working with glass

I really enjoyed working with glass for the first time, it was actually one of my favorite things we have done in an art class so far. I wish that OU would end up having a class all about glass in the following semesters because I feel like we should not be done working at Hocking plus it is so interesting. One of the major drawbacks I found when working with glass was the delicateness of the glass. Everyone knows that glass is fragile but when you are trying to manipulate it into something you really get to see how delicate it is. Another drawback was no matter how much thought and time you put into it we were never going to get it to look exactly how we picture. There may be other artists who would be able to but with our little experience and time that was not possible for us. The main advantage I found with working with the glass was the uniqueness of our art. I am using a lot of my pieces for my senior thesis project and my professors are impressed because it is not something they have seen before. It also helps that we are the first class at Ohio University to be able to use the glass lab at Hocking.