Stained Glass Sundials

Looking for some web surfing during the sunny summer months, my pick is to explore stained glass sundials from ancient to modern times on this website: http://www.advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/

The "Image archive" documents historic examples and there is also a link to design and construction when you're ready to build one for yourself.

Nominations for Glass Magazine Awards

Glass Magazine is now accepting nominations for the 2013 Glass Magazine Awards: The People, Products and Projects. The prestigious glass and metal industry awards program recognizes the most innovative products and services the industry has to offer, in addition to the most innovative projects completed within the past year. It also names winners for Best Project Manager, Best Production Supervisor, Best Sales Rep and Best Installer. Submit your nominations at www.glassmagazine.com/2013awards. The deadline for nominations in all categories is April 16, 2013. If you have questions or require additional information, please contact Jenni Chase at jchase@glass.org.

What do Jackson Pollock and Mel Howse have in common?

Today I stumbled upon this film of Jackson Pollock painting on glass from the 1950's. Some of his tools look remarkably like the metal screens promoted by Bullseye for "painting with light" using glass frits.

My friend Mel Howse laid pasta and dried beans on glass before spraying it with silver stain in her large commission for Sainsbury's Supermarket CMK which I saw her fabricating at Derix Glasstudios.

Do the Work

I want to thank AGG member Nancy Gong for recommending the book, Do the Work by Steven Pressfield. I don't have a lot of time in my schedule to sit and read but I do listen to audio books all the time in the car and while painting in my studio. This book is short, straight forward and deals with issues creative people struggle with all the time. As soon as I finished it I thought of half a dozen people I wanted to send a copy to. On reflection I realized, like all advice it's better solicited than unsolicited. So look it up and see if you're in a place where you need this book.

Here's a review: http://mark-hayward.com/2011/04/24/steven-pressfield-do-the-work/
and another great link I'll be reading: http://thedominoproject.com/_/No_Idling_DTW_Workbook.pdf

1410 Photos found!

What do you get when photographers from all over the world are inspired by stained glass? I found the answer by searching "Stained Glass" at the photo sharing site 500px. It's well worth an hour of your time. Enjoy!

http://500px.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=stained+glass&type=photos&page=1&order=votes&license_type=-1

Nick Sayers

After falling down the rabbit hole doing a web search on sacred geometry and the platonic solids I stumbled upon the Flickr stream of the artist Nick Sayers. Enjoy this!
Read his story about:

Polyhedral Patcham Pupils

On 30 March 2012, I ran a maths-art workshop at Patcham House School, as part of their Maths Day.

In a one-hour workshop, children pinned 12 pre-made, machine-cut plastic silhouettes of themselves together with plastic cocktail sticks, to form polyhedral shapes with tetrahedral symmetry.

The pieces were created in advance. The children lay on a green screen and were photographed from the stairs above. I then took these images, processed them in Photoshop and turned them into cutting files.

They were cut by the very capable Mark at Brighton & Hove Plastics in Portslade.

More images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksayers/sets/72157629540305162/with/6969613482/

Photographers explore an abandoned church

The abandoned First German Reformed Church in the West End

"Venkman and I had just finished up an interview in the abandoned Hopple St. Subway tunnels for a Cincinnati Enquirer article. The sky was bright blue and the sun was shining on a cold, yet beautiful afternoon. "I kind of feel obligated to shoot photos today." I said to Venkman. The weather was too nice and with the holiday break from our respective schools, we had plenty of time on our hands. We agreed to set out in hopes of finding something new. Ironically, on the eve of a Catholic Holy Day of Obligation, we came across an abandoned church."
Read the post here: http://queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/2010/01/holy-day-of-obligation.html

VIDEO: The Effect of Color

Watch The Effect of Color | OFF BOOK on PBS. See more from Off Book.

Korean Pavilion for Shanghai Expo

From the Blog - Design Envy:

The overall volume, lifted 24 feet above ground level, is created by converging 20 basic letters of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, allowing signs to create the exhibition space, and so that the visitors can experience their geometry through horizontal, vertical and diagonal movements. The primary geometries that compose the Hangul letters are universal to other cultures, thus acting as a sort of open set of signs that is engaging to everyone.
http://designenvy.aiga.org/korean-pavilion-for-shanghai-expo-mass-studies/

Something Fishy: Glass mosaic

Mosaic glass votive seen on Pinterest originally from: http://www.mosaicartists.org

Perfectly Frightful

I found these at Custom Made a match making site for "Makers" and "Patrons"

http://www.custommade.com/by/TheGlassKats/

PODCAST: Developing Your Artist Statement

From the College Art Association website:

Developing Your Artist Statement
16:52, 15.4 MB

Your artist statement represents a vital line of communication between you and the rest of the world. Jackie Battenfield offers tips to help you write a concise and insightful statement about your work.

Jackie Battenfield is a painter, printmaker, and the author of The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love (Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2009). She teaches professional practices in the School of the Arts at Columbia University in New York and for the Creative Capital Foundation.

 Original context here: http://www.collegeart.org/podcasts/

Good hand lettering

Watch the video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/49556689

From the website description:
IF YOU WANNA SEE ALL THE PAGES AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE PROCESS VISIT
http://www.leandrosenna.com/72810/766869/work/bob-dylans-hand-lettering-experience

I´ve been thinking for a lot of time on doing a personal project where I could get out of the computer for a little bit, and have pleasure doing something handmade. Getting back to the basics.

Inspired by Bob Dylan´s Subterranean Homesick Blues video, where he flips cards with the lyrics as the song plays, I decided to recreate those cards with handmade type. I ended up doing all the lyrics, and not just some of the words, as Dylan did.

There are 66 cards done in one month during my spare time using only pencil, black tint pens and brushes. The challenge was not to use the computer, no retouching was allowed. Getting a letter wrong meant starting the page over.

I had a lot of fun doing this project, researching, practicing and getting deeper on typography.

There are some intentional misspellings and puns on the original song video, so I tried to keep that in a certain way.

You can watch the original movie here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfrjk6suAQ

Get in touch with some of my work visiting www.leandrosenna.com

Oscar & Lucinda from Looking at Glass

I love receiving updates from the Blog Looking at Glass. There is always an amazing image like the one about that sucks me right in. This entry is about the movie Oscar & Lucinda but really you need to read the original post here:http://lookingatglass.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/oscar-and-lucinda/

Sacred Art Pilgrim

Kohan's collage inspired by stained glass & mosaic

I stumbled upon this website while researching reverse glass painting. While there is no "stained glass" to be  seen here, site author John Kohan explores the Christian sacred art of many cultures, often trying his hand at working in those techniques. His writings about his journey is compelling. Here is some of the work Kohan has collected on his website: Sacred Art Pilgrim

Romanian reverse painted glass icon

Cuban graphic art

Mexican woodcut

"Bloom Skin": Video

Dancing window display. Mesmerizing.

Peter Swanson's film on Rowan LeCompt

Important Kickstarter Campaign

Filmmaker Peter Swanson is in the last stages of completing his important new film on the artist Rowan LeCompte and his last stained-glass window project for the National Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Washington, D.C.

Please support this Kick Starter Campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1187461527/let-there-be-light-0

If only it was this easy

Cleaning up after the holidays...

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