The 21st Century Begins…
Its pretty obvious from many of the crafts here on my blog that I love Disney. More specifically, I love Epcot, in Walt Disney World, and most specifically, I love anything retro or vintage “Epcot Center” (as it was called pre-1994). I love the colors and simplistic designs used in many of their advertisements, merchandise and logos from that time period. I especially love one of the early logos for Epcot- the 5 rings that interconnect to make a circle, with the rainbow stripes jetting out from the sides of it.
For my second stained glass piece, I payed homage to the “original” Epcot and its earliest logo with this 9″x12″ inch piece.
I used all transparent (or semi-transparent) glass on this piece- here it is with the sunlight streaming through it.
And a side shot to show some of the textured glass that was used.
Tiki Man Stained Glass
Last week I wrote about my Stained Glass Work in Progress. It’s no longer a “WIP” – now it’s just a finished piece!
Channeling Frank Lloyd Wright
Today I broke out my acrylics and a few canvasses and painted the morning away. It’s no secret that I love the mid-century modern look, so designing this was fairly simple- I just imagined what kind of home I’d want to live in. (And then when I got done, my dad (an architect) told me that the first house design is “not up to code”…. whatever…I still like it!).
I call it “Channeling Frank Lloyd Wright” and it is acrylic on a 6×18 inch canvas.
Close up of the top panel (my favorite)
Middle panel (my dream living room….)
Bottom panel
I used this as my picture of the day on my 365 Blog– I love my Mickey palette!
Stained Glass WIP
Belive it or not, I’ve never done stained glass before (shocker- I know- considering there is rarely a craft I haven’t tackled). I’m fairly proficient at fused glass, and stained glass is only a short jump away….but there are so many more steps involved in stained glass. It’s not just something I can pick up on my own.
So, a few weeks ago when an old college friend of mine called to tell me that he was teaching a stained glass class at a local artists guild, I jumped right on board. I talked another friend of mine into joining the class with me, and now we both really look forward to our Thursday night ladies night out.
I’ve done two smaller sample pieces up to now, just so I could get a feel for the solder, copper foil, and the soldering gun, but now I’m working on my first “real” piece.
My first piece is a tiki man peeking out behind some tropical leaves. Here’s my sketch for my design-
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It took me about 15 hours of cutting and grinding to get all the pieces to fit- here it is as soon as I fit the last piece into the “puzzle” (it’s all dirty from the grinder and covered with sharpie markings– but I was proud nonetheless!)
I gave all the pieces a bath (and washed off their numbers….which made putting the pieces back together that much harder!)
Squeaky clean!
Wrapping each piece with copper foil is just slightly less time-consuming than the actual cutting and grinding…
All foiled and ready to solder!
Here I am soldering
Here’s a picture of my friend diligently soldering her piece
She finished hers tonight~
Check back next week to see the finished product!
I’m linking up to the Clip Cafe’s My Wonderful WIP but I can’t figure out how to get the button on here! So follow the link to see what others are working on!
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