My real passion in glass

I hope to continue with this blog even though the 30 day sgrafitto challenge is done.  My real passion in glass seems to be animals but especially cats; large and small.  Here is a batch of kitties that i'm working on now and i also wanted to post a pic of one or two of my big cats so that you can see what i do.  These are all done with glass powders applied in layers and manipulated some with very small tools.  They undergo several firings in the kiln to fuse the glass...a simple one may have 1-2 firings but more complicated ones may have 6-12.