Aurora native turns glass etching hobby into lifelong pursuit
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Larry Roberts shares self-taught art with community
An etching of a woodland duck created for Larry Robert’s father showcases the details in each of his pieces. News-Register/Jeni Moellenberndt
Larry Roberts stands with a variety of the different etching and other glass pieces he has created throughout the years. News-Register/Jeni Moellenberndt
Larry Roberts shows all the ways he has experimented with glass etching from stainless steel tumblers to slate tiles. News-Register/Jeni Moellenberndt
Etching, fusing, tumbling -- if something can be done with glass Aurora resident Larry Roberts has done it. With projects that number into the thousands, there isn’t much that he hasn’t tried.
“I started doing it just simply on a whim and thousands of pieces and 40 years later I’m still doing it,” he said. “Now there are websites, there are tutorials, there are YouTube videos, that show you how it’…
