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Work for sale on Ebay, username aspenhot:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/aspenhot/m.html

Our Square online store:
https://aspen-hot-glass.square.site/

and on Etsy as aspenhotglass:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/aspenhotglass

Vortex style glass marble made by Bill Grout.
I start out by making a separate core element with gold and silver fuming in a dimensional pattern. This core is then fused with the main clear rod which vortex marbles are built on. The background is filled with dark cobalt frit in an open structure and then solid red. The back side is built out in my usual process with raked color lines using tan, blue green, and amber purple floating over the reflective base.

Bill and Rae Grout are full time artists from Corvallis Montana. “We are science geeks to glassblowers”. They both have technical backgrounds in the high tech avionics industry but left the corporate life to live their dream.
Bill became a full time artist and started blowing glass in 1993 and Rae left the corporate world in 2002 to be with Bill and become a glassblower. In 2016 they began incorporating metal working, dragon attire and Steampunk designs into their glass art. Together they live on a small farm that includes orchards, an extensive garden with a green house, Steampunk shop, Torch shop for torch work glass blowing, Bills Man Cave equipped with a electronics wing and Brew house.
Their farm has fantastic views overlooking the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. Together they spread love and harmony, sharing this fantastic journey called life.

Check out our other YouTube channel:
The Bill and Rae Show
   / @billraeshow