Artists in Stained Glass :: Essays Papers

Artists in dye glazeI.CONCRETE EXPERIENCEI think my interest in the combine of glass, light and color began as a child when I sight the colorful images created inside a kaleidoscope. Even as an adult, I cannot count to resist picking up a kaleidoscope and gazing into the viewer as I rotate the tube to c bent-grasse the design of the colored bits of glass. If you walk into my home, it is likely that I like to decorate with glass. I take on glass flowers, marbles, stones, vases, balls, roll and my favorite, dye glass.I have varnished glass windows, birds, flowers, night-lights, candle holders, turn in frames, and a jewelry box. I like to attend the various arts and craft festivals and shows in Tulsa so I can enjoy the stained glass art created by the local workmans. In November 1999, I went to the Stained Glass Guilds annual sale and purchased my first large append of stained glass. It was a beautiful blue, yellow, green and red floral piece. I had purc hased several(prenominal) smaller floral pieces in 1998 at Tulsas Arts and Craft spend Festival at Tulsa State Fairgrounds and I knew it would look beautiful border by the smaller pieces.I purchased my stained glass windows at the Haskell antiquated Auction in 2000. They were removed from a building in England and I like to think that they survived the bombings during World War II and now they hang inside my home. I would not say an exceptionally talented artisan created the windows but the pattern in the glass is unique. The colors sparkle and charter a certain charm to my kitchen and breakfast nook, especially on cool winter days.I recently remodeled my kitchen, breakfast nook and formal dine range. I installed new counters, wallpaper, border, artwork and flooring. In my spare time, I have been working with two friends to make a stained glass hushed life to hang between the doorway to the formal dining area and the kitchen, breakfast nook area. We made the patt ern from the wallpaper border, which depicts a fuddle bottle, cheese, basket of fruit and some flowers sitting on a counter. The piece has over 200 pieces of cut glass and we are about two-thirds finished.