Sights from our walk to the inner harbour and downtown.
This one minute video demonstrates my technique for cutting a plate-glass mirror in a straight line. I am going to make a glass box and incorporate one of the sand dollars that I picked up at Parksville Beach into the box-top.
Comments on individual pics. I decided to frame in the white cockatoo. I did not want to lose the bird in a noisy background, so I chose a textured clear glass to be the fill pieces. Making this bird project into a circle or an oval or even a square picture would all work nicely, but I decided on a mostly vertical bird in a rectangle frame. I often use glue-chip glass to lent a soft texture to transparent glass as it is relatively inexpensive, and is usually very easy to work with. See picture comments for process details. Enough for today!
Foiling. Fitting. Fluxing. Soldering. Ooing. Aahing.
And planning the next steps. Details in the picture comments. I find black glass difficult to work with. For starters, white magic markers are not the easiest thing in the world to find! It is had for me to see precisely where the tip of the glass cutter is when I score the glass & even harder to see the scored line when I am done. This is important for knowing where to place pressure when trying to get the glass to break along the intended line.
More comments with the pictures. I have decided to try to document (photoment?) my stained glass creation processes.
Notes on individual pics. St Anne's Anglican Church was founded in Parksille in 1894, and this is the first time I stumbled across it. (Or the driving a car equivalent of stumbling - whatever that is!) I alwasy enjoy picturing log buildings from pioneer times, so I stopped for a wee walk around the grounds.
Lunch was at the no Goats on the Roof today Market in Coombs - always worth a stop. even when the goats are pastured. Low tide at Parksville beach is amazing because of how flt it is - tide goes out a LONG way. When it does there are always things - especially sand-dollars to amuse & amaze. |
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