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I noticed your siggy picture and want to know if that is some of your own stained glass work? Is it a drawing for a future piece or does it already exist? And is a Ryask a type of griffin? Or something totally different? I’d really like to see the sun coming through it.
It is stunning!
laphon1 wrote:I noticed your siggy picture and want to know if that is some of your own stained glass work? Is it a drawing for a future piece or does it already exist? And is a Ryask a type of griffin? Or something totally different? I’d really like to see the sun coming through it.
It is stunning!
I agree!
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My signature picture is not an actual stained glass piece, but rather one I have planned. And I fully plan on rendering it in stained glass.
My main problem, is I don’t have the space. My specialty are huge, almost masochistically complex pieces that often take a year or more to create, and for that I need a reasonably sized workshop, especially if I intend on framing the piece (My Dad often does custom made wood frames for the larger pieces, because he is a wonderful wood-craftsman).
I am going to take commissions once I set situated in Oregon, as well as make some custom glass panels for the Windstone factory itself (Imagine an old warrior with each scale picked out rendered in glass!). Right now, all my glass supplies (along with my prized collection or rare and unique glass) is all stashed in my workshop in Redding. And I’m just going to leave it there until I leave for Oregon. No sense in hauling it south just to have to haul it north again.
Melody and I have batted the idea around of doing some collaboration glass pieces, and I know for a fact Arlla and Pam both want to learn the craft, so I’m not only going to be doing stained glass, but teaching it as well.
The ‘Ryask’ referred to in the picture is a gryphon. My gryphon, to be specific. That’s the critter my boyfriend uses to represent himself, much in the way I use that fangly wolf-horse stripey thing to represent me. He is also a stained glass craftsman, and we are working on a whole line of smaller pieces to sell in our (rare) free time. I’ll link you to his gallery yo you can see both his and my works:
My gallery:
http://buckskinmare.deviantart.com/Ryask’s Gallery:
http://ryaskgoldengryph.deviantart.com/That beautiful cedar chest you see he made for me. He is a horrendously talented craftsman himself. Check it out!
http://ryaskgoldengryph.deviantart.com/art/Cedar-Chest-74246355Me too! I’d like to learn how to do stained glass myself; if I offered you work/studio space would you come up to Idaho and teach me? Please?
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That cedar chest is gorgeous.
The complete drawing of the griffin and mare is out of this world. Beautiful.
All of your items look wonderful. If you ever do a unicorn version of the Celtic Horses, let me know I would probably order one.
Do let us know when you’re ready to start making stained glass again!!! Your pieces are awesome!!! 😀
Where would be a good place to start if one wanted to look up how to start doing stained glass?
Like what materials are best, how to cut the glass, that kind of stuff…
I took a class a looooong time ago. See if there is a glass shop near or sometimes community collages will offer courses. I would start at the library for books because they can be expensive. 🙂
Phoenix wrote:Where would be a good place to start if one wanted to look up how to start doing stained glass?
Like what materials are best, how to cut the glass, that kind of stuff…
Look for stained glass shops near you. That is the best place to get lessoning from. A community college course can be a bit iffy – usually they won’t have as wide a variety of tools and glass available to work with as a stained glass shop. A glass shop will typically have classes on-site for a price – or classes for glass fuzing, mosaics, glass beads… etc. The sort of stained glass I do is a slightly different style from typical glass. I use the Tiffany method (copper foil around each piece) instead of cane-work, which is how I get such fine solder lines on my glass.
Just a word of warning however… stained glass is not a cheap hobby. The glass can be very expensive depending upon the variety. I’ve paid up to $70 a square foot for some of my rarer glass. The dichroics are worse, sometimes as much as $7 a square inch. I think my entire setup at home (minus the labor involved in building the tables) cost around $500. But I knew exactly what I wanted, and where to get it.
For materials, all I can say is to find what you like you must sample, sample, sample. I have my favorite glasses, glass cutters, and grinder heads and such, but there’s a huge variety out there to choose from, *especially* in the glass.
So, taking a starter class is a good place to start. Just don’t be masochistic like me, and take on a 500 piece project as a first project!
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