Stained Glass Iron Man 2

[tripperfunster]

No, not from the movie Iron Man 2!

dickgloucester has a really cool Iron Man icon and I wanted to do a window of it. She wasn't sure of the original artist, and even when I googled 'iron man cubism' or iron man vorticim I only came up with this and I don't think it's the same artist.

EDIT: Artist found! It's Liam Brazier: http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/liambrazier/

Anyhoo, I just squinted, and worked off the icon and here is the resulting window! It measures 2'x 2' and was about 160 pieces of glass. Sadly, the icon uses a lot of pinks, but they don't really exist in glass. So reds and oranges instead.



It's been grey and cloudy around here for days, so this was the best picture I could get. I'll try again if the sun ever comes out.

Comments

[tipitiwitchet.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that's lovely. You totally nailed the perspective!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I really just copied the icon, so I can't take credit for any perspective work.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. Foil wrap or lead came?

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Copper foil. I've never done lead came. I REALLY want to try actual glass staining/painting. I"ve been watching tutorials. :D

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fantastic! I love how Iron Man's angles are made for the stained glass window!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I gotta say, the triangles were pretty easy to cut.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hel-LO, beautiful. Oh, my, that is so stylized and fantabulous. Freaking amazing.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It is such a beautiful medium to work in. Even ugly ones look nice!

[emeraldarrows.livejournal.com]

That's really awesome!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Totes awesome. :)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon!

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Holy cow that is gorgeous!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's becoming a bit of an obsession.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with that! :-)

And hey, are you allowed to say who you got for the BB? Did you know that one of the ones you listed was mine? :-)

[twillery.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

That is really, really great.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm very happy with it.

[mikoserena.livejournal.com]

Did a google image search and came up with a lovely print (http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/liambrazier/man-made/).

Amazing window tho

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you! I will amend the post to credit him.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[gestaltrose.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks dear!

[nerakrose]

that's amazing <3 love the colours you went with.

out of curiosity, how do you "bind" the glass together with the black stuff so it doesn't fall out of the frame?

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You actually put metallic tape around the edge of each piece of glass, then solder them all together with lead. The melted lead sticks to the metal in the tape.

[nerakrose]

^^

ohh! well that makes sense. i was entertaining fanciful ideas of the black bits being specially made frames or something... this sounds so much simpler and more sensible. :D

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

:D You're not actually wrong with that theory. Church windows (and all stained glass windows 100 years ago) use a sort of lead frame that you cut and put around each piece of glass, but then Tiffany (I"m sure you've heard of his lamps?) He devised the method of putting the copper foil around the glass, thus allowing artists to make much smaller and more delicate designs.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

cool!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks~!

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, very nice. Why no pinks, I wonder? You know me (or even if you don't), when something doesn't exist I have to dig and find out. I don't know if it's curiosity or pure stubornness, lol.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

:D There are a FEW pinks, but they're expensive. It has to do with how the glass is fired. most 'stained' glass is infused with colour in the firing process, and pinks need multiple firings to have it show up, and the cost is much higher. (at least, that's MY understanding of it)

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

Once again, very lovely! The variety of shades of red and gold is beautiful, and I love the blocky style. If I had a piece like this I would proudly hang it in my window!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yes, mine is just SITTING on the sil right now. I need to get some hooks!

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

Flippin'
awesome!!!

have you thought of making smaller ones? Panes of glass I mean, although I'd imagine it'd probably be more difficult to get the smaller bits of the picture....

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

:D I am very much a 'Go big, or go home' type person. Although, I'm considering doing some little arc reactors ....

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! This is so neat.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It is probably a hobby that you'd enjoy. You seem like a meticulous person (or at least have good attention to detail) and it takes a lot of that.

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, it would frustrate me to hell and gone. I love the way you elevate every craft with fan art! It's both beautiful and amusing.

My kid made a stained glass craft at camp with silver solder. It has pride of place on the tchochkeh bookshelf.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can't even… I'm in awe. If I had the means and opportunity I'd try and persuade you to sell it to me *G* It's fantastic!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I wish it was cheaper to make, and then I would sell them, but the cost of glass alone on this one was over $100. Plus copper foil, lead and chemicals.

Not a cheap hobby!

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

I'm not really surprised. I figured that specialty glass would be really expensive! But they are gorgeous :)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

That is so amazingly cool.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[lokifan]

Wow - gorgeous!

[sra-danvers.livejournal.com]

Wow, awesome!!!