The Adventure Begins!

I have taken up doing painted stained glass and this blog will document my little adventure with this process. I have always been an artist and I really gravitate towards the decorative arts. I did stained glass back in my early 20s, using copper foil. I think I only have one small piece left from that time period, but I did a lot of beachy things, including a life-size self-portrait that was stolen from a storage unit I had it in. The original sketch survives though ...

I used a real sea shell for where I'm holding the shell.

I didn't do anything more with stained glass until we built our studio apartment over the garage.

For this project, I used my glass cutting abilities (ha ha) and learned how to do leading to create colored glass panels for the salvage casement windows.

So now here I am taking up stained glass again.  This time with glass paints and a kiln!  Here is my first test piece done on a broken piece of clear glass.

It is a Christopher Dresser design and it was fun to do!

A picture of my kiln - it is a Skutt kiln.

And Miss Pandora - the curious cat.  I keep her away from the toxic paint.