Nightside Studios

06/21/2019

Another sighting of our stuff in the wild: a friend found that our glass flowers and bees play well with her Heath pottery and tiles.

06/07/2019

We call these gumdrop eyeballs. Made especially for bead embroidery and bead weaving.

05/30/2019

Inspiration. After years of nothing, the kiwi vines appear to be making fruit — these little ones make me think “necklace,” or maybe just “earrings.”

05/29/2019

Scenes from the workbench: sea urchin skeletons are sealed with shellac, painted with conductive paint, and plunged into the electrolyte tank where direct current draws copper out of solution and gives them a generous copper plating. These are drying after plating.

05/24/2019

As noted in an earlier post, you can take flameworking classes with Ralph, our principal artist, at the Richmond Art Center, too.

05/24/2019

The RalphDoug, Nightside's principal artist, also teaches flameworking glass here and at the Richmond Art Center.

05/24/2019

Our 13th year doing The Greatest Show & Tell on Earth, and the first year with a whole lot of rain. It was ... interesting.

05/24/2019

Scenes from the 2019 Maker Faire in San Mateo. The RalphDoug shows a dad and kid how to make a glass bee.

05/14/2019

It may be raining this weekend, but we're still doing this, as we have since it's second year. Maybe we'll see you there!

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12/04/2018

Had a great time at the Richmond Art Center holiday gift show. One of our favorite events of the year. Thanks for being there, RAC!
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12/03/2018

New cover is one of our sillier items: The Moviegoer's Emergency Kit. Not flameworked, but still a product of Ralph's fevered imagination.