How to make sculptural glass forms using the lost-wax casting technicque with artist Bruno Romanelli

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How Bruno Romanelli created a new glass artwork called Titan. The film illustrates the many processes involved in the making of a highly complex glass casting.

[@leighbell6438]

Beautiful piece. Love the simplicity of form and colour. This is a great tutorial which will help me make a piece I have been wanting to do for some time. The clear steps make the process much clearer.

[@davidrosen3970]

stunning. Perfect. Wow. Thank you.

[@lizzyloucollectables2584]

Absolutely riveted by the process, so much can go wrong. The end result was spectacular, like amber encased in perfect ice sphere half that will never melt.

[@epicepidemic7131]

And then......he drops it~! Truly unbelievable.

[@santoclaupettingzoo]

You Sir, are a true glass GURU!! That piece "TiTaN" is amazingly awesome.

[@jeffreyandrews196]

Pearls before swine.Just be incredibly grateful that a master craftsmen allowed you a glimpse of his process.

[@atzonaftaniel4798]

I love the texture of cire perdue glass pieces. René Lalique designed and made wonderfull glass cire perdue pieces (with his chef d'atelier Maurice Bergelin) to make them look as though they were carved from one block of rock crystal. Rock crystal is a mineral or gem also used by Lalique who had been a jeweller prior to glassmaking. Love your craftsmanship and the wonderfull piece you made, very sensual and tactile. Invites to touch.

[@MaiMai-os7zm]

Omg I am blown away. Gripping... and totally worth the watch

[@strumhead]

fascinating to watch this process. What a lot of work!

[@simongreenham]

beautiful - the man and his craft , great little film too .

[@MaiMai-os7zm]

THANK YOU for this. Beautiful work.

[@latitiaruiz8016]

Absolutely stunning! thank you.

[@watercat1302]

I know nothing about glass making here, so forgive me if I ask: why so many cast and mold for just a glass semi-sphere?

[@TetraDodecaMan]

I was thinking... So this is why it costs 3000 dollars lol. Seemed like a lot of work for a not so mesmerizing finished product

[@Geo-jv5zm]

Art is priceless ... for those who know what art means, how many efforts need and what the result should be ... BRAVO

[@sergiocguimaraes]

Really beautiful . What a technique !! Our deepest congratulations for the technique and creativity. From Stylia Glass Studio in Brazil.

[@TheJiminiflix]

I like this video- no talking.

[@sarahlibeck1745]

Great editing on this video! :)

[@letsif]

The video is better than the piece

[@Raittway]

Very cool watching this process

[@santoclaupettingzoo]

Holy crap just read some of the negative comments. Guys do your f***ing homework on working with glass. Glass is a true bitch to work with and this is ART. If the artist is happy with the outcome, that's what counts. I my self appreciate something made form almost nothing. Way to go Bruno! Keep up the great work!!

[@justinepalmer9756]

A true Glass Artist

[@julianlangham]

For any questions questions related to creating glass artwoks please contact the artist Bruno via his website www.brunoromanelli.com/

[@nouzmb]

He enjoyed doing it

[@saranoamark6360]

How do you recommend removing the wax form from the plaster investment mold with a DIY set up?

[@Al-ny8dk]

Stunning! A scultura that evokes the sense of the cosmos in movement and depth. Breath-takingly beautiful. These comments below that say the glass is not clear... clear glass is easy to buy industrially. This is sublime.

[@azucenagerman8803]

Just art 🤩

[@RobGLive]

What I'm not understanding is why did it take three weeks to fuse and anneal?!

[@maalbema]

Maravilloso

[@daveh9521]

Great condensed view of the glass casting process on a large scale, but...what is it...??

[@pauldjacobs]

Pretty clever processes, but I was waiting for a conclusion but it didn't seem to happen?

[@surface-form6134]

What is that tool called that he is using to shape the dry plaster with, type of potters wheel with cutting attachments?

[@julianlangham]

If you have any questions regarding which tools Bruno uses please contact him directly via his website

[@saranoamark6360]

If I shellac a kiln fired ceramic sculpture can I use this to create an investment mold? If so how do you remove the ceramic piece from the plaster investment without breaking it? Is this challenging?

[@julianlangham]

For any questions questions related to creating glass artwoks please contact the artist Bruno via his website www.brunoromanelli.com/

[@Pump.and.skid.]

what is the flexible paper product being used to make the plaster mold?

[@ifeotto]

it is a sheet of floor coating

[@kitebabe05]

3 weeks in the kiln??

[@nomadapw560]

this video gave me blue balls

[@maalbema]

eres genial

[@jagboy69]

What's the investment? Glass cast?

[@spencerdasilva]

The 3 weeks in the kiln needs more information. Please

[@RichlandJoey]

Actually, the melt was fairly fast. The time-consuming part is the cooling process. With glass that thick, he likely had to cool it down the first couple hundred degrees at no more than 1/2 degree per hour

[@RichlandJoey]

No. Initially, the furnace temperature was probably raised to around 1,600 deg F to melt the glass but the temperature wasn't held there long enough or was cooled down to below 1,200 F too quickly. That allowed the trapped bubbles to be captured. I do traditional glassblowing. When I add fresh glass to the furnace, I raise the temp to 2,200 F and hold it there for at least 2 hours. Then, I slowly cool the glass down to around 1,900 F and hold that temp for several hours. The glass is still molten and fluid but, with the lower temperature, it's more dense. It's a process often referred to as a squeeze - to help get rid of the air bubbles. If cooled down to a solid state without that kind of pause, you get entrapped bubbles.

[@MemphisPains]

The finished piece is interesting. Not sure it's worth all that effort. I feel like the casting process could be simplified if the end goal is a half sphere with a hole in the middle.

[@bobbywinters7892]

Three rights to make a left. And they filmed it.

[@doomedalready]

To bad it was to complicated to explain the process, in each step. very professional

[@cubby1812]

Okay but what is it?

[@tahoefor]

Interesting technique but no wonder it's not popular.

[@Yardoun]

Am I missing something? Lmao, this seems like a whole lot of work for a murkey piece of glass.

[@TylerWashington]

yes

[@atzonaftaniel4798]

This is about sensuality, tactility and the purity of shape. It invites to touch.. You should try

[@JWSmythe]

"art"

[@sean.sullivan]

forget about counting likes and views.. how many times throughout the video did you say "WTF?"

[@DeathmetalPersian]

This is some of the silliest and most inefficient glass making I have ever seen. The outcome is definitely not worth the effort.

[@xyyx1091]

Another youtube “expert “

[@TymstoneArt]

I thought it looked amazing. Oh taste

[@Hundred100]

ok so im not the only one thinking this, way too many steps for an opaque half sphere

[@rajibusa]

way too strugle for a simple thing!

[@OneEphraimite]

I can understand why it's a lost technique, it's definitely not efficient.

[@Valient6]

I agree with most people on here. This thing looks dumb.

[@cplcabs]

What the heck is it? That’s a lot of work, time and energy for that chunk of glass which is full of bubbles and poorly polished

[@coffeelover1507]

If he was going to carve the original model he could have carved the piece of plaster that the glass went into for casting 1. carve plaster 2: put in glass and fire in kiln 3:finish work off.

[@ZiggyWhiskerz]

it took three weeks in a kiln!!!! seriously??

[@manchitas3531]

WTF is that?