Sweet pea window

A quick update on the sweet pea window, all the glass is cut just a lot of leading to go. The original plan was for the background glass to be moderately tinted in three pastel shades, but it just took a bit too much away from the leaves, so I re-cut them in two shades of very lightly tinted glass and it looks perfect. The main impact of this window is the beautiful elegant shape of the green leaves and the delicate pink flowers; they now stand proud as originally intended. Terrible photo but you get the picture. 

I have been asked a lot of questions about designing stained glass work, I shall attempt to answer some of these in a couple of posts soon. 

Sweet Pea Window

This project has been a while in the preparation, there have been issues with the frame and I still don't have the complete measurements, if you look closely at the cartoon you will notice the edging pieces are not yet completely drawn. Had to get started thought to get it moving, the jobs are stacking up and some are on a time deadline. 

It is going to be a fusion of techniques, the house number and infill will be copper foiled to retain the very fine lines. It will be surrounded by a royal blue ellipse which will have a rope effect painted on then fired in the kiln and the whole panel will be leaded. It is going to be quite a long project for a relatively small window.