Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Crafts: Captain Marvel Stained Glass



Ravings Aside is the Tumblr of a nerdy artist who creates all forms of crafts, including ceramics, cross-stitch samplers, doilies, and stained glass.  This piece includes detailed build photos that demonstrate the many steps involved in creating a hand made stained glass window.  The steps are: Drawing - pattern-cutting - glass-cutting - grinding - washing - foiling - assembling - soldering - wash - patina - wash - frame-sawing - frame-filing - frame-soldering - detail-painting - hanging! 
"People seemed to like the Hawkguy stained glass, so here is another piece with the wonderful Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel! Inspired by the powerful art of Jamie McKelvie that truly captured the strength and determination of one of my favorite heroes.

It will also be hanging at Fantastic Comics :D

(The mesh behind it on the photos is a bug net I cannot remove from my windows… Living in grad housing has its advantages and inconveniences - sigh.)

The piece is 20 inches x 30 inches; 300$ worth of glass, 8$ worth of solder and 5$ worth of band-aids"






Drawing out glass piece boundaries - some shapes are impossible to cut by hand so extra lines have to be added

RAAWR giant print at FedEx times 3

Cutting out all the pieces with special 3-bladed scissors that make allowance for the copper foil later

Cutting the glass (after gluing paper templates to glass). I say cutting, but it's really more like "stressful breaking".

Some idea for the scale of the smallest pieces; all pieces are ground by hand to match the shape of the pattern pieces perfectly

AAAAAAA SO MUCH GRINDING

FINISHED GRINDING I AM IN TEARS

Foiling! The lead/tin solder won't adhere to the glass so each piece is wrapped in copper tape. The regular tape is there to make sure I know which way is up.

I even gave her a little hair twiggle in foil. :)

And... soldered! On both sides!


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