Document Type

Article

Date

4-1-2011

Keywords

Stained glass, art, stained glass artwork, copper foil overlay.

Disciplines

Art and Design

Description/Abstract

In a previous article, I have mentioned my view that stained glass work is akin to impressionism. We use the features of the glass to suggest detail in our subject matter. However, I often find that for some details, this approach is not adequate. For an example, see the scales in Koi, figure 1. It is also not always practical to implement this fine detail by joining large numbers of very small pieces of glass. In this article, I will talk about methods that produce effects compatible with the ‘lead’ lines of traditional stained glass, namely the use of copper foil overlays and wire.

Additional Information

The downloadable article is the final manuscript of the article, The Lead Line Effect: Shape without the came, published in Glass Craftsman. All rights reserved to the author, Robert Oddy. The article is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Licenses

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