{"id":698,"date":"2013-05-07T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glassartguild.com\/wordpress\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-02-14T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:21:07","slug":"neon-workshop-guest-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Neon Workshop &#8211; Guest Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0pt; font-family: 'Arial'; padding: 0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/neon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-697\" title=\"Neon Lizard\" alt=\"Neon Lizard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/neon1-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0pt; font-family: 'Arial'; padding: 0pt;\"><span>Neon With Matt Jackson<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0pt; font-family: 'Arial'; padding: 0pt;\"><span>Who doesn\u2019t like the bright colors and attraction of neon, and of course there is fire and glass too! \u00a0<a title=\"Matt Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glassartguild.com\/wordpress\/members\/member-artists\/matt-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Jackson<\/a> is a third generation neon artist who generously offered an opportunity to learn what it takes to produce a simple neon work of art of your own. \u00a0He begins by covers the tools and techniques used in making neon. \u00a0We practiced making angle, double back, and drop bend using a blow hose and a cork and either a ribbon burner or cross fire torch. \u00a0Matt is very patient and encourages you to jump in and start working. \u00a0At first I thought I would be pleased if I bent a tube without collapsing it, but with his help and a few blowouts later, I managed to make a very good letter D. \u00a0You get a real good understanding of why layout and execution is important when working with neon glass. \u00a0And if that wasn\u2019t amazing after we created our simple neon projects to incorporate with a fused glass project, with Matt\u2019s help he attached the electrodes and we lit them up, and that was just plain cool! \u00a0He demonstrated how to burn out any impurities inside the neon tube and then adds the appropriate gas neon or argon depending on the color desired. \u00a0I would recommend his intro class to anyone who has ever wanted to try making neon, it is an opportunity not to be missed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0pt; font-family: 'Arial'; padding: 0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/neon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-696\" title=\"Neon \" alt=\"Neon Samples\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/neon2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/neon4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-694\" title=\"Neon Project\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/neon4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mattjneon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-695\" title=\"Matt Jackson demonstrating\" alt=\"Matt Jackson - neon artist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mattjneon-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/awayne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-132\" title=\"Wayne Frewin\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/awayne-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Wayne Frewin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glassartguild.com\/wordpress\/members\/member-artists\/wayne-frewin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Frewin<\/a> creates detailed and unique fused glass pieces in his Salt Lake studio with help from his adorable studio pups.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neon With Matt Jackson Who doesn\u2019t like the bright colors and attraction of neon, and of course there is fire and glass too! \u00a0Matt Jackson is a third generation neon artist who generously offered an opportunity to learn what it takes to produce a simple neon work of art of your own. \u00a0He begins by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes-for-members","category-guest-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glassartguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}