Playtime

No matter my age, the best moments in life are playtime.  While creating unique accent lamps, time stops and I’m gone. It’s just plain fun. In this product category, child images frolic with abstractions and I’ve  just let my funny bone do the driving.

  • Bow StringAccent lamp shown in full sun in three stages of rotation arranged in a triptych.

    Bow String

    $325.00

    A doodle, following a suggested musical clef, wanders all over this lamp. Ever look at the back of a high school notebook? The good ones are filled with doodles. These are a mental escape from all that dead air in the classroom. This doodle tableau becomes a roadmap for a scatter of woven of scorched horse tail hairs. They create the wiggly black lines .

    All of this is depicted against a fire cracker red. It’s transparent around the middle band and finished with a high gloss top layer. My wife says she’d pay someone to get it out of our house. But they’d have to fight me.

     

    4 X 10 In.

  • Face view of powder glazed accent lamp, flood lit.Accent lamp shown in full sun in three stages of rotation arranged in a triptych.

    Peeling Paint

    $325.00

    Shown amongst my other photos for this piece, is one by Ms. Camille Martin, TA based artist, poet, photographer. I discovered her work displayed by the “Peeling Paint Appreciation Society.” Like Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole, my imagination just tumbled into this image. I applied my typical guidelines; first simplify, then exaggerate. In my accent lamp glass media, the image has no edges. It just flows.

    Two colors encircle this accent lamp. The black is labeled “Illusion Midnight”. The orange is a 50/50 mix of “Cosmic Sassy” and “Spanish Fly”. The curved streaks are clear glass. The wiggly black lines are scorched horse tail hair.

    “Pelling Paint” is now featured on ARTSY.net, one of the world’s largest platforms connecting art lovers and collectors!

    https://www.artsy.net/artwork/terrence-schilling-peeling-paint-02

     

    4 X 10 In.

  • Face view of powder glazed table lamp, flood lit.Table lamp shown in full sun in three stages of rotation arranged in a triptych.

    Splitting Particles

    $200.00

    There’s a technique developed in raku pottery where they create vibrant wriggles of black lines. They use horse tail hairs. Just what I need to depict nuclear fission where subatomic debris flies off in all directions. Sketched on a glossy, vivid blue and silver glazed surface, I’ve combined this technique with dry powder coating. On this table lamp, a composition of transparent circles is connected with random lines. Circles and patterns transpose on each other as the lamp is rotated.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Art glass lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying front view.Art glass lamp lit by the LED shown in three stages of rotation arranged in a triptych.

    Sky Divers

    $325.00

    A lamp with an image that relates to an individual sports athletic event: A friend challenged me. A group of sky divers floated into my imagination. Now the fun started. On the face of my lamp, they fall through a particolored hole in the sky. Below, on the back face of my lamp, is a landing zone. Agricultural fields bounded by dark hills on the left and on the horizon, a slender river.

    This art glass lamp has seven different layers of powder coated glaze.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Lamp shown under full sun, front view.

    Frog Full of Kids

    $325.00

    On this unique glass art lamp I reveal the energy source that makes frogs suddenly leap and croak ’till dawn. When kids fly around, frogs snatch them out of air like bugs. So frogs are bulging with the exuberance of kids at play.  Bight orange eyes bulge above the frog’s body which is splashed in colors of tan, lime and forest green.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Flood lit views of lamp in three stages of rotation are arranged in a triptych.

    Cat Full of Fish

    $325.00

    Who would come up with this? At Bonita Canyon grade school, awards are given for art and my seven year old took a prize. The composition on Cat Full of Fish is a re-rendering.  I used seven separate layers of powder glaze. One for each color. All the fish are in clear glass. Below a deep blue rim filled of clear glass bubbles, now the cat appears inside an aquarium, staring out at us.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Shown on a display shelf with its LED illuminated, lamp displays brilliant patterns of light.

    Delicious

    $175.00

    The playful projections of a disco mirror ball inspired Delicious. Bands of firecracker red and silver flow through a scramble of colored dots and clear glass eyelets. Gazing through the eyelets reveals the silvery inner surface. This lamp embodies the spirit of dancing lights.

    4 X 10 In.

  • Lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying face view.WM2_7473

    Kid Party

    $135.00

    A handcrafted glass creation that projects the joy, surprise, and elation of a kid’s birthday party. Dots frolic around the top and bottom. Colors are subtle gold, firecracker red and clear glass. This lamp celebrates playfulness.

    2.5 X 10 In,

  • Unique glass lamp shown against flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Under full sun, lamp projects a sharp shadow image onto backdrop.

    Harlequin

    $135.00

    This powder coated lamp, a new art medium on glass, is inspired by the Italian opera character Harlequin His role is that of a light-hearted, nimble servant. The harlequin is a composition of dots and squares in lime green, orange, and clear glass. These shapes collide, bringing mirth to center stage.

    2.5 X 10  In.

  • Lamp shown with flood lit backdrop displaying face view.Mir-W-Trip

    Mirror World

    $175.00

    Italo Calvino’s whimsical novel Invisible Cities inspired this design. An inky blue sea captures reflections from twin moons. A pale blue sky with clear glass stars and meteors expands above a pair of identical mountains. This lamp projects surrealistic images of an alien planet.

    4 X 10 In.

No matter my age, the best moments in life are playtime.  While creating unique accent lamps, time stops and I’m gone. It’s just plain fun. In this product category, child images frolic with abstractions and I’ve  just let my funny bone do the driving.