Melissa's Tiffany styled Birds Window is pure perfection. The key to making a window look vintage (and Tiffany styled) is to use multiple colors throughout each subject matter. In this case Melissa had varied the colors that make up each bird rather than using a single color each of them. Rather than using just pink flowers she's made a mixture of light pinks dark pinks and white. The icing on the cake is her attention to detail which makes this window such a standout.
Bee's Peacock is a fiery delight that has captured everyone's attention. Great work and a wonderful color scheme sets this apart from other peacocks that we've see made in class. Bee has made this pattern with an eye for color and a dash of panache as well.
Let can always be counted on to get plenty of work done throughout her week. Her first completed item is this elegant circular Woman's Hat. Beautiful precise curves make the circular border as perfect as the hat itself.
Let also made this stunning Geometric Suncatcher as well as her Hat and this is yet another example of just how perfectly she can grind and follow a pattern.
Susan R put the finishing touches on her cute Halloween themed Pumpkin Gnome and he's ready to be 'planted' in a flower pot! This one moved really quickly for Susan and she'll ready to start a small project of mammoth proportions next.
Judy is seeing Crosses in her dreams (nightmares?). He latest is a new design and it looks like she's giving up the old design for the new one.
Cheryl has a wedding coming up so she's dropped Mr Bingle so that she can get this Wedding Box finished in time for the wedding. She had started working o this at home which is why she is this far along on the top already. The top lid will surely be completed when she comes back in two weeks from now.
After completing her Tiffany Birds Melissa said she wanted to make something easy but I do not think the word EASY means what she thinks it means. But holy cow, look how far along she is on this already! I guess it IS easy (to her).
Cindy decided to make a Ghost Suncatcher this week and almost got to complete it but like our students always say, "class comes to an end way too soon." That said, I have no doubt at all that this will be soldered and ready for hanging upon Cindy's return.
Kandise is well under way on her new Cardinals Window. Featuring one male and one female the only glass left to cut out on this is the green for the four leaves and the the flower petals that reside between the heads of the two birds. I have a funny feeling that this will be ground before you know it.
Lara's making great strides with her African Woman Window and she's been grinding it here and there as she gets sections of it cut out. That colorful dress consists of a lot of pieces which can quickly overtake the limited real estate available on the paper pattern if things aren't ground and pinned into place.
Linda L got all of the glass cut for the inner oval section of her window and is now grinding those pieces. When I say that she is grinding them I'm sort of exaggerating because all she's really having to do it skim them to make them fit. There's probably about 2% of those pieces that will need SLIGHTLY more than a skim but that's just a drop in the ocean when you look at just how many pieces make this up.
Martha has all of her Sunflower cut out and ground save for the border (which is how we do things in here). The first thing we did was to add some thickness to the sunflower's stems since they were originally only lead lines which didn't look like they could support a bumble bee let along a flower of this magnitude! Adding green stems cut from glass has helped make this window look so much better.
Lorrie's Whale Shark has a border attached and is ready to get it's back side soldered. Since this is a small window I'm sure that it will be completed when she returns. She's also got all of the pieces that make up the clear front ends of her Oil Scope Wands cut out as well so these are going to go together in the very near future.
Susan D has tacked together all of her leftover Humming Birds and Flowers and has assembled a total of three Suncatchers from her lot of five humming birds and four flowers. It's hard to see here but she's actually doubled up things to come up with this total. She'll be soldering and possibly adding some wire when I show her my idea for holding together the tricky two birds in one suncatcher.
Ann's Fractured Background is just about ready for solder which means that she'll be finishing this project up before you know it!
It's becoming very plain to see that the pieces in the second section of MiMi's Lamp are quickly being foiled. It won't be long until MiMi shifts her first tacked section over on her mold and then begins adding the pieces to the second section.
Annette began soldering her LSU Window and made some incredibly great progress on it. Her soldering has really come a long way when compared to her first pieces. She'll be flipping this over before you know it to solder the back side (which should go faster than the front side since there isn't solder on it already which needs to be re-melted.) The end is very near.
Mary Grace has another frame ready to be soldered and only has two more to make after this one. Repetition can be mentally taxing and I do believe that Mary Grace is VERY happy to be finishing this run of frames.
Here we see that Judy is starting her second color variation of the completed Cross that we saw at the start of his post.
Lastly I have to report that Zoe was in this week just long enough to pick up the pattern for her next project. All I'm going to say is Dinosaur. You'll see what that comes down to when we see Zoe again.
And so it goes!
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
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