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8 Aug

have I ever posted an updated fursona ref on here? Anyway here’s Laz! exact shade of colors or exact markings don’t matter, we’re just here to have fun.

ITS SOLDERING TIME, BABY!!!!! …. i’m so afraid i’m going to break this while soldering hhhh here we go. Hopefully i’ll be able to update with it finished later this week! I need to frame it with zinc and i’ve never used zinc or cut zinc before so it’ll take a bit to figure out haha.

SO THRILLED with my little badge!!! love that you offered these, thanks for doing a cute one of my jackrabbit boy!

Chocodile ➡️ TFF DD ➡️ Furlandia DD@chocodile.net

Some Halloween themed badges/photo cards from Spooktacufur! This isn't all of them, just the ones I got good photos of. The jackrabbit in the second pic is @rabbitifystudios.bsky.social's!

Had a phenomenal time at Spooktacufur this year! i loved having enough space to work on copper foiling a big piece and getting to talk about the process of working on stained glass. so grateful for the love i get from furries at cons 🙏

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Crow 🌿

@crowlines.net

Sage Bunny + Cafe Latte 🐰 (alternatively, matcha + coffee)

Shoutout to the stranger who left this drawing on the table paper at the community arts center I frequent. I’m obsessed.

Looking forward to my first PDFC!! Never been to this con and i’m thrilled they accepted my work to be amongst their dealers! yippee.

Finished up this piece for @chocodile.net !! Interpreted one of their illustrations and adapted it for stained glass…. it was an awesome and challenging project and I loved the opportunity to make this. I’m going to be so sad to see it go!

lil studio video to show off the flow of the colors and the iridescence of the glass

slowwwwly coming along with this big wip i’ve been working on. Got the jackrabbit foiled, still working on finalizing the outer frame but I want it to be a big whimsical glass celebration. we’re getting there!!

Couple o rabbit skulls in the studio. I’ve got so many projects in the studio right now that have strict deadlines so i’ve been working some long days to get them outta there. Hoping to share some finished big projects soon!

I can’t get over how awesome this white glass is…. woah. This glass makes me wanna keep one of these for myself. I love that orange glow.

I've been faced with a strange sensation of being forced to look my work in the eye and take it seriously in a way I haven't before? I always find my creativity is playful and fun and aloof and private. Since I've been taking this professional development course i've had to really ponder it.

Been sitting there trying to put into words how I make art, but also Why I make art. What's inside me that has to come out? Why do I make art to show other people? What do I hope they get out of it? It's hard to boil the abstract down to real words without also diminishing my own words too.

I just always felt like someone who "wasn't good" at art at all so I did it in secret and taught myself whatever I wanted to do. But I was never good at those things, I just did them for fun for myself. But now I'm having to manifest my creativity and look it in the eye and treat it w respect.

It's not Private anymore, it's been more public? And I don't necessarily mean posting online or anything, just having to present to a class and have them critique what I'm working on while also creating new works. I have to write about it. I've never felt good w words so I make art instead.

After an incredibly difficult week I went to an estate sale and found SO MUCH STAINED GLASS… grabbed this full sheet of Bullseye glass with its original price tag on it, worth more than my last car. I paid $25 🤯🫣🤯

i love ambers!!

idk how this copper is even made or what i’m going to do with it, i’ve just never seen this in my life until now.

this piece is giving muscle and fat and gore and it’s so cool

gold plated!

Half sheet of streaky blue green yellow

dichroic glass sheets!

I spent all day cataloguing and looking and feeling all this new glass. I’ll post some of my favorites!

Got some glass polish for the first time and WOW….. i should’ve known it would make such a difference but it still feels good! these skulls will be available at Spooktacufur at the end of the month!

I have a month full of con prep and need to finish an enormous panel for a gallery showing at the end of the month, but now I really want to make a puppet..... I feel like I should get into puppetry. What if I made a puppet. What if.

I'm also losing some free time due to needing a part time job, so that'll cut into my time.... argh. I can't be making puppets now. Maybe in the future!

I DID IT….. finished 35 paws. One’s a commission but the rest will be available at Spooktacufur this year! This batch came out pretty colorful this time!

I've been unemployed since moving here and it's seriously eating through my money. I wish I made more money selling glass, but sales have always been finicky and uncertain. Some months I can pay bills off my glass! some months are definitely a no.

Like everyone times are hard and money doesn't go as far as it once did. I'm looking for part time work to try and help cover bills, but I haven't landed anything yet. It sucks!! I'm tired of this!! I wish I could find a job that didn't destroy my ass but the times for being picky are running out.

22 Sept

My goodies from the glass fusing class I took last week! I want to come back and make more when I’ve got the chance. love my little autumnal ghost.

21 Sept

Working on foiling 30 paws! also had the chance to straighten up my work station. feels good to have a clean studio with a ton of glass hanging around!

Be a use my next con is a furry one I need to make a ton of glass paws…. shoutout to anyone who’s ever bought one of these from me before. they’re the thing i hate making the most, but goddamn if people don’t love them.

I HATE CUTTING THESE ITS SO BORING and making 30 at once is going to kill me. Denfur wiped me clean out so its time to fully restock.

I hyperfocused for most of the day and got 25 paws cut from glass then got half of them ground out. Even started work on my upcoming big jackrabbit project (unless i decide to resize the entire piece…. 24” may be too big 😓

Usually I make 9 at a time since that’s how many fit on a 12” sheet of vinyl, but today i’m trying to get all 30 done at a time. hoping I can get them all done this week! then i’ll be free to make other things afterwards.

17 Sept

I'm taking a creative professional development course, and it means I need to write an artist bio... which I've never done before. Like most folks I find this really difficult. It's been hard to find the words to describe my creative journey and what I'm making now! it's been quite a process.

17 Sept

I've got about a month until the bio is due, and it's going to take a lot of time to turn my scattered half-sentences into a full fluid paragraph. Hoping I can manage it.

8 Sept

Finished up a pair of prickly pear cactus panels for the NM Prickly Pear Festival i’m vending at in a few weeks!! Been a big fan of these funky square frames i’ve been playing with. Really hope both of these find homes there!

2 Sept

caught a neighborhood goober sneaking into our backyard this morning

@timhirschelburns.bsky.social

2 Sept

made it to Denfur last weekend! it was so much fun, so glad my partner and I could make it there. Looking forward to next year!

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Tim Hirschel-Burns

27 Aug

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

26 Aug

one of my partners made Jack a badge…. its been hours and i’m so obsessed. he looks so cute and ready to party 😭

24 Aug

finished my Horned Lizard panel for a returning client! I legit might make another one of these in another colorway, I think she turned out beautifully and I’m going to be so sad when she leaves.

Things i keep asking myself: how important is straight lines in glass work? I find myself actively fighting against straight lines and crisp edges. I just don't like the look of it and I don't like feeling that I Have to have straight edges to master this media?

its true that it takes skill to cut/grind straight edges in glass! it looks nice!! but i absolutely detest that I need to make my work "correct" in order for it to be valid.

I need to find ways to actively fight against having straight lines in the outer frame of my work. I'm not happy w straight edges but i'm feeling unsure about my wobbly lines and imperfect backgrounds.

Yet as i finish another commissioned panel where most of the edges don't match, the sides are warped and uneven, I wonder.... do others think this is a sign of poor craftsmanship?

Made it into a local professional development course for artists! I've never done something like this, it feels crazy to be picked to be amongst a crew of incredibly talented local artists. Looking forward to designing some new glass pieces for this program.