Glass of Sherry
Today I spent some time filling in the smaller gaps in the blue background. The hummingbird window is almost there! Once the mosaic adhesive cures, I will look at the whole window in the light and decide what other smaller gaps still need to be filled. After that, it will be ready for the resin.
Working on gluing the background in place today. I needed to cut some more pieces, only to discover I had a helper hanging out underneath my Morton Glass Works straight edge… Luckily I was gentle with the piece of glass I was trying to shove underneath it. My husband said he heard the scream two levels up in our house. Thanks to the hubs for relocating Mr. Lizard outside in our yard!
I’ve got the larger pieces of blue glass cut and glued down for the background. My next thing to focus on is cutting small pieces to fill the larger gaps in the background.
Today I cut the larger pieces of the blue background for the hummingbird and laid them out. I will remove them and glue down the bird and flowers before I commit the background, though. Right now I’m still figuring out the layout options. I am thinking a few more green leaves might be nice, but I want to show it to my friend in whose home it will eventually live first.
Starting to fill in with some more vine, leaves, flowers and flower buds. Next will be the blue glass for the sky, which was chosen by the friend for whom I am making this one. Nothing is glued down yet as I’m just in the beginning stages and want to be able to change things if needed.
Today I made progress laying out the hummingbird along with the beginnings of a trumpet vine. Still lots more to do, including some fine tuning of the bird itself, but I wanted to start to try out different layouts for the flowers and vine.
I’ve been working on prepping a recycled window (sanding, painting, cleaning, etc) that will be positioned vertically and hold a sparkly hummingbird. Today was the first day the rough shape of the little bird (who’s actually significantly larger than real life) began to emerge. Still lots more to do, but he’s looking more “bird-like”.
