Plaster Art

Plaster is a very interesting art median there is many aspects to the art. Not as much when I used it but when a professional uses it there is such an amazing look to it, it almost looks like soft and that itself gives the art such an amazing vibe to it. Almost has the feel of looking like they're sculpting vanilla, that was my first impression when I saw a professional's piece. It's easy to color the plaster but a lot of the pieces I see are left the initial white. I wonder why that is? Not all the pieces are smooth like vanilla; some of the pieces are very rough and edgy as if it were to be like the tip of a snow covered jagged mountain. Also plaster makes it really easy for texturing real life things like animals and such, really makes the animal come to life when done correctly.  The whole idea of using plaster for sculpting I personally find really cool when I see all this effort put into I can truly appreciate that. In conclusion I can appreciate plaster art by what the artist produces with it.

Holmes Glass Family

   The Holmes father and son glass duo is two very well known glass artists in the community. The father Mr. Darby Holmes got all his attention by his very unique dichroic flashy designs of cacti he sorta made his symbol. His home state is Arizona so it seemed fitting and his cactus design is not the only thing that gave him his many accolades. He also makes the most impressive fully boro glass guns that are know as the "Peace Guns." Which are so insanely detailed I could look at them for days and still find new aspects to it, truly beautiful pieces of art. Darby Holmes is truly a big part of the boro community history, he even partook in the huge glass movie that was produced couple years ago. With all the fathers skills and beautiful production of his art pieces, you could see how his son would want to follow in his steps. For Caleb Holmes the son he has been in the game since he could walk. Now that he's 18, he has acquired a lot of skills and he's old enough to make some serious moves in the glass game. Every successful glass blower has there own unique designs for their pieces and Caleb's signature design is teddy bears. Which I truly enjoy, it's extremely unique and there's just such a chill vibe to a teddy bear in general. Caleb as an independent artist is well known; he has produced collaboration pieces with the top people in the game. I personally own one of his pieces and I was just talking to him yesterday about his new pieces. He has a crazy collaboration with Hoobs Glass that I'm really trying to purchase off him. Caleb works in a really big studio based out of Oregon, truly beautiful place to live. Recently he was out in Vegas for a show and a competition. He did very well at the big show (it's the biggest glass show at the moment) and then like a week after he competed in a competition called Champs and at this competition you had to make these pieces with a story and a setting. He won the award for People's Choice! Now I technically own award winning glass :) So in conclusion the Holmes glass duo are a very accomplished crew and I cant wait to see what they each produce next, I hope to meet them in person one day.

Jon Casto 3d glass artist

 Dylan Carney
Glass art sculptures

Jon Casto is very well established artist in the borosillicate glass community. Every glass artist that is well known has there own design that no one else has yet created. In Jon Casto case he has such unique distinct sculpted aliens that he makes come to life. Each individual alien is unique to each other, they are never duplicates which is one thing I really love Casto because a lot of artist have one unique design that they just replicate a bunch with different colors but no Casto piece is a duplicate. The true art in his pieces is how he makes these crazy looking aliens and correlates in function to them because they just look like sculptures but have many functions. I've been just talking about his full body aliens but my favorite functional pieces he makes which I'm personally in ownership of one of the biggest pieces and that's his pendants he creates. They just consist of the head of his aliens and from the front you cant even tell they are made to be on necklaces. Another thing that I think is very cool about some of his pieces is that sometimes he adds animal twists to his alien pieces. For example he'll add bunny ears or antlers to one of his alien designs. Sometimes he'll even make a piece that's just mismatched animals like I have a friend on Instagram who owns one of his "panda-puss" pieces and this particular one has a head and body of a panda bear but legs of an octopus, extremely unique doesn't even look like its made of glass with the textures he uses. Which moves me into the next thing I had to say which is that he has a lot of pieces that don't even look like they're made of glass because of the techniques he uses. This includes using a sandblaster so that it gives it a frosty sort of appearance with a grainy feel to it and then he'll actually manipulate the glass to give it a lot more texture which is a true skill. Casto is definitely one of my favorite borosillicate glass sculptures and I'm honoured to be able to have an wear one of his amazing pendants. We also keep in touch and I'm sure I'll own more of his work in the future! Here is some examples of his beautiful pieces of art.
 

2d materials making 3d sculptures

I find it really cool looking at these sculptures and the fact that I was just attempting this with some of the same materials and just what people can come up with. Like the shoes made out of cardboard that's crazy!! I would of never imagined something that clean would be possible with just cardboard. Really makes me appreciate this form of art and the creativity that is put into these pieces. I wasn't so appreciative orginally but now scrolling through all this amazing work it truly is amazing! Love it!!

Jasper Johns blog

Dylan Carney


I appreciate all art because it's the expression of the particular artist vision. For this particular artist Jasper Johns his work is cool but it really doesn't speak to me as an art enthusiast myself. Not much going on just can't understand the vision nothing more nothing less, because I would never actually "hate" on an artist that has his own vision but just personally its not speaking to me that's it.

Assemblage Art

 Robert Rauschenberg BY: Dylan

Robert Rauschenbery was world renowned for his unique work with assemblage art. He also worked with many different forms of art including photography, print making, paper-making and performance. With so much artistic talent no wonder why he got so much attention. He did a lot of his work in NYC.He went to a bunch colleges as well not all art schools he headed towards art later in his school career. For his work he was awarded a couple pretty prestigious awards for his art including, in 1993 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Also, in 1995 he became a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in recognition of his more than 40 years of involvement with art. Robert Rauschenbery is very inspiring artist and his amazing work with Assemblage Art which I truly enjoy observing.