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The glory of springtime when one drives our Alberta country side and the joy of seeing a mare with a new born foal. We made this suncatcher many years ago for year round enjoyment.
Designed by Nancy Pimental – Great Woods Glass Art, Norton, MA
This is a free pattern design available from Spectrum Glass Company
It will soon be Easter and in our troubled world it’s time for angels, lots of stained glass angels to enjoy year round.
Over the years we have made many different angels in many sizes, here is our Easter Calla Lily Flower Angel.
Design by Suzanne Cooper
We have a client who is an awesome intarsia woodworker. He designed this eagle in wood and wanted to have it transformed into stained glass. In addition he and his wife wanted 2 of them each facing each other for their retreat in the West Country towards the Rocky Mountains in Central Alberta.
To facilitate this endeavour we enlisted the services of Paned Expressions Studios in Edgewood Maryland. Martha was quickly able to take the intarsia design pattern from our clients and add in the necessary lines to complete a 20 x 20 inch panel. Then using Glass Eye 2000 she reflected the design so as to have another identical design pattern.
This is the left side eagle and eventually we will display the remaining right side eagle with more pictures and details. Enjoy the first Eagle has landed.
Stained Glass Panel Design by Paned Expressions Studio
From an Intarsia Wood design supplied by our client
This is the 2nd of 3 interior transom windows for a beautiful farm home SW of Olds Alberta. The window measures 36 inches wide by 12 inches high. Surrounding the bevel cluster is matching Spectrum’s Sky Blue Wispy with a clear Spectrum Artique border. Our clients were very pleased with this great looking interior transom window.
We designed this window and after centering the bevel cluster we made a border with Spectrum’s clear Artique Glass.
The next series of 3 pictures shows how we laid out Spectrum’s Sky Blue Wispy Glass. We were fortunate enough to obtain 2 sheets of this glass that we were able to match across the whole width of the window. This first picture shows the left hand side.
This next photo shows the centre portion surrounding the bevel cluster.
As we fitted each piece we had to make sure that the matching continued across the window.
After the panel was soldered and cleaned, we then applied black patina to the solder lines, then cleaned once again with Kwik Clean, and then applied polish. After much polishing one can see the wonders of light that are seen through bevels.
Design by Flory & Bob Wilkins
Island Lake in glorious sunshine, please do a search for Island Lake and see it’s construction from a photo to the finished panel.
Design by Paned Expressions Studios