so cool

Thanks!

your welcome

Great work. Faved. BTW, Do you make the galss from scratch?

Thank you very much! The glass I buy but the disign is mine. I prefer to design my own pieces rather than use a pattern from a book.

Rad. :D

Interesting piece and choice of medium. Uncommon, or at least I haven't seen many stained glass works lately..

Do you use lead framing for glassworking or have they substituted another material with the recent trend of lead reduction?

This particular piece has lead-free solder but the came (the "framing") is Brass covered lead I believe. I haven't used leaded solder yet but it is supposed to be easier to use since it has a lower melting temp. Less chance of cracking the glass due to heat from the soldering iron.

Oh beautiful stained glass work!!

:o awesome!!!

Very interesting and original!

Oh wow I LOVE stained glass. It's beautiful! D:

Oh, this is just amazing!! Now I really, really want to try something like this.. hrm.. How much would you say it costs, and what sorts of supplies would you say I'd need to get started ..?

I like all things stained glass... :)

Glad you have enjoyed this. :)

Faved simply because it's stained glass and stained glass is awesome!

Thanks!

oooh, my mom used to do stained glass, and all her old tools are still in the basement.

I've always wanted to do stained glass, though, I've never really found the motivation...

there's a house in my neighbourhood that used to have stained glass windows, but I think they've moved away and the windows have since been replaced :/

anyway, I used to have this small decal on my bedroom window when I was little of a unicorn in a stained glass sorta style, but since my favourite mythical creature since I was about 3 were dragons, I always thought it'd be cool to someday make a stained glass window of a dragon XD

well, I see you've done that, so I congratulate you for doing what I have not!

it's very well done too!

Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
I never really thought much about stained glass until college. Once I took the course I couldn't get enough of it. Hence the pics. My hubby and I are now starting to produce new pieces. Mostly just little sun catchers at this time.

Wwwwwwwwow. :) I've never wanted a stained glass piece until just now. It would look so good in the light....

Very pretty. ^^ I love the flow and the overall feel of this.

that's awesome! :O How do you do stained glass pictures? I never knew how something like that might be done, I soooo love church windows with stained glass!

The best way to learn stained glass is to find somewhere that offers a beginners class. Or...there are several books that have instructions for basic stained glass techniques. Church windows are amazing! The original style of stained glass was much different than most of todays. They did much more painting of images on colored glass and only had a few colors of glass from which to choose. Interesting stuff! Thanks for the comment.

I love churches but hence I live in Germany - I don't see a lot of old windows around - most churches were chatteed during WWII. I visited England for a week back in September 07 and was so utterly impressed by all the old churches and their windows!
Great stuff!

This turned out great!

Quite the wonderful piece. Nice choice of subjects... but I have to admith that I may be a bit biased. I am curious...exactly how big are the dimensions.

It's about 1 3/4 feet high x about 2 1/2 feet long. Silly me forgot to post the dimensions.

Thanks for the update on that. I have seen stained glass works being sold at various street fairs and Renfaires. I am sure you would do well there.

omg it. Your stained glass pieces inspire me.

Do you use carbon paper in your development process?

Your pieces bring back great memories. I was fortunate to be taught by a friend when I interned at a National Park. I made two pieces and never thought to post them on FA.

I would luv to find a place to make some or take a course.

I don't use carbon paper currently though I did learn how to use it in college. I might have used it for this piece but I honestly don't remember. If you go back in my gallery I have a step-by-step of my process currently (the pegasus suncatcher).

We have our "studio" space in the apartment but it would be wonderful for the glass to have it's own room. Some day when we have our own home I suppose.

OMG this is amazing..very beautiful

Thank you so much. :)