Designing is a big part of the process of creating art glass. Once the design is created, a full size hand drawn pencil version is created. If any adjustments at scale are needed, they are done at this point and the pattern is attached to the glass. Then we start adding the lead lines to one side.
The images below show a detail of the pencil work and the start of the lead lines. There are several steps in the fabricating process and this is just the beginning. It is important to put the lead lines down in the most secure order, so they can seem oddly spaced at the start. But, once all the lead lines are one, we flip the pattern over and tape it to the now leaded side. This gives us our lines to fill in with the color and textures. Once that side is complete, a new layer of lead lines are added over the color. After that, the art piece is complete and on to be placed in it’s setting!
