The Eye Design

I had a dream a few weeks ago about a stained glass window that I created that had an eyeball in the center.  When I woke up the next morning, I keep thinking about the piece and did a rough drawing on paper.

I began in earnest to draw out the piece I saw in my dream and have now done so...the pattern is full scale and all I need to now is buy the glass.  I hope to be able to complete this project in the next few months but there are still tons I need to learn.  For example, I want to add metal (I assume copper sheet) as the eyelid and also would like to add eyelashes cut from same metal and turned black with Patina.  Here is a picture of the eye window drawn out.  The center will NOT have the recycle logo but will instead be completely black.

Next small project...

Here is the pinwheel I just cut out.

Final Beginners Class Report

I had the 3rd and final beginners class last night.  We worked on completing our projects by soldering.  OK...I know how to solder as I have some experience doing electronic soldering...NOT EVEN CLOSE to being the same!

I futzed around with trying to get the solder lines perfect but of course they will never be perfect.  I finally called it and put the zinc border on which I am still not happy with the way that looks either.  But after spending some time looking closely at the pieces hanging in the glass studio, those solder line are not perfect either and some of the pieces have straight edged zinc borders not even mitered which I did do. 

Practice is what I need so I will mess with my project a bit more at home until I am happy with it and the next piece I will do some practice BEFORE I start to solder. 

Anyway, I love the look of the piece and plan on doing a black patina on the lead lines and the zinc.  I will post a completed picture of it and will probably keep the first piece as a measure of my humble beginnings.