Living Glass Art

Of all the swallowtail butterflies that call the state of Tennessee home, this one has eluded me for the past 10 years that I've taken a...

Yesterday afternoon, I took a break from working in the shop to enjoy a few minutes on the front porch. Something small caught my eye makin...

Well, we're at the last step and almost done! Just one thing and that's to paint in the eyes. I use a gloss black enamel paint for...

In order to darken the lines of this cat, I'm using black patina. Patina is a chemical mixture that reacts with certain metals and give...

Whew, only a couple of more steps to go! The next thing we are going to do with this black kitty is to wrap it up with lead came. Lead cam...

We're ready to solder the black kitty together. Here we have everything we need for this step. Clockwise from the top-liquid flux, tem...

In the copper foil, or Tiffany method of working in stained glass, every glass piece is wrapped with self adhesive copper foil. Copper foil...