Filigree Twist Foglio - Black Color:Black With large white baroque pearls

With large white baroque pearls at end

olive and gold

Handmade and finished with stain and porcelain terra sigllata

There is a depth in this painting that might be seen under the ocean surface or atop water

Hand blown bud vase

Filigree Twist Foglio - Black Color:Black With large white baroque pearlsThis blown glass vessel from Patchen's "Foglio" series is created with the cane technique. To make cane, Patchen encases a rod of white glass in molten clear glass then it is stretched 50 60 feet long, reducing its diameter to about the thickness of a pencil. After cooling, the long rod is cut into 6" lengths, reheated and rolled onto a molten glass bubble on a blowpipe. Closing the end creates a striped bubble which Patchen can then twist and