made of that color. You can sometimes see by looking at the lip of a studio art glass vessel the different layers. The color we use is very concentrated, so generally only a small amount is needed to achieve the desired look in the finished piece.

In other videos from this series, we will show various ways that we use color for our art glass sculpture. We hope that these and upcoming "how to videos" will help with some of the basic questions people asked about when visiting our studio or website.

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[TheLaurentiu1972]

very beautiful!

[bernardkatzglass]

@TheLaurentiu1972 Thank you very much for the compliment! I hope to put together more videos soon.

[foamysminion392]

really interesting tutorial, but I promise the sound effects are unnecessary

[ploddi76]

Oh my god!