TRSB 23 Art 2

[grundyscribbling]

This is the second of my TRSB art pieces, a stained glass night light.





I am mostly happy with it, but in proper Noldorin fashion convinced it could have been better if I'd had the right tools. (I have a soldering iron with a temperature control box. I can find the iron. The control box is MIA. I do not much like the lesser soldering iron I have been forced by circumstances to work with.)

Comments

[rocky41_7]

Wow, this is so beautiful! Have you worked with glass for a long time? It's such an interesting art form! I love that blue shade you got on the star's background.

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!
I haven't been doing stained glass long - just took it up this year. (I already knew how to cut glass and how to solder, and those are key skills, so...) I've been glassblowing for several years.

[spiced_wine]

Oh wow, that’s amazing!

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!

[independence1776]

OOH! I love the colors.

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!

[sulien]

That turned out beautifully!

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!

[bunn]

That's lovely - and not an easy design, I imagine, with all those narrow points.

I have ancestors who ran a stained-glass-window shop, in London in the nineteeth century but I've never tried it myself.

[grundyscribbling]

Yes, it took some practice to cut accurately enough without the narrow bits cracking where they shouldn't. (It's also part of why I was so vexed with the lesser soldering iron. I think I could have done a neater job of it with better temperature control!)

A stained-glass-window shop? That sounds delightful!

[zdenka]

Wow, that's gorgeous! The colors look beautiful both in the dark and the sunlight. I like that it's a work of art as well as being functional -- that seems very Elvish!

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you! (It looks even better in person! I can't wait until the weather cools off and I can have it lit inside more often.)

[anerea]

Oh wow! Those colours! (And the transparent mother-of-pearl!) It's so neat, you've made this look like it was easy, but I imagine it's incredibly fiddly. Beautiful!

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!
It's a little bit fiddly, but not terribly difficult. (I did sacrifice a decent amount of plain glass practicing first so I wouldn't be wasting the good stuff.)