Totem Outpost

I took a class in stained glass making and, after six, weeks, this is what I left with.  The pattern is called something like "Desert Sunrise" but because the class was held in a woodland region abound with lakes, many people, including myself, substituted the desert floor with an acquatic-looking piece of glass.

I used an amber-colored relief glass for the mountains.  My instructor had to cut those pieces for me because scoring glass which is not flat is a rather advanced technique.  The next two panels are meant to be more slate-like mountains.  The original patterns had the top four panels as all the same type of glass but I felt that it gave the sky an over-domineering quality.  My original two pieces for the top were more pastel blue-purple but I had a glass scoring mishap and had to swap them out for these rosy ones.  The sun, in the middle, is muted purple glass with a wavy pattern inside.

After scoring, grinding, foiling and soldering the pieces together, I twisted stretched and twisted a piece of lead came with my instructor.  Then we soldered it to the outside edges of the stained glass piece to give it added structure, as the bottom semi-circle is quite a heavy section of glass and ended up a tad wobbly during the soldering process.