Above and Below

One of my first painted pieces. Getting the hang of vitreous paints applied with a tracing brush.

Dunny

My 4-eyed gold mirror glass version of the ever-so-popular vinyl toy.

It’s there in the back

It’s there to the right, in the back. The panel in the front is NOT mine.

Nocturne

A few years ago I was pressured by a good friend to submit a window for the National SGAA Convention window competition. After balking and more balking, the offer of free glass and shipping made it hard to say no. The contest had a theme— "Light", and beyond stipulating the finished size, each contestant was sent a box of cast glass pieces that were required to be included in the panel. As these things go, I imagined that all of the participants got the same pieces, thus leveling the playing field. Mine was a very bland set of roundels and square-cast pieces. After seeing the winning pieces it was obvious that others had received different and in some cases, outstanding pieces of glass to incorporate. I never received any confirmation receipt of the piece nor notification of winners. Just the same box I shipped it in returned without a note, etc. Upon seeing the subsequent issue of the SGAA journal I saw my panel in the background of a photo so I at least know it made it. My friend Pam told me some of her fondest memories of her dad was when he would catch fireflies in a jar for her. I gave her the window.

Patron St. of Surfing progress

This gives you a feel of my typical work style. Just a few sketched lines and then I start cutting pieces into place. It takes accumulating the right pieces to get an idea rolling. I had a great piece of Blenco that looked like an old surfboard and once I acquired the Jesus head and a beautiful German Nimbus (halo), I split the praying hands and everything fell into place.

Patron St. of Surfing

Another window built almost entirely of salvaged scrap glass right down to the acid-etched Maltese Cross. What would Jesus do? He’d ride waves all day, every day, of course.

My bad

OK, I seriously dropped off the face of the earth with this blog. I apologize to all and am making a promise to myself to at least post something weekly. As I am in between glass projects and working for a living, here’s a few windows that I haven’t put on the blog yet.