A Full Night
Everyone made it in tonight and we added a new student which means that we have a butterfly to show you today.
Let’s start with Gerald who made a butterfly with clear antique wings and a nice deep blue body as his first project. Antique glass is always translucent with random lines swirled into the mix. The clear antique has a very rich look about it and it certainly added some style to the butterfly that Gerald made. He contrasted the clear wings with a nice deep blue body and head. I’m afraid that our night class suffers a problem that will not go away: We are unable to take pictures of the finished projects outside with sunlight behind them. So we do the best we can indoors which generally isn’t too much of a problem but when you have clear glass in a project you really need daylight behind it to appreciate it fully. I’ve taken 2 pictures of Gerald’s butterfly. One against a white piece of paper (which doesn’t show the wings well) and the other in front of a towel in hopes of showing you some of the texture that’s in the glass he chose. All in all his work was flawless. Normally I’ll touch up the sodlering on the butterfly, but Gerald’s soldering was perfect enough for me to forgo any touchups as they just weren’t needed. Next week he’ll be starting a window made of all different clear glasses in a geometric design.
Amanda finished cutting the few remaining pieces of her fish and went to work grinding everything to fit. She’s made some good headway towards finishing as you can see from the left side and bottom sections of her window. This is going to be another nice one when it’s finished.
Christine spend the day at a grinder also. Her flower was all cut and she’s got about 1/3rd of her window ground now. I’m suspecting that she will be taking her pieces home to wrap next week. Again, this window is based on a painting that she did and I think she’s doing wonderfully.
Craig cut a lot more of his window this week. He gound everything that he cut and got it all tacked into place. This leaves him with 20 pieces to go before he can rest easy and take his time soldering. Since his window has 127 pieces altogether I’d say he’s making GREAT time! It’s really starting to take shape now and you can just about see what it’s going to look like when it’s finished.
Last but not least we have Jane. She’s got her window backgound cut and ready to go this week. All she needs now are two borders and she’ll be finished cutting. Since she just did a border 3 weeks ago I think she realizes now that she’s almost finished with this window. The hard part is certainly behind her now and I can’t wait to see what this one looks like next week.
That was about it for tonight but rest assured you’ll see more here tomorrow when our afternoon class wraps it up.
Paul