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Some glass art coming out of the Kiln. This is a piece that is what it wanted to be.

Some pleasant color in the yard. Thank you flowers for showing up!

Happy Friday everybody! Pic of a nice Orchid blooming in the front yard. We have been looking forward to seeing this one bloom.

A reposting of some fun older dichro glass pieces because they are fun to look at and proof something easy to overlook like glass can be amazing. #glassart #glass

A potted Hoya plant in our yard just bloomed. the cluster of fuzzy red flowers are amazing. Hoyas are fascinating houseplants. #plants

In the garden today I got a halfway decent photo of a poison dart frog, these little guys aren’t native but they are very photogenic and shy. #frog

a fun new piece I made coming out of the glass kiln. Please don’t touch the walls of the dimensional vortex. #glassart #stainedglass #art

Trying something new in my fused glass mosaic art. I am pretty happy in how it came out With some fun use of negative space and a lot of personality. There is something called the Volcano school of art, it would fit right in. #glassart #islandart

Something experimental I made recently as a glass mosaic. the hole drilled at the top makes it easy to hang. #glassart #stainedglass

Fun experimenting with tack fusing and some glass effects you cannot easily do with a full fuse firing. Before and after pic. #glassart #stainedglass

A couple of fun glass pieces that came out of a recent firing. #glassart

An amber necklace made up using one of my glass pendants. Collaboration by artists can be awesome and in this case make excellent gifts. After all it is hard to be good at everything, but when people share the different things they are good at… magic. #glassart #glass #islandart

#artglass #islandart #stainedglass

Dichroic glass has two colors to it, these pictures kind of show off how the same piece can look blue or yellow depending on the lighting. fun design too, I should try that again. Made with “glassline” black. #glassart #glass #dichroic

Some crafty office coworkers have made a good case to include goth gnomes in the spooky season. #halloween

Beautiful morning in Hilo Bay. Nice view of Mauna Kea.

my favorite garden inhabitants. Very hard to photograph because they are shy.

My most recent work in progress. #stainedglass #glassart

Here are pictures of my glass Pueo owl mosaic before and after lightly being (tack) fused together. This makes all the tiny glass shards into one solid piece and keeps the detail better than full fusing. #glassart #stained glass #islandart

Finishing up a small owl, glass mosaic. I will tack fuse it together (the only grout is clear glass frit). It has plenty of personality and will look great as a suncatcher. Used the native pueo markings, they have cool dark lines around the eyes. #glassart #mosaic

Took a casting class where you carve bullseye vermiculite board to make a mold for glass. Behold my mighty green glass doughnut. A important thing with casting colored glass is a little bit of color goes a long way #glassart #glass #Casting

Nice picture of a Rainbow Shower tree in bloom. These are popular street trees in Hawaii and can indeed create showers of petals that are very cool. #plants #garden

For all you Monstera houseplant fans, this is what it looks like in the forest and why it’s got that name. Please don’t plant outside. Pic from the Lyon Arboretum in Honolulu #houseplants #plants

Just did a kiln firing, my most recent work. Plenty of personality so I’m happy with the result. Fused glass mosaics are really cool, I hope more people try it. Does require a glass kiln. #glassart #tiki

Dredging of Pohoiki boat ramp has been underway for the past two weeks, as crews work to remove 42,000 cubic yards of black sand, rocks and boulders, deposited by the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea.

Dragonfruit blossom, my neighbor grows them and the flowers are always amazing. #plants #garden

They recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of art deco. I wanted to encourage all glass artists to do a google search for a great French master artist named Rene Lalique. He made amazing art and developed techniques still in use today. Random pic of mine for some color. #glassart #glass

Ball of airplants blooming in the yard. #garden #plants

"It's a deep mural. It's a labor of love. It's slow work." ~Calley O'Neill, artist

I took a class teaching a technique where copper wire is used as an inclusion. It’s always great to learn new techniques. There is room for innovation in glass and I love trying new things with the material to see what happens. #glassart

A fun comparison of two pieces made using the same dichro layer with different colors as background. #glassart

Testing out a new phone camera. This is a tiny landscape made with glassline pens and scraps of glass. As an artist I love taking small pieces of glass and seeing what I can do to make them look cool. #glassart

A not very serious cast glass piece I made because carnivorous plants are cool. Plants will attitude are always fun. #glassart

I finished the double tiki mosaic I was working on and, just got it tack fused and out of the kiln. It has lots of personality. ##glassart #mosaic

When treasure is scarce make some. #glassart

An unusual dichroic glass cabochon. The green colored layer crawled up onto the glass above it creating what looks like a green skin around an eye. Messing around with repeated firings can yield interesting results. #glassart

A nice dichro cabochon that came out of the kiln last week up close. It would make a nice pendant. I probably should sell a few and see if they are popular. #glassart #dichroic #pendant

A pic of my current work in progress, I will post again when it’s done. It will be two Tiki heads stacked. Why? Well its a lot of fun to make. About 30% complete. #glassart

Friday night and took a picture of a cool older piece I made trying for an eye effect. #glassart

A piece I made a few years back that came together well. That iridescent brown is hard to find these days, if anyone knows where to buy it in COE 96 I am interested. #glassart

Pic of a blooming Ohia tree taken this morning. The bees are happy. #plants

A large air plant blooming in the yard. The actual flowers are small but come from that cool pink bract. The plant looks like a small shrub you can pick up and move around the yard because its an air plant, no roots. #houseplants

Ever wonder what is on the back side of a Moai? These pictures were taken at an awesome Bishop Museum exhibit a few years ago. I felt so lucky to see this life size replica in person.

For Friday a cast glass tiki head I made pre pandemic. I love glass casting and it’s because you can make crazy and beautiful stuff like this. This guy has been on fire and it will burn strong for a long while. #glassart #tiki

Apparently its time for Honohono Orchids to go all out. #plants #orchid

Fun pic from last summer at Foster Botanical garden. Titan arum in bloom.

Fun little glass piece with a border pattern. #glassart