Lisa's Sugar Skull is a work of art for sure. She not only made this stunning large Suncatcher-- she designed it as well! Her choice of purple for the hat is a color choice that I would never have thought of but certainly will now that I've seen the hat in place atop Lisa's stunning piece of art.
MiMi's first of two different Notre Dame Windows consists of all straight lines which is actually very difficult to do (correctly). You can clearly see that there's not a line out of place in this window which is even more impressive considering that she began this just last week. It's amazing work all around but that's just how MiMi handles her stained glass making.
Zoe finished her Longhorn Skull and her end result looks amazing. Her attention to detail and her strive for perfections shows in each and every one of her projects with this one being no exception. The best part about this is that she is more than pleased with the fruits of her stained glass labor! It's always nice to love what you've created.
Jeannette certainly made short work of her Sunset (Sunrise?) Window. It was just two weeks in the making and her soldering on it is just as incredible as her glass choices are.
Linda's Three Birds On a Branch were completed and then accented with glass beads for the bird's eyes. This is a quick, simple and elegant solution to the troublesome process of grinding small eye sockets and then dealing with cutting tiny round eyes to fit into the tiny round opening.
Let's Christmas Poinsettia was finished and her choice of fractures and streamers background glass adds so much with so little in this piece. It's a simple design made all the better by terrific glass choices.
Steve began this Fleur De Lis last week when he cut it out and this week he's taken it home as a finished project. He's colored the lead with black patina which means that he foiled any of the clear pieces of his glass with black backed foil. This ensures that the inner edge of the foil that you can see through the clear pieces match the black lead so that everything blends together seamlessly.
Lorrie is another student who not only works on stained glass while in our classroom but at home as well. Last week we saw her fox which still needed eyes and this week she has the Fox as well as a Cross completed. She keeps busy, that's for sure.
Betty finished another Cat Suncatcher with the redesigned tail (the older pattern has been officially retired now) as well as a White Pumpkin of her own -- or is it a gourd? I must admit that I don't know for sure!
Linda F also cut the remaining pieces of her Beach Themed Teardrop Suncatcher. All of the glass has been cut out now and she's even managed to grind the bottom portion of it.
Susan D worked at the grinder on her two Geometric Suncatchers and got one completely ground with the other one just 2 or 4 pieces away from being completely ground as well. The end is near.
Lorrie also began work on another Box featuring a pair of roses, one in red and the other in pinks. She's fast becoming the box queen!
Cindy made some excellent progress on her Holly Heart largely due to the fact that she finished the actual holly leaves and was able to spend most of her class working on the much larger pieces that make up the background and the border that forms the heart. She used white iridized for the border and it's a perfect match for the rest of this beautiful piece.
Judy's Deer Window has been completely ground and now she's working on foiling all of her pieces so she can tack it all together and then get a border cut out. I'm thinking that we'll see the color that she picks for a border in our next blog post.
Annette's Sacred Heart Window is impressive for sure. She did almost all of the work on this while at home and only needs to get the sword cut and positioned into the window before she can begin soldering.
June's Goat Window is coming together piece by piece and I do know that it IS a goat and not a donkey. I heard Cheryl call it a donkey last week and it subconsciously came out of my head and into the blog last week when I talked about it!
Bee got all of her Cantina window ground and foiled and then decided to actually paint the lettering onto the glass that will form the banner of the window. Once the enamel glass paint dries it will go into the kiln where it will fire onto the glass permanently. After the paint goes through the heating process the letters will turn into a dark red color instead of being the pink that they are now. Also, Bee painted the letter so quickly that she even got a border cut and tacked onto her window. Now that's what I call a productive night!
Angie's Pelican Window kept her busy as she replaced the neck of the bird to cover a small missing chip in the background glass. Once the background and the new neck was tacked together a border was cut, ground, foiled and attached as well. Soldering is the only thing left to do on this one and then Angie will move on over to a new project.
Lastly, Martha's got her Franklin Streetlight well under control as well as under way. After previewing MANY different sheets of glass for a single border and not being happy with any of them she went with the tried and true method of using two borders. She began with a clear thin inner border and then followed that with the same glass that she used for her background. She even had enough background glass left over to allow the grain of the border to flow consistently from left to right rather than radiating outward from each side. It's a subtle difference but those in the know will spot the advanced grain placement instantly.
And there ya have it-- everything that happened during the first week of September.
Paul
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