I’ve just created a new style of flower sconce – or wall-hanging flower vase. 
Unlike my original – and still popular – folded flower sconces, this one is all curved lines, and was inspired by the drawings I did leading up to my wallpieces RCB 11.01, RCB 11.02, and especially RCB 11.04
Today we're shipping a lovely set of round vases off to Gallery Morada in the Florida Keys. They have sold our vases for years, and are just now starting to show our wallpieces. The wallpieces they're showing are listed on our site here (only one so far, but another will be on its way soon).
I just made a full set of lens vases in the color we call antique blue. Antique blue contains ultramarine pigment – the only pigment we use in any of our patinas – in a copper nitrate base. Ultramarine pigment was once derived from grinding up lapis lazuli, and the look of the patina – especially in this set of vases – reflects that origin. This set of vases is on its way to Mowen Solinsky Gallery.
Here David’s working on a burnt mottle patina on one of two custom pieces. The piece has been buried in sawdust with a recipe of ammonia, water, salt and ammonium chloride for a few days until it is colored all over with blue-greens and browns. Sometimes we leave the piece in that state, after drying and cleaning it, but sometimes we want less green and more browns and golds so we burn the surface with a big torch.
Here are two small lens vases I made in brown heat-treated copper for a special order (I made two to provide a choice of colors).
There can be little more gratifying than to have the Lens Vases I designed for ikebana flower arrangement requested by an interior designer in Japan. This set is on its way now to Interculture Art in Tokyo. We have worked with Interculture Art in the past, and they have placed several of our wallpieces and many vases. David originally designed the Part Scrap Round Vase, a variant on our classic Round Vases based on a request from Interculture Art in 1999.
This is the kind of vase order we like – variety in size, style, and
color, all well chosen to go well together. This set was carefully
thought out by Brian Farrell, but we enjoy making such selections up as well, and always
welcome orders that just ask for a good, coordinated set of colors.
With few exceptions, we tend to patina our vases one solid color. Earlier this year, one of our gallery owners, Brian Farrell of Milward Farrell Fine Art was looking at our modular wallpieces and requested one of our slab vases with the square-in-square pattern usually used only on the modular wallpiece panels. We instantly agreed this would be a good idea, and this is the result. We will offer these in future in different patterns of patina colors within the square-in-square style.
