Bayou Salé GlassWorks: A Wet Doughnut?

Martha's Roses and Birdhouse turned out to be as beautiful as we all expected. She never shied away from the complexity of the pattern as compared to the original which only had three MUCH simpler flowers it. Whenever you add detail you add value, and this window is about to become a priceless gift that will always be treasured.

Cindy's Batman is immediately identifiable and her use of glass paint for the emblem on his chest is wonderful. However, as good as Batman looks Cindy's attention to detail on her Spiderman figure is just mind boggling. Check out the thin black webs that she added with the smallest of brushes. This is impressive indeed! Also of note, the patterns were drawn by a former student of ours named Terry who many regular readers here remember.

Helen finished her E.D. White Window which she is donating so that it can be auctioned off for a great cause. With each window that Helen makes she gets better and better.

Susan D is getting quite good at coming up with designs and interesting ways to utilize different textures throughout her snowflakes. And even though we call them 'Snowflakes' they are beautiful and versatile enough to remain hanging in a window all year round.

Barbara's Orca Window is absolutely stunning due to her fearlessly using a barrage of colors throughout the window. Look closely and you'll see that she's going to be adding an inner border of bevels to this which will bring out the colors even more!

Zoe finished cutting out all of the glass for her Deer Window during her second week of cutting on it. Then, before class was finished she even got a large handful of pieces ground as well. I have to admit that her grinding is moving along quickly because she really took her time while cutting the glass and she now has to only skim each piece to get everything to fit together.

MiMi got all of the glass for her Cherry Blossoms and Cardinals Window ground and it's looking amazing. She's already begun to foil her pieces and the copper foil will help highlight where lead lines will form. I love MiMi's use of color tones in this as the leaves , the flower petals and the birds have been shaded beautifully.

Lorrie's begun to start working on a wonderful Moon Window. Alas, the Crescent Moon had such a deep inside curve that we gave up the ghost and broke out the glass saw to achieve the cut. With that out of the way the rest of this will be simple enough. Still, there are a lot of pieces to this pattern so it should keep Lorrie busy for while.

Susan R's Chefs are coming together quickly as she has now begun to foil her second (and last) Chef. A background will soon be cut and Susan already has her border cut out so this should practically begin to assemble itself at this point!

June got almost all of her Darth Vader ground and will begin wrapping all of his assorted black pieces when she comes back in. I always find foiling glass to be relaxing because, unlike grinding, you can sit throughout the entire foiling process. My feet ALWAYS feel better after a day of foiling as opposed to when I have a day of grinding or cutting to work through.

Susan D's Circular Owl is all ground and she's begun foiling her pieces now. I have to say that I've honestly never seen a more perfect circle. Perhaps just as circular, but never better!

Sheri's got her Buddha Yoga almost ready to be foiled. She only has a few pieces around his torso to be ground and after that the going will be very, very easy for her. I have to say that she's done exceptionally well on all of this already so this being difficult in any way was never a consideration for Sheri.

Patrice is so very close to completing her Bathtub Lady. She had all of the elaborate border pieces cut, ground, wrapped and tacked when she walked in the door so she was able to get to work on soldering right away. By the time that class was over with she had the front side completed as well as the tap-tap edges. With only the back side left to go this will surely be one of our completed windows next week.

Judy has the front of her Cowboys Window all soldered which leaves just the back side to go. You can also read that sentence as,"Judy will have her Cowboy Window completed when she returns next week." Of that there is no doubt.

Melissa is fast approaching the end result of her Sewing Machine Window. She's soldering it now and next week she'll almost certainly bring it home with herself as a finished project. I can't wait until she adds the wire to this which will form the thread and tie everything together.

Bee's Door Insert has been completely soldered on the front side with most of the soldering having been completed on the rear of the window (pictured here) as well. the only thing left to do now is attach the zinc to the window on the back side and then wash and color this.

Jan's got everything soldered on her Transom Window which means that she'll touch up the solder next week and wrap this up. This window will have been completed in record time for her.

Annette filled in all but one of the missing pieces in her New Orleans Scene Window and then went to work soldering it. She's working slow and steady while skipping every other line while she solders to avoid putting too much heat on all of those long thin pieces to avoid breaks. I'm going to give extra points to anyone who can find the missing piece of glass in this. Oh, and it's not the steeple of the church-- that's just been wrapped in copper foil so that it will be all lead when the window is completed.

Ann hasn't decided on a color scheme for her Geometric Toruses so she decided to begin making a Cross this week knowing that she can complete it in the two classes that we have left before she and we go off on vacations for a bit.