[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Glass Artists and the Importance of Notebooks

[Tony Patti]

People I respect like
<http://www.glassblower.info/ed-schmid-glassblowing-books.html> Ed Schmid
and
<http://www.bucks.edu/about/directory/profiles/index.php?showwhat=person&id=
1225> Karl Carter have steadfastly stated that an important step in becoming
a better glass artist is keeping a detailed notebook.

 

My friends at Turning Point Gallery  <http://www.turningpointgallery2.com>
www.turningpointgallery2.com  in Media, PA 

today provided me with these examples of notebook pages of the North
Carolina Glass Artist John Nygren  <http://www.johnnygren.com/gallery.html>
www.johnnygren.com/gallery.html

 

I was awestruck by both his work and his detailed notebooks with color
sketches.

 

You may not be able to tell in the reduced-size photos below, but every
glass piece, now numbering in the thousands, is sequentially detailed in his
notebooks.

 

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Photos of some corresponding John Nygren glass art:

 

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And more notebook pages:





  

 

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Having had authors and teachers emphasize the importance of a detailed
notebook,

and then seeing these example of John Nygren’s awesome notebook pages today,

I feel like quoting from Louis Pasteur's 1854 lecture, he said

"Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits
préparés"

which is most often given the shorter alternate translation 

"Chance favors the prepared mind" which I believe to be very true.

 


Tony Patti
  
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