Small Works Project…..

Sheboygan Visual Artists: Small Works Project   I am going to make a 8″x10″ piece for this Project, once I am finished there will be pictures on my blog.  So keep checking back here……………     
 
  WHAT is the Small Works Project? As many as 300 panels provided for free by SVA, each 8″x10″ with a work of art upon it – painting, photography, fiber, jewelry, sculpture … even poetry or whatever.
  WHO creates these panels? Every SVA artist will create one or more canvases – but other non-SVA artists in the community and beyond may contribute a canvas. And students, seniors, celebrities, and
others can be “guest artists” by making a canvas. We will have workshops or classes to create more panels right at ArtWorks … and at other sites, like the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and area Senior Centers.
  WHERE will the panels be exhibited? At EBCO ArtWorks, over many months as the panels come in and join a mosaic of works. At every ArtWorks event, especially Final Fridays from January thru June, folks
will get to see the growing collection.
  WHAT happens to the canvases? On June 25th 2010, our Final Friday Event will be the big “Original Art for Everyone” Sale. We’ll sell the panels for $25 each – thus making it possible for nearly anyone to own a piece of original art. You might want to purchase one, perhaps as a gift, or suggest a purchase to your friends.
Actually, we won’t sell specific works – we’ll sell Claim Tickets. Each Claim Ticket will go into a hopper, and be drawn out to be matched randomly with one of the panels. Buy a claim ticket before May 15th 2010 for just $20.

“Art in the Parks” Program Our primary use of the proceeds from the art sale will be to send SVA artists into parks, playgrounds, and other public places this Summer to offer arts “workshops” for kids, teens, and adults.

 

Glassworks Studio closing…..

  Went to the big sale at Glassworks Studio, Sue will be sadly missed!  She is retiring and sold the building after alot of great years in the stained glass business.  I learned alot from her in various workshops I attended.  She was always supportive of some of my crazy ideas, whenever I stopped in she was always curious what I was concocting in my workshop, lol.  Sue will be missed by alot of people, she always had a very good selection of glass and supplies.  She was always there for a chat and assistance.  It was great to see what she too had on her workbench for a customers order, usually something pretty awesome!   As we said good-bye after my purchase, Sue gave me a hug, and said I was always a inspiration, on my creations, which I thought was such a compliment from a highly experienced glass artist.  Whoa! 
  Hats off to you Sue for all your inspiration to me!!!  Wishing you all the best on this new chapter on your new lifestyle and new home.          
  We’ll have to go out for lunch sometime…………

 

New Panel From the Workshop….

Just finished this small panel, which measures 9 3/4″ x 10″.  The Ivy glass tile in the center is a cast glass piece, and the small square corner pieces are chunky thick glass.  The strips were cut for this panel with…..what else?  But my latest tool in the workshop, but my circle/strip cutter,…    

 

SunFace Panel

This is for a customer, who requested the overall diameter to be about 8″.  This was the last of this type of glass in my stock, pictures do not do justice to the beauty of it!  The glass has such great firey sky colors!  It is transparent and translucent in rich oranges and yellows all at the same time. 
   All my glass in the workshop has been hand-picked, I strive to keep doing that.  Some of the bigger glass supply shops are quite a distance from where I live.  Requiring me to either make a day-trip of a shopping excursion, or even a mini-vacation.  Which I don’t object to beleive me!  LOL     

 

Christmas is over……

  Hope everyone had a nice Christmas.  Back to work tomorrow,….ugh.  Hey it pays the bills as they say.  At least only a 3-day work week coming up…..yeah!  Then enjoy another 4 days off with New Years coming up.
  Getting together with family today to celebrate Christmas, open gifts, and have some food.  Nice time to get together with family again.

 

Latest from my workshop

  Some new panels right off the work bench!  Just did these from strips of glass cut with my newest tool in the workshop…..a ‘circle/strip cutter’.  What fun to just zip-zip-zip cutting uniform pieces of glass!  The small panel done with greens, ambers, and yellows is approx. 6″ x 11″, also a few glass globs, and 1″ square bevels. 
  The larger piece is 20″ x 16″ done with various types and textures of clear and blue glass, there is also some clear 2″square bevels, 2 zipper bevels, 1″ square nuggets in this panel.  This was so much fun!  I just picked pieces of glass at random until this zinc channel frame was filled.  I will try to get a better picture to show the various clear glass patterns and textures, and re-post yet another picture.  Seeing this piece for real is awesome…….if I must say so myself!   LOL     
  I see a serious future for this valuable tool in the workshop!  What fun to sit down at the work bench and have no pattern on what you’re going to do, I had in the back of my mind what I wanted to do, so this is the end results!  Hope you enjoy it, and yes these are for sale.

 

Back in the Workshop…

  I just completed a sunface panel for a customer order, so that will be getting sent out shortly to England, my dear husbands homeland.   

  I also finished a larger panel with mostly all different clear textures/patterns of clear glass, some blues mixed in along with a few various bevels of different sizes.  Everything was done in ’strips’ of glass.  Had to use my newest tool in the workshop….. circle/strip cutter.  Cutting strips in 3/4″, 1″, and 2″ widths, varying the lengths, and placing them at random within the 20″x 16″ zinc channel frame.    It turned out to be quite an interesting piece!…..if I must say so myself,….lol.  It keeps you looking at it because there is so much going on in it.  Now if we’d only get some great sunlight again, to really show off and appreciate all of what the glass has to offer!   
  Will try to get some pictures posted on here soon,…….keep checking!
                                                    

 

Got letter from Art Center

  And unfortunately the news wasn’t what I had hoped for…..my pieces I entered were both denied.       I had talked to a few other people I know who also entered pieces in this upcoming exhibition, they had also entered pieces in past exhibitions and always were accepted.  Not this time, sad news for everyone I’ve talked to, no one has gotten anything accepted!  This is also the first time they had ever juried on solely  photos of artworks, instead of seeing the actual pieces people are entering.  Stained glass is very difficult to capture the true color and beauty thru this means. 
  We are all curious as to ‘what’ is going to be in this exhibition come January,…..it’ll be interesting.  

 

computer crashed!

Oh No!  Just what everyone dreads, our main computer crashed.  Luckily enough my husband has a laptop I am able to use, for some basic things but we’re going to have to try and retrieve email addresses, and loads of other things off the wounded computer.  Haven’t even started to try and tackle what could be wrong.  So at this point we’re not sure just how critcal this is.      
If anyone needs to email me please go ahead and use the following address for now,…….    rubyt2u@sbcglobal.net      Thanks.

 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Whatever you are doing for Thanksgiving Shards and Light wishes you and your friends/family a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving.  
My turkey just went into the oven, ’she’ (because the label said it was a hen) was 9.1 lbs.  There will be 4 of us for dinner with all the fixins’.  Of course we had to schedule around our meal time due to a Packers game on!  lol