Another Productive Week
Let’s start with Gerald whose remaining work this week was fairly straightforward: repair a small break in one of the thin orange border pieces and then finish soldering. The repair went smoothly and by the end of the night he had a completed window. The last time Gerald was here he had a small run in with a ‘coon on the road. Let’s hope he made it home without taking any more lives this week. 
Ellen started working on the second of three windows for her fireplace screen. Having finished the large front panel she now has two less complex windows to complete. As you can see from the picture she’s storming right through the glass cutting part of the project. The water and the leaves are all cut. Ellen will be able to breeze through the sky and brush sections of the window– they’re easy. The bird is somewhat complex but I doubt it will slow her down at all. And when it’s finished the last panel will be completed even quicker since it has the least detail of the three windows. Look for another blog posting this week that will show her large window all washed and colored. That’s all that’s left be be done on it and rather than have her waste a class playing with water and chemicals I told her to move along to the next panel and that I would finished washing the first one. When it’s finished (most likely on Saturday) I’ll post the picture here.
Joey ground and wrapped all but the background pieces to his window (which is another student project that involves 3 windows). It looks like he’ll end up cutting out the background pieces next week and then grinding them. Joey is moving along at a nice clip on this project and seems to be comfortable with the process now. I’m going to say that this set of three windows will be finished quickly.
Jane finished her last Dove window and made a slight addition to the standard pattern she’d been using for the past few weeks. This time around the Dove is carrying some holly leaves in its beak. Rather than have lead lines trailing out of each leaf and breaking up the flow of things, she made the holly seperately and then tacked them onto the beak and adjoining lead lines. It was a small addition that added perhaps 15 minutes to the project but as you can see from the picture it really makes the window look much better. Next up from Jane will be a window of a Blue Macaw.
Last but not least we have Cheryl’s part of the three piece window design she’s doing along with Joey. She came in, cut and ground her branches and then got all her background cut out. The background glass that she’s using is a heavily textured clear and from what I can see it looks like it will work perfectly. Cheryl is moving VERY quickly through this project and the work she did on this window while she was at home is impressive.
Her window is the center of the set of 3 and only has a border on the top and bottom. The window on the left will have a border on the left hand side as well as the top and bottom. The window on the right will have a border on the right hand side, the top and the bottom. The border, like the scene inside of it, will span the three windows rather than seperating them. Here is a picture of Joey’s window next to Cheryl’s. You can see how the branches connect making this one picture rather than two seperate windows.
The border is not cut yet so you can’t see how it will all line up. Below is a quick sketch to give you an idead of the unique border used on this project.
And that covers this week. We may have a new student next week so with a little luck we’ll see a butterfly on here then.