Paula's Spiderman is easily recognizable by anyone who's over the age of five. For the past 20 years he's been everywhere as his movies are always making money. Paula isn't the first student to render him in glass but this one stands out due to the detail in the webs on his face. All in all it's a fantastic likeness!
Cindy finished her Cardinal Cross and it's ready for delivery. It's wonderful that so many or our students are selling things to help offset the cost of continuing their hobby.
Cheryl's latest Wedding Box looks fantastic and hopefully it will steal the show when all of the wedding gifts are opened! I see no reason why it wouldn't.
Betty's Christmas Bird (the first of three others) is now complete. There are a lot of pieces in this small piece which means that making these takes both time AND patience but Betty has proven herself to be up to the task. Having it look this good certainly helps motivate her to get the others completed.
Let's Cross was made from all clear iridized glass with straight cuts that line up spectacularly. All that precision makes it hang nice and straight as well!
Keri has begun work on a large Stitch Suncatcher. In just one evening (and not even a complete evening) she managed to trace out the pattern onto poster board and then cut out all of the glass for this cute little guy. Sweet!
Kandise is another fast worker who managed to trace her project pattern onto poster board, cut the pattern pieces out with scissors and then got almost all of her Camera cut out of glass as well! I'm going to show her how to get a large whole cut into the center of the lens without any lead lines leading up to it. More on that next week.
Julie tacked her Hamsa Hand together and then got an arched background cut out as well. Once that was all tacked together she got the straight strips cut for her first border. That's a productive class for sure!
Betty currently has three more Cat Suncatcher ready for whiskers along with a new Christmas Toy Soldier Suncatcher that we've not seen before. This entire work board is simplicity at its finest.
Tracey made a lot of progress this week as she managed to get almost all of the petals cut out for her Magnolia. Let me tell you that the glass she picked did NOT want to work with us because those long thin pieces just wanted to break in all of the wrong places. But in the end Tracey won and I know that the green for the leaves will cut far easier.
Cindy's Golf Window was all tacked together and after a little agonizing she settled on a green glass with some wisps of brown throughout it for her border. I think it's a perfect match and it really brought the window to life when compared to the light amber that Cindy was originally leaning towards.
Susan R's Autumn Leaf is very close to being completely cut and ground. She has really shown off her skills with this project along with her excellent color choices. When it comes to making this leaf it's no walk in the park, but Susan is working both determinedly and steadily through its creation.
Mary Grace resumed the work on her small and somewhat delicate Nativity Scene which features a beveled stable whose roof sits perilously atop two small upright bevels. The hinge point that this creates is one of the worst I've ever seen so we needed to come up with a way to sturdy this structure. First we added some brass channel all around the stable which helped a lot but the addition of wire buried in the solder of the inside arch made this a sound as can be. Where there's a will there's a way.
Here's a look at the other four Dragonfly Spoons that Susan D is currently working on. As you can see she's got these just about ready for solder.
Paula's Ironman head looks particularly masculine in all of that red and gold armor. She's doing another great job on this and it will certainly be completed before she comes back to class since it will be gifted to it's owner on Sunday. Paula says she'll send me a completed picture so I can share it here in our next post.
Linda L's got all of her glass cut, ground, and attached for her Fractured Window which featured a square bevel in the center with the words "Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much" inscribed on it. She hopes to be soldering this while at home so who knows how far along this will be when Linda comes back in.
Even though Mary was unable to work on her Tiger Eye Window while at home she still managed to get it all ground while in class. She then began foiling each of her pieces and got pretty far on that as well. You may notice that there's a small piece missing along the top edge. We will fill that in after she's foiled everything and tacked this all together.
Jan dropped in and picked up her pattern for a Sweet and Simple Heart panel that will be displayed on a small easel which will reside on a table rather than hanging in a window. Glass choices are limited when making something that will have an easel or a wall behind it because you don't want to use anything too transparent to see through the window. We'll see what Jan picks when she returns.
Forever persistently yours,
Paul
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