This photograph really does this window no justice at all. For starters, I did not patina the lead, instead I left it the bright silver color it comes as. But, because of the lighting, it looks black in the picture. Maybe someday I'll get a nice photograph of it. This piece took me a while, and was mostly experimental. My favorite panel has got to be the two dogs for which I used silk screening and enamel paints on clear glass. I also like the writing bit, where I got to use a calligraphy pen with the lead paint. All in all its a very different window from my first big project, which I still need to get a photograph of. The subject Finn MaCool, a famous Irish hero. Also featured are his hunting dogs, Bran and Sceoling. We also see Fintan, the salmon of knowledge, and his mother and a female warrior who helped raise him.

I'm going to camp next Monday and I don't know how that's going to affect this blog, but I hope to be able to at least update every now and then. I'll be bringing my laptop with me up there because the director had mentioned me teaching digital photography and I wont be in a bunk, so it shouldn't be too hard for me to do. Also, that means I can keep writing: something I find myself doing more and more of recently. Anyway, the link for the evening is a good one. I found it while wandering the internet and I watched it twice in a row. It's 10 Things I Hate About Commandments and it's pretty self-explanatory. All I can say is that putting Samuel L. Jackson in there was an inspired decision. One might even say divine.
Finn MaCool stained glass with lead and enamel paint, lead (c) 2006

Well I wish I could have had a lovely entry for the infamous 6-6-06 but I was away and who really cares, anyway? The significance of man-made time sometimes tricks me in to thinking certain numeral dates have significance purely because of the combined values they make up, and then I remember it's all BS. Besides, the world still exists so we're all ok.

The image above is titled Animus and if you're familiar with Jung or Estes you'll know what that is. For those of you who can't be bothered (or simply don't have the time) to indulge in philosophical works an animus is the interior male force inside of women. Men have a similar force that is feminine and called an anima. Apparently, these subconscious personalities project ideals of our male or female counterpart on to whomever we seek out as a mate. The idea here is that they embody all archetypes of the male or female and that, without management, a person can subconsciously expect their significant other to fulfill these completely unrealistic ideals. Pretty interesting stuff.
Animus Gouache 11" x 16" (c) 2006

Well, at least I got a decent photograph of this piece, but it wasn't easy. I had to angle to flash funny because the black ink is shiny and I didn't want any big white spots on the piece there or on the gold leaf. Also, the photoshopping took longer than normal and the color is just a tiny bit off but overall pretty good for having to use a camera.

The piece is supposed to look like an illumination from a manuscript, at some later date (can't say when really, ,maybe never) I intend to incorporate it for a dec letter, or at lease use the design to create a dec letter. But for now, you get this.

And here's your link for the evening. This is perhaps the funniest and most polite way to show the world how much you hate something: a website with effecient powerpoint slides. Unfortunately it doesn't work on Mozilla browsers, for some mysterious reason. Now, I'm off to go discuss literature with Margo.
Angel 11" x 8.5" Gouache, papyrus, gold leaf, india ink (c) 2006

I know, I know, it's freaking blury. That bugs the hell out of me but that's part of the wonderful joy of taking photographs of art instead of using the scanner *glares at the offending electronic*
Anyways. Here's a a recent piece done for the hell of it.

Let's see...a link. Ah, here we go. A site I found this same day. It's a very cool site covering the fairytale of Vasalisa. Someone, apparently, did it for their MFA and left the site up. It's very well done and the images and text-work are pretty good. Not great, but deffinately good and an impressive overall piece. Enjoy.
La Que Sabe 11" x 16" Gouache.

Alright everyone, so the deal is: my scanner is dying. Or at least it's trying to. I scan something in and all I get is stripes, so until I get it fixed you'll have to deal with photographs of artwork. This is something I had hoped to not have to do for anything other than glasswork, but unless I want to keep not updating I have to.

So for now here's a glass piece I did from last semester. You may find it resembles some of my other self-portraits and theres a reason for that, they're all a series and this is, for now, the last in that series. I love this window and am very satisfied with how it turned out, it was well recieved at my reveiw board too.
Self-Portrait 16.5" x 12" stained glass, fused glass, lead paint and lead