Gallery: Glass Blowing

Telescope Staff

September 25, 2015

Michael Hernandez instructs a demonstration for his Glass-Blowing 3 students in the campus studio on Tuesday Sept. 15, 2015. The purpose of this demo was to show students how to create cane for use in decorating their work. Cane is a cross section of glass made by pulling and stretching molten glass from both ends. (Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope)

Michael Hernandez instructs a demonstration for his Glass-Blowing 3 students in the campus studio on Tuesday Sept. 15, 2015. The purpose of this demo was to show students how to create cane for use in decorating their work. Cane is a cross section of glass made by pulling and stretching molten glass from both ends. (Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope)

Michael Hernandez demonstratewhat's needed to polishing a paper weight for his Glass-Blowing 1 students in the Palomar campus studio on Tuesday Sept. 15. Different weight grits are used in polishing the bottom of hand blown work in order to smooth out sharp surfaces. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Michael Hernandez demonstrates polishing a paper weight for his Glass-Blowing 1 students in the campus studio on Tuesday Sept. 15. Different weight grits are used in polishing the bottom of hand blown glass in order to smooth out sharp surfaces. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Michael Hernandez demonstrates polishing a paper weight for his Glass-Blowing 1, while Palomar students, Djay Scott (left) and Eric Garcia (center) observe during the T-Th, 8 a.m. class on Tuesday Sept. 15. Different weight grits are used in polishing the bottom of hand blown glass in order to smooth out sharp surfaces. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Clauduia Castillo (left), a Glass Blowing 3 student, works on an assignment during the T-Th, 8 a.m. class at Palomar on Tuesday Sept. 15. Castillo picks up color for decoration at the end of a blowpipe which is then worked onto a steal plate called a marver, while Charlie Norris (right) assists and observes. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Logan Groupe’ (left) assists Mark Lessard (right) during the shaping of a hand blown piece for the T-Th, 8 a.m. class at Palomar on Tuesday Sept. 15. Groupe’ uses a caliper to aid Lessard in sculpting his work. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Yesenia Gonzalez (left center) and Clauduia Castillo (right center) assist Michael Hernandez, professor (center), during a demonstration for Glass Blowing 3 for the T-Th 8 a.m. class at Palomar on Tuesday Sept. 15. Gonzalez and Castillo use water soaked paddles to help prevent burns to the arm and hand of Hernandez during shaping of the hand blown piece. While students Alexis Valdillez (far left), Carey Pickford (far right) and Logan Groupe’ (front left) watch closely. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Palomar professor, Michael Hernandez (far right) demonstrates plate decoration for his Glass-Blowing 3 students in class on Tuesday Sept. 15. While Hernandez uses a water soaked paddle to flatten out a hand blown plate, students Clauduia Castillo (center left), Alexis Valdillez (far left), Mark Lessard (lower middle left) and Caleb Hill (lower left) observe the technique closely. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

Clauduia Castillo (left) and Yesenia Gonzalez (right) assist Michael Hernandez, professor (center), during a demonstration for Glass Blowing 3 for the T-Th 8 a.m. class at Palomar on Tuesday Sept. 15. Castillo uses a water soaked paddle to help prevent burns to Hernandez’s arm while Gonzalez blows through the steal blowpipe to create shape for the hand blown piece. Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

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Palomar Art Professor Michael Hernandez demonstrates glass blowing processes to his Glass blowing classes on Sept. 15.

Photography by Brandy Sebastian/The Telescope

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