Saturday, July 6, 2019

Catch You Up With the Window


Christ is dark enough and is ready for color, to cheeks and lips.



The older boy and youngest girl faces are also ready for color.



The cutting and fitting of garments have begun.


He appears dark flat on the table.  The robe is a beautiful regal blue, white gown.
Continuing with the older boy.

Thank you for following along.


Friday, July 5, 2019

Finishing QT k-9 portrait in Glass


All of this is stained, ‘painted’ in other words, with crushed and powdered glass.  Not traditional paints.  They are permanently fused into the clear glass canvas with high temperatures of the kiln.

The very center, where QT lays is one panel.  The other pieces will frame it and this project will hang in a window.


All the other pieces are cut and in place ready to foil and solder.


Ready to frame.


Completed and ready to mail!
All I need is your picture and either a box or panel can be created for your collection or for a special gift.
Contact me:  mshemeral@midstatesd.net 


Thursday, July 4, 2019

Finishing the Special Couple Box





In the last post about the Special Couple box we had not added any of the blue colors .  Once the blue was added, it took about 3 firings in the kiln to get the colors deep enough to my liking.
The blues were the last colors to add.

On to building the box itself.


Originally I thought I would use clear bevels but, the very clear did not appeal to me and I changed over to this milky white.  Which has a bit of translucent qualities that will illuminate the lid nicely yet offer the contents a bit of privacy.


This box being a bit larger than most are that I work up, deserved a box on box lid.  Meaning each, lid and bottom, are boxes but fit onto each other.
At this point the lid might have a hinge added but, due to the weight of this project I tried a lift off lid.
I added posts inside to keep the lid from sliding off.
Genius right!

The post is in the corner.

The edges are sculpted to add visual and tactile texture.
Then it has acid washed and I color the copper in my signature blend and polish and we are done!