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Stained glass case studies

The Fitting

March 8, 2010 Stained glass case studies

Here’s a shot of the fitting …

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Today

March 6, 2010 Stained glass case studies

It works, that’s what people say. They are astonished by the effect of the glass on the space around it.
Photographs come later – tonight some sleep.

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Tomorrow

March 5, 2010 Stained glass case studies

You spend weeks and months on the design – moving from tiny black-and-white sketches to 1:10 half-toned approximations; and then onwards to a full-sized water-colour painting, plus a full-sized black-and-white tonal drawing (to give a clear instruction to us painters about where the light must pass through really clearly) …
And then you finally come to [...]

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The Hereford Saga Part 2: The Owl and the Brief

December 13, 2008 Stained glass case studies
The owl that's hidden in the stained glass cartoon for Hereford Crematorium

First-time visitors, click here to start at the beginning of this bizarre tale of stained glass design …
It was P.R. Exec. #1 who broke the silence: “Where did you say that this new stained glass window was going?”

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The Hereford Saga Part 1: The Mystery of the Terrified PR Executives

December 4, 2008 Stained glass case studies

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Our Public Relations team looked shocked. Anyone would have thought that we’d dismissed them and moved to a different Agency.
Or (much the same thing) that a particularly terrifying prophecy in the Book of Revelation had come to pass.
What on earth had we done?
I checked [...]

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