Chanticlee
& Nasrene MacDonald. This one was inspired by two sheets of heavy-textured glass that of course wouldn't break in any reasonable way. The first sheet was more or less ruined in our cutting efforts, so with the second sheet we decided to do some vandal art, you might say, and we just dropped a heavy bronze object very thoughtfully onto the sheet, producing BRILLIANT lines, if we do say so; we then blew off the dust, cut out some places for colored inserts, added a base, and called it what we decided it looked like: \"Chanticleer\" (crack-of-dawn allusion, you know). Nobody bought it, however, so we have donated it to a PBS station for their fund-raising auction. Philanthropy may not be profitable, but it keeps us busy. Besides, an ancient Chinese philosopher once said, \"All that is not given is lost.\"
Geode
& Nasrene MacDonald. This one, Geode, is also from scrap and odd pieces. It sold -- for a pretty penny! Moral for stained glass artists: Think INSIDE the box! (Scrap box, that is.) Cheers! And thanks as always for your great service and help at Glass Crafters!
Singularity
& Nasrene MacDonald. Hello, Glasscrafters Friends! Wanted to share with you a few of our off the wall pieces. This one is a potboiler we call Singularity (cosmic, eh?); as you might guess, it was constructed from pieces in our voluminous scrap boxes; well, somebody paid $500 (Canadian, that is) for it at a charity auction in Ottawa. We say that this represents a whole new school of stained glass art (pardon our French): Escrapment (accent on final syllable, nasal n, swallow the t, please).
American Girl
Attached is my new stained glass applique artwork, American Girl. It is my first attempt at impressionist stained glass portraiture (adapted from a 1901 photo). The Weldbond glue is still curing, and I'm toying with the idea of filling with complementary glass paints instead of grout, to avoid opaque lines in the face. Any thoughts from anyone? I'm plowing new ground!
Mountain Forms
& Nasrene McDonald. This is our custom commission rendering of a classic oil painting, Mountain Forms, by Lawren Harris, one of the famous Group of Seven artists who painted scenes in Canada and the U.S. The panel measures 28X28 inches
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