Creating "Spirit in the Sky"

The process for creating the glass and watercolor painting

SPIRIT IN THE SKY

IT STARTS WITH THE DRAWING...

THE COLORS ARE FILLED IN....

 THE GLASS IS CUT TO MATCH THE DRAWING

THE FIGURES ARE CAREFULLY LAID OUT ON THE KILN SHELF

 THE FIGURES GO INTO THE KILN TO BE FIRED TO 1400 DEGREES F.

THE PAPER AND BOARD ARE PREPARED FOR PAINTING

THE PAINTING IS DONE WITH WATERCOLORS.

 THE FIGURES ARE LAID OUT ON THE PAINTING WITH THE MAT BOARD AND GLUED DOWN.

JUST SEEING HOW THE BLACK FRAME LOOKS BEFORE THE FINAL FRAMING

THE FACES AND DETAILS ARE PAINTED ONTO THE GLASS WITH AN ENAMEL BLACK PAINT

THE FINAL PIECE. 12" WIDE BY 22" LENGTH

THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE 
prints of all glass & paper works coming soon! 

New Art Fair Booth *** Paintings AND Jewelry

My booth at Athfest 2012

Athfest 2012, glass painting and jewelry

Top of jewelry case.

Showing the Mondrian Collection

Showing HEARTS

Corner of jewelry case, showing Space Ball posts

Jewelry under glass

Two Tones

Showing Romeo and Juliet glass paintings

Back wall of glass paintings (all my big paintings are at the White Tiger show)

Virtual Gallery of First Solo Show of Glass Paintings @ White Tiger

WELCOME 

to the virtual showing of my

First solo show of glass paintings at White Tiger Gourmet 

in Athens, GA 

from June 8th, 2012 to July 1st, 2012

A small and friendly neighborhood eatery, the White Tiger, has given me the opportunity to show my new mixed media wall work. Here's a few shots of the interior of the place. According to my 79 yr old neighbor Gene, it used to be a grocery store and he delivered groceries when he was 16!

This is Jayse Jones. He arranged this for me and he is a wonderful guy! Many thanks to the owner Ken Manring as well for allowing me to hang my work in his restaurant.

 

Now.... let's see the show!

All work is framed and under glass.

All work is for sale. Please email me for a price list.

Mr. Electrico 18" x 22"

 

detail of Mr. Eletrico, the blue stripes are painted beneath the aqua glass

Judy Jo  12" x 22"

detail of Judy Jo

Play Ball! 18" x 22"

detail of Play Ball! (the kid has braces)

Stripes are made from gold on black dichroic, clear red dichroic and transparent orange glass strips I cut and laid over an opaque piece of red glass.

The striped sleeve and white opaque glass baseball in the mitt.

The next 8 pieces are grouped together.

Candy Faced Love 8" x 8"

Ignatius J. Reilly 8" x 8"

Hansel's Place 7" x 5"

Celery Guy 8" x 10"

Hot Stuff 8" x 10"

Carrot Kid 5" x 7"

Claude 5" x 7"

Mr. Robbins 8" x 10"

 

The "house" series... plus the special portrait....

Sugar Shack 14" x 11"

Turquoise Chalet 11' x 14"

detail of Turquoise Chalet... the roof is transparent to show the painting underneath.

Blanco Terra 11" x 14"

detail of Blanco Terra, the roof is small squares of lavendar transparent glass.

 and the cut above ... the "show piece"... 

the very special portrait....

The White Tiger 12" x 22"

detail of The White Tiger, the front entrance with picnic tables

the white picket fence with glass

the outside dining area with picnic tables

the building is made with white opaque glass underneath and a ridged clear glass fused on the top of that

 then comes the three head shots...

Nigel 11' x 14"

detail of Nigel, his eye is drawn underneath the glass on the paper

Suzie 11" x 14"

detail of Suzie, the eyes are cut from a gold colored "dichroic" paper

Frederick 11" x 14"

detail of Frederick, the eye and teeth are drawn on the paper underneath

...and the final piece in the show... one of my favorites...

Downtown Joe Brown 18" x 22"

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