Videos by Milon Townsend

I know many, many good glass artists. I also know a number of very good artists. In my opinion, there are only a few truely outstanding glass artists, and Milon Townsend is one of them.

Milon also understands the 'business' of art, and can explain it in a clear and concise way. He has writing a number of books, and speaks publically, on glass, marketing, design, and excellence. He is a teacher, contributes regularly to a number of magazines, and continues to involve himself in the development of flameworking as a serious artform.

ARTCO is proud to carry Milon's series of entertaining, instructional, and often inspirational, videos.

Solid Sculpture in Borosilicate Glass - A DVD by Milon Townsend

Solid Sculpture in Borosilicate Glass
Tools, Techniques, Theory & Application

Want to sculpt hot glass? Learn the simple secrets to get borosilicate glass to do exactly what you want it to.

Milon Townsend will show you the tools and techniques to create anything you can imagine. This two-DVD set transcends how-to by clearly demonstrating the essential skills you need, showing you how to alter tools to better fit your needs, and the importance of making a plan to accomplish your sculptural goals. You'll end up with a philosophical approach that will serve you forever in sucessfully sculpted figurative objects in the torch.

Solid Sculpture in Borosilicate Glass
Item #	Description	Price
	Solid Sculpture in Borosilicate Glass	$75.00

Introduction to Lost Wax Kiln Casting - a DVD by Milon Townsend

Introduction to Lost Wax Kiln Casting
Multiple Methods for Casting Glass Sculptures

Kiln casting can be very simple and straightforward. If you can cook, you can cast.

This DVD will open the doorway for you to sucessfully cast small and medium scale glass sculptures, using the lost wax process. You'll learn how to:

make a silicone rubber mold
pour and work with wax
invest your wax
steam the wax to make your investment mold
figure the volume of glass you need to fill the mold
set up your glass in the kiln
divest and clean your finished sculpture!

Milon Townsend will show you how to do each of these steps many different ways, so you can choose which approach works best for you.

Introduction to Lost Wax Casting
Item #	Description	Price
	Introduction to Lost Wax Casting	$75.00

Focus on Flamework
An Introduction to Using Borocolour®

This video explains the natures of the different color families, including the stable colors; striking colors; oxidation/reduction colors; amber/purple colors; and the cadmium colors, of Northstar's Borocolour® colored borosilicate glass. It combines demonstrations with interviews of Townsend, showing and telling the important foundational concepts for the artist who wants to have control of the final results.

Also included is a 16 page, full-color booklet of the same subject matter, so the artist can have a reference handy while at the torch.

An Introduction to Using Borocolour®
Item #	Description	Price
DVD-1	An Introduction to Using Borocolour®	$25.00

Focus on Flamework
Flameworking with Dichroic Glass

This video looks at some of the many ways to incorporate dichroic coated glass in flameworked pieces. It demonstrates how changing the axis of reflection changes the appearance of the dichroic color; how to properly embed dichroic color into hot glass without burning it out; how to etch patterns in the dichroic coating, and flame polish them afterward; how to create a hollow form with an internal dichroic coating; how to apply dichroic coated glass to the outside of a figurative object (a fish); and how to wrap a large figure with a patterned sheet of dichroic glass.

Also included is a 16 page, full-color booklet of the same subject matter, so the artist can have a reference handy while at the torch.

Flameworking with Dichroic Glass
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DVD-4	Flameworking with Dichroic Glass	$25.00

Focus on Flamework
Using Northstar® Frit and Powder

This video explains some of the health and safety issues important to the artist using frit and powder; how to make and sort your frit; making cane with different frit and powder effects; how to create a solid sphere with different layers of colored frit; and several sculptural applications for frit and powder pickups.

Interspersed with interviews with the artist, a new feature of this video is the images of finished pieces, illustrating some of the ways that the artist can incorporate these techniques into his or her artwork.

Also included is a 16 page, full-color booklet of the same subject matter, so the artist can have a reference handy while at the torch.

Using Northstar® Frit and Powder
Item #	Description	Price
DVD-5	Using Northstar® Frit and Powder	$25.00

Focus on Flamework
Surface Decoration

This video demonstrates the ways to use different canes in a piece, as a goblet stem, paperweight figure, or a freestanding insect.

Townsend explains the difference between 'filigrana' and 'latticino', and how the term 'milli's' came to be used instead of 'murrine'. He shows examples of the work of masters in the field, and makes the concept of canework accessible to anyone working in glass, clearly demonstrating technique and method of doing so.

You will learn how to make: cane with simple external pattern; cane with internal twist; alternate colors in a pattern on the outside; simple star murrine cane; realistic eye cane for an amphibian; and how to bundle sections of cane together and draw that down into a complex cane.

Also included is a 16 page, full-color booklet of the same subject matter, so the artist can have a reference handy while at the torch.

Surface Decoration
Item #	Description	Price
DVD-6	Surface Decoration	$25.00

'What is Man'
Aspects of Scale in Flameworked Sculpture

This video clearly shows many of the methods that glass artist Milon Townsend had developed to make the creation of large solid flameworked sculptures possible.

These include: bridges to keep extremities from moving; pre-heated glass pontils to facilitate the handling of the piece; soaking at a given temperature to allow continuous working of the piece; and use of any burner as a hand torch to melt and move glass on an object from one plane or one shape, to another.

"It is my hope that this video will help flameworkers think on a different scale, to be willing to try a larger piece than they might have thought possible."

What is Man
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	What is Man	$39.95

Flameworking with Teamwork, Technology & Scale

For many years, Milon Townsend has been making his flameworked sculptures with a team, incorporating new technologies, and on a larger scale than usually found in the flameworking studio. This video has grown out of the preparation for his presentation at the Glass Art Society conference in June of 2001, in Corning, NY.

'Teamwork' illustrates how he collaborates with other glass artists to create one of the 'Tide Pool' series of paperweights.

'Technology' follows one of his 'Body Language' sculptures through from beginning to completion. It shows how the waterjet, diamond drinder, abrasive blasting and ultraviolet adhesive are all brought together to serve the idea represented in the artwork.

'Scale' is a brief glimpse into the setup and process involved in making a large solid flameworked piece.

Flameworking with Teamwork, Technology & Scale
Item #	Description	Price
	Flameworking with Teamwork, Technology & Scale	$39.95