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Stained Glass Art, Craft and Pricing

Stained Glass is about creativity that is on the hands and lastly don't take as
pure excitement, passion and yes fun long as say knitting. It's a great hobby
satisfaction. It happens when you least for retirement communities, home schooled
expect it for some it happens while children and aftercare programs. I've
staying at a cottage at the beach. The actually made stained glass panels with
salty air, seashells and interesting 10 children ages 9-13.
things lying on the beach spark Like a painter, I explore light, color
creativity. Stained Glass art and craft and texture. Like a sculptor, I create
is born every day in the souls of those pieces that are both 3-dimensional in
in need to make something. reality and also give the viewer a
Creativity equals satisfaction. 3-dimensional illusion; and they are
Creativity must be affordable and tactile - at a recent show, nearly
accessible to everyone. everyone who stopped to look at my
Stained glass art is a passion yet at the windows also touched them and felt the
same time a medium that people are drawn contours. Most people love glass, and are
in by its textures, light and infinite fascinated by its transparency or
colors. It is different from drawing, translucence, and the way it toys with
pottery, and other forms of art yet it light. Colors and textures float in it as
fuses all other mediums to come up with a though in free space, and shift with
new way of viewing our world. changes in the light source as though
Sadly, many people who attend craft shows alive.
think of stained glass as a decorative Most people love glass, and are
craft. Often I will tell an acquaintance fascinated by its transparency or
that I own a stained glass business and translucence, and the way it toys with
they automatically ask me if I could make light. Colors and textures float in it as
them a sun catcher, lampshade, or maybe a though in free space, and shift with
sidelight. Most people don't understand changes in the light source as though
the cost of glass, foil, came and solder, alive.
not to mention the patina and use of Stained glass is often called an
tools and time. architectural art form, because it is
Most who walk into Wal-Mart can find a usually a part of a building. However,
stained glass lamp for $20. The problem the work can serve two distinct functions
is that they probably purchased something within the architectural setting. Some
made in China and sadly made by someone work is architectural in design,
who earned pennies just so big Wal-Mart comprising abstract or geometrical
could profit off of slave wages. Another features that are continuous with or
concern is that due to a profit margin reflect lines and shapes in other
most who makes stained glass lamps or sun components of the building, or maybe
catchers must cut corners in the types of modify the look of the world beyond the
materials and the amount of materials window. It is part of the architect's try
they use. and creates a new place. The connection
It was mentioned recently by a stained that the window in the wall of the
glass artist in Roanoke, Virginia that building is not seen as a connection
they've been commissioned to fix stained between outside and inside, but as a
glass pieces made in China and noticed frame for art and the daylight is used to
that the pieces weren't properly bring the image to life.
soldered. It comes down to that you get Glass of different degrees of
what you pay for. transparency is used so objects or what
Another strong association for many of us is beyond the window may be visible
is religious art in church windows. These through it. They become part of the work
are all appealing and appropriate uses of - dynamic because they are subject to
stained glass, although lately I've different lighting conditions.
noticed churches in Roanoke using opaque Stained Glass is enjoyable for those to
glass as opposed to translucent. It's not look at its beauty, and miracle that the
a design just some pretty glass they everyday person can make. So go out and
thought they would hang. get some glass and make something you
It is exciting seeing contemporary don't have to hang on your refrigerator
stained glass art. Stained glass as a but in your window.
hobby is easy to learn, and it isn't hard See the world through light!




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