Lara finished all the work on her Louisiana Collage Window which features various scenes of life in Louisiana. Her window features kayaking, sunshine, crabs, a tiger eyes, music, and magnolias. The sum of all of this and more comes together wonderfully in her latest window.
This week we also got to see Bee's Dandelion Tribute hanging up all finished and looking pretty. There's a lot of symbolism in this window and Bee managed to seamlessly fit it into a medium sized window. Good job!
Judy's Carousal Horse Panel was completed and, as I suspected, it can easily be mistaken for the full sized version of this design. A carousel horse is a stained glass standard because it allows you to use color freely, and that's just what Judy did in this.
Lara also made this large Angel Winged heart which she will be donating. Her work on this was quick, and efficient with an incredible amount of precision thrown into the mix as well!
Annette very nearly completed this Nursing Stethoscope Window in the blink of an eye because it didn't exist at all last week and this week we see she has a nearly completed window! Annette surely puts in a lot of time while she's at home during the week and working alone like that always strengthens a students skills because it forces a person to figure out problems completely on their own.With just the back side to be soldered and some hooks to be added to this, I'd expect to see this completed next week.
Ann has all of her pieces ground for her Circular Cross Window and even got everything wrapped in copper foil before she called it a night. She'll begin soldering this upon her return and before you know it this will be a finished project.
Cindy has completely soldered her Fancy Fleur De Lis and all this needs now is some touch ups, two hooks and a bath to finish it off. Expect to see this in our next update!
Linda L's Mickey Mouse is very nearly completed as she is well under way into the soldering process of the final section that will fill her Mickey Mouse frame work. I can't wait to see all the pieces come together because it will put a new spin on the three pieces which also work wonderfully as stand alone windows.
Lorrie's Sugar Elephants are getting closer and closer to completion. A good two thirds of this is already cut and ground. That said I am expecting to see her Underwater Scene return to class since Lorrie told me that she's going to be ready for a border to be attached by the time her next class comes.
Mary Grace has assembled the letter 'G' for her Monogrammed Volleyball Suncatcher. She'll attach it to the ball when she returns, color it up and then begin on the 3rd of four different Monogrammed Sports Balls.
Martha is well underway on her version of the Fancy Fleur De Lis. Because hers is being made as a window Martha's had more pieces than the others that have been made and that are still under construction and as you can see she's made full use of the border by using alternating Mardi Gras colors throughout it. With the front side soldered I'm thinking that this may be completed upon her return.
Melissa is starting a rather impressive window that was somewhat inspired by L.C. Tiffany's Parrots Window. The birds and their placement may be completely different but the background of complex flowers and leaves gives this a Tiffany feel for sure.
Here we see that Melissa has traced out her pattern and will begin cutting the glass out for this one bird and one flower at a time.
MiMi is grinding her tiny pieces and pinning them to the flat pattern of her lamp. It's important that not of the pieces extend beyond the lines or the lamp will not line up. The two pattern papers that you see below actually form just one third of the lamp. Once everything has been ground on these two pattern papers MiMi will have to repeat the process two more times.
Shelley's Cat Window is all tacked together and even got a border picked out and cut. The border color was a little problematic because she really wanted yellow glass but it just grabbed so much attention that she had to change her mind. She toned it down by picking light tan instead but that blended with the cat too much. Then we discovered this yellow/orange mix in the rack and we all agreed that it was purr-fect!
Susan D has begun to solder her Texas Longhorn and it's so very lose to being completed that I'm sure well see this among our completed windows next week. (This just in-- Susan has texted me a finished picture of her Longhorn but it's arrived a little to late to make this edition of the blog. Look for it next week.)
Cheryl is going to town on her Harley-Davidson Window and fast approaching the work that will be needed to be done on the (simplistic)borders. Cheryl is impressing me with her skills with each passing week.
And there you have it, Au revoir!
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
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