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Stained glass gallery - Be sure to look at
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This is a stained glass collection of glass pieces I have made.
Each of these pieces have made their way into the homes of family, friends or clients.
STAINED GLASS Tips and tutorial.
How to copper foil the stained glass butterflies in these two stained glass pieces I built.
The butterflies were done with a foiling technique that I picked up from another stained glass artist.
The method requires you to make a butterfly pattern template out of stiff paper.
Cut it out to create a stencil.
This method requires you use sheets of copper foil instead of the rolls of foil.
First you cut out and prepare the yellow piece of glass for the butterfly body.
Next, stick the sheet of copper foil to the yellow butterfly body and trim off excess being sure to wrap edges both front and back to the shape of the body.
Stick a second piece and to the same to the opposite side of the glass.
You now have a butterfly body that is completely copper foiled on both front and back.
Use your fid to press down and make the copper foil air tight.
Next use scotch tape to lightly secure the butterfly stencil onto the copper foiled piece. Just put bits of tape on the edges.
Now using an exacto knife very carefully cut out the stencil patterns creating the detailed butterfly wings.
(Two stencils are necessary, one for each side of the butterfly).
Although time consuming it was an imaginative and creative way to do so much detailed copper foiling and soldering on this little butterfly.
The one stained glass piece also has the 3 individual butterflies setting down on it. I built the little butterflies, then soldered them onto the finished (and cleaned) stained glass piece.
(It was easier to clean the main piece, then only make a small mess soldering and cleaning up the little butterflies on the finished piece)
The wheat panel is made using beveled glass wheat which I purchased from my stained glass art supply store. I fashioned this piece after one I had seen in a pattern book.
This stained glass harvest moon and wheat became a cupboard door.
Although I did not design the patterns of the fierce dragon or fairy, I was requested to make these glass pieces for some special people I know that just loved and wanted these pattern designs.
The were-wolf was a pattern I fashioned off a drawing I'd seen. I have a family member that really likes were-wolfs and asked me to make this stained glass piece.
I used a technique (similar to the butterfly process) adding bits of copper foil, shaped like claws to the glass to achieve the pointy claws on the wolf.
A lot of this detail was also achieved by using a very tiny grinding head to grind out large portions of the areas that became claws.
The uroboros glass that created the moon gave the piece a fantastic effect.
Choosing the right glass is really important if you want to create a certain look to your stained glass piece.
If you click on the gallery photo it will enlarge it so you can better see the detail in the work. |
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