Giving the gift art is something special. When my husband and I got married we asked our guests to make us something instead of purchasing gifts. These are some of our most treasured positions to this day - we look at each piece and think of our friend who made it (or comissioned it...) and think of our day and we’re transported.
This piece, American Traditional, was comissioned for my client to give his brother on his wedding day. Drawing on classic American Traditional tattooing motifs of roses, swallows, horseshoes, and sacred hearts and utilizing traditional bold colors with lots of black - this is one of my favorite pieces to date. Okay, I know blue isn’t technically keeping to the rules, but there just had to be blue!!
The American Traditional Glass is made of 170 lovingly hand crafted individual pieces and measures approximately 16 inches square. A range of glass was used including opaque, semi-transparent, string glass, and architectural glass.
Follow the evolution of this glass: Original sketches; coded template; “dirty” glass that’s been cut and ground; cleaned glass; copper foil applied; soldered; chemicals applied to blacken the solder; framed and hung.
