Cha... cha... cha... changes

Sometimes we change our minds. After I blogged about this project on March 25, my clients ask if I could redesign these two windows to look like feathers falling through the air. What’s most important to me about a custom piece is that my clients love it and look at it every day and feel glad they commissioned the artwork. So while it took a little more effort to create new designs and get some new glass, I think things are coming together beautifully. My clients really love sparkly things so I had an idea to get this type of glass called “dichroic” which I often use in making jewelry. It has a coating on it that allows light to shift when it passes through so the color changes depending on how you look at it. I had thought I would use a little bit of it in each feather but that didn’t look the way I wanted it to. So last night I created the pieces for the whole feather on the bottom right of this photo. I cut and shaped the dichroic glass and sprinkled some frit (finely ground glass that resembles sand) of various colors to create a feather texture and introduce some additional colors to harmonize with the other feathers. I think that having the entire feather created with dichroic glass gives it an almost magical quality; it’s sparkly with dramatic color shifts. And who doesn’t want a little more magic in their lives!