Project in Progress: Koi

Finishing the Candle got me back into the groove, so I'm now well under way with my latest project. The Koi pattern will be a new challenge in a few ways. Not only does it use a bit of glass plating, but it also has a ton of foil overlay and leaded wire accents. I'll also drill a hole in the glass for one of the fish eyes, rather than just cutting and grinding solid shapes in all my previous work. Finally, there are some details created using bake-on paint.

So far, I have the hardest part mostly done, with the fish pieces cut, ground and painted. I'll need to do a lot more foil overlay on these pieces, but that should go fairly quickly.

Here is the image on the website where I bought the pattern, of the completed project. I think mine will look better! :) To be fair, it's always hard to capture the full effect of a stained glass project with a photo, anyway.

Been a while...but Project Complete: Medieval Candle

I completed this project a while back but was too lazy to update my blog! But here we go.

This picture shows the main 2 panels that I plated together. A tiny third piece went on the very back to give a shadow along the left edge of the open book.

And below, you can see the final product! As usual, a lot of the details and subtleties are lost in the picture, like the stacked page effect in the special glass I used for some of the pages, etc.