View from the plane coming into Venice airport
View from the plane coming into Venice airport
Water! Taxis!
Taxi stop at Venice airport
Private water taxis at Venice airport
More taxis at Venice airport
Luggage piled onto water taxi
A view of Murano as we come to the Museo stop
Another view from the taxi
Murano Grand Canal
Venier Taxi Stop - Murano
Murano Parking Lot
View of what we saw as we walked to the studio
LIttle Murano street - many of these quaint little lanes
View across the canal
Glass gallery next to Lucio's studio
V iew from our apartment - boats ready for rain
View form our apartment window
Another view from the apartment
Our living room
Stairs to the bedroom and bathroom - not all rooms are laid out this way
Living Room
Our little kitchen
The garden
Bedroom
Little bathroom with shower
View of the living room from the stairs
Anne getting ready for a picture
A moving boat - we were wondering how they do this and voila!
Views of Murano
Houses on the way to Venice
A glass factory and showroom
Yes - things are old here! This bridge needed a little extra help.
On the way to Venice - beautiful!
Another glass factory and gallery
On the way to Venice
On the way to Venice
Venice
Venice - laundry is nothing to be ashamed of!
Venice - nice architechture
More Venice - see the little face sculpture above the doorway?
Venice - some houses are more colorful than others
Venice - I liked these windows
Venice - one bridge to another
Venice - Some buildings are right at the water's edge
Venice - a gondola parking lot
Venice - park entry
Venice - newer bridge
Venice street
Venice - beautiful building on a square
Venice - canals - so much more impressive in person!
Venice - more canals and taxi stop
Venice - on the way to the Rialto
Venice - busy shopping
Venice - shopping district
Venice - smaller canals - I loved way these doorways were at water level
Venice - nice views from all directions
Venice piazza
Venice canals - near here we saw a sign, “No more than 3 gondolas at a time”
Venice - clock tower
Venice - pretty shopping
Venice - no cars but still very busy
Venice - interesting lamp on the side of a building
Venice - approaching San Marco
Venice - canal views
Venice - gondola at the Rialto Bridge
Venice - view from the Rialto Bridge
Venice - Rialto shopping district
Venice - gondolas on a little side canal
Venice - very busy!
Venice - Marzipan - YUM!
Venice - San Marco cathedral
Venice - more San Marco
Venice - more San Marco
Venice - San Marco piazza
Venice - San Marco
Venice - San Marco
Venice - Pillar at San Marco
Venice - San Marco
Venice - San Marco
Venice - San Marco
Venice - San Marco - incredible sculpture
San Marco - closeup of building sculpture
Venice - San Marco
Venice - San Marco
Venice - Gondola station
San Marco
Venice - San Marco - these columns were made of different types of stone
Venice - San Marco
Venice - San Marco
Venice - bridge over canals
Venice - beautiful canals
Venice - despite the name
Venice - tiny little streets
Venice - canal
Venice - gondolier in canal
Venice - more gondoliers
Venice - old mixes with new - notice the satellite dish
Venice - bridge to small street
Venice - hospital
Venice - hospital
Venice - ambulance boat
Venice - some houses are in better condition than others
Back to Murano - cemetary island
Murano - cool view into a courtyard
Murano - beautiful ironwork
Murano - pigeons benefitting from the old wells
Murano - Lucio's entrance
Murano - Lucio's sign - he had this made in Wales!
A view of the studio - look at that ventilation!
Italian torch - not your average Nortel Minor (torch)
Individual workstation - this one was Anne Londez's
Lucio's sculpture - first demo
Lucio's sculpture - demo
My first mermaid - scary!
Lucio's mermaid - look at those reeds and the glass “rope” - amazing!
Another view of Lucio's mermaid
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio's demo
Lucio - gallery piece
Lucio - gallery pieces
Lucio - gallery pieces
Lucio - gallery piece
Lucio - gallery piece
Lucio - doing a perfooormance
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
My first attempt at a mythological creature - a bit chunky
Another of my winged experiments!
mIne - female and male torsos - getting a little better
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio - another perfoormance
Lucio - making an angel
Lucio - face demo
Look at that 'mater! It was delicious for lunch one day.
Diego demoing ring making
Diego - making rings
Rings - I made the purple one and Diego made the base of the black ring while I made the flower
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
My attempt at angel wings - one cracked off
Lucio - demo - Leda and the Swan
A visit to the hot shop - that guy made about 20 stoppers while we were there
Hot shop
Hot shop
Hot shop
Hot shop
Lucio demo - mine all mine! Lucio graciously gave us small pieces at the end of the class and I chose this one
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demoing Medusa - we all held our breaths during this one!
Lucion - demo
Lucio - Medusa finished
Lucio - demoed “architechture” - this was a pendant
Lucio - Medusa added to a goblet
Lucio and Diego - making a goblet together
Diego - making a goblet
Diego - making a goblet
Diego - making a goblet
Lucio and Diego - finished goblet
Lucio and Diego collaborating
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio - demo
Lucio - sharing knowlege with Ray Skene and Rachel Elliott (guy is background was just visiting)
Anne Londez, Lucio, Shan, Rachel
Anne, Lucio and Rachel
Lucio - architechture to add to goblet
Lucio - demo
Anne Londez, Lucio, Anne Stanley, Ray, Dora
My workstation
Lucio
Lucio with DoDo (spelling?)
Lucio - finished piece - this one will sell for thousands!