More Finished Projects
We have two finished projects this week so we’ll start with one of them. Cheryl’s latest LSU window looks better than ever now that it’s completed. After carefully considering what color border to use she decided on the same purple that was used in the background of the LSU section. We played around with a white and yellow border but in the end the purple was by far the best choice as you can see below. This is one of the best windows that Cheryl had made yet and everything about it went together perfectly. Great job, Cheryl!
Cheryl also started working on a large (24×24) hot air balloon window that is sure to turn out very colorful. She has the bottom section of one balloon cut out and ground already and it looks great.
Meanwhile, Joey was patiently soldering away on the front of his address window. Once the front was finished he moved on to the back side. I don’t think it will be long before this window is finished and hanging in the front of their house. The only thing left to ‘address’ is how to hang it, but I’m sure we’ll manage one way or another. Here’s a look at the front of the window all cleaned up and looking good if I do say so myself.
Gerald came in and went to work on wrapping all the background pieces for his Rooster Window. After they were wrapped and tacked into place he added a thin green border to it and some brass channel for good measure. All that’s left now is to get it soldered which shouldn’t take that much longer. I love the chicken wire background to this…
Mark began grinding the bottom left hand corner of his window that he’d finished cutting out 2 weeks ago. The pace is slow and steady but he actually got about a quarter of the window ground which is nothing to sneeze at since there are so many pieces in this pattern. You can’t see much in the picture below with the pieces of this window pushed aside to make room for the ground pieces so make sure you click on the closeup to see the detail that Mark has in this. It’s fitting together perfectly!
Ellen began working on her new project: a Wrought Iron stylized window made in clears with deep cobalt blue accent pieces. I forgot to snap a picture of the window so I drew up a quick sketch of what it looks like from memory. She’s moving along quickly on this one because she has it all cut out already save for the border pieces. Look to see an actual picture of this next week.
Fran was busy grinding away all throughout class today and almost finished all of her Rooster. The only thing left to grind is the head (as you can see from the picture below) and it’s fitting together very nicely. It looks like we’ll be seeing this finished in the very near future (my guess is about 2 weeks from now). I like the colors in this window as much as I liked the colors that Joey chose for his. It’s hard to play favorites when they look this good!
Lastly, we have our 2nd finished project of the week. It’s Christine’s Magnolia window that she did from an original painting that she had done. Christine hasn’t soldered anything in about a year now so I warned her not to worry if it didn’t come out perfectly on the first pass, but after she did a few lines she got the hang of it and finished the front side in a little over an hour or so. I figured that she’d finish the window next week but then she got all the border soldered on the back side which was much farther along then I ever would have guessed she’d get to in one night. Rather than putting off getting this window finished for another week, I finished the border for her and then washed and colored it the next morning. I have to admit that I wanted to see it get finished in the day time rather than during her night class because the picture always comes out looking much better when you have sunlight behind it rather than a florescent light. Christine did a really good job on this window and we hope to see her do more glass work in the future.
And that about wraps things up this week!
