Could we be sisters!!???

This is my friend Bobbie, but she lets me call her Barbrella! I have known her for many many years. Twenty years at least. She is a courageous woman and mother.

We met each other in church a long time ago and have stayed in touch. We like to think we are sisters because we look a lot alike. She is creative in her work designing and editing videos for churches to use in their services. Her husband also helps her and is also very talented in video production and design.

Bobbie and her son Jesse. He had a book report to read that day. He was proud of his book as you can tell.

Brands...Ideas????

How can I use these in my show? I am open to ideas. I bought them at a thrift shop in Shawnee, Ok.

This is what my bus looked like after I cut so many designs out of the different colors of glass for me show. Above this picture are cast iron brands that I am not sure yet what I can do with for my show. I would like to work them in a design with glass but the ideas have not come yet.

Abstract close up of an Indian Feather

Since this picture was taken I have added colors of glass gems. I also intend to use my glass etcher and will be etching some Native American designs in the glass.

I started with these cut designs.

I wanted to create his face in a glass design piece.

Take a look at this brawny, strong, healthy animal. I wanted to get a close up of his face but as soon as I stepped out to take his picture he moved up a little too close for me. I just wasn't sure if he was nice or ready to run me down.

Currently working on a female glass design..

Do you know how hard it is to cut a small pair of lips out of glass without cracking her whole face????? There is still work to be done. She needs shadowing on her hat. The turquoise glass came from a sculpted glass piece, and it represents her scarf around her neck. The tan colored glass is the leather fringe on her jacket. Old bottle caps, and Indian Head Nickel button covers will be used to accent. She still has a long way to go before I am done, but I like the direction I am going with this design. She will also be in my show.

I started with this sketch.

My big buffalo and other pieces for my April Show

Lots of cool designs for my "Spirit of the West" gallery showing in April of 09.

All the pieces I have created so far. I am working on a female cowgirl as you can see from the blog entries. She will be added to this collection. Once they have light behind them, the colors will come alive.

A simple landscape scene...Oklahoma in February...

Simple glass cut design to show Oklahoma landscape in February.

My Native American piece along side my Oklahoma landscape design.

Everywhere I looked in the month of February I saw the wheat fields. The trees had no leaves, so they looked grey, but the sky remains a beautiful blue. This will also be for sale in my show.

A Native American Glass Design

I started with this rough sketch.

The buffalo has already been listed on my blog...but it shows my Native American glass design in the window with the sunlight behind it.

The finished product.

One of my Native American Indian designs for my show...

He started like this...just a design I drew on paper. Then I began to choose colors and cut him out in glass.

I put all the cut pieces in a box where I take him inside from the studio and start to foil each piece. I used masking tape on his face because I was afraid the glass would move around on his face. Those pieces were really small. The brooch in the middle of his neck piece came from a friend who bought it at a thrift shop in Modesto, California. We were both working in that town and took a break looking through the shops. I have held onto this piece for three years....and finally found the place where it would fit.

This is all the cut pieces carefully placed within the design.

The finished product. He looks even better in the sunlight. His hair is wheat colored and his eyebrows are turqouise. Cool huh?

Indian Feathers....

This is how they were cut - then taped together until they were eventually soldered together.

The feathers are all different. A broken rust colored ornament was soldered on five feathers in addition to pieces from a tan lamp shade that I had bought at an antique store. The lamp shade had ridges and lines in the design. I added beads of red and turquoise.

They were attached with leather strips, each feather hanging at a different level from a rusted cow collar. This will sell as one piece in my show, although I intend to keep making more feathers for individual purchase.

The whole piece hanging with the feathers. It can also be hung outside in a garden or porch area.

This picture shows the feathers in the light. Beautiful!

Close up Sections of my Oklahoma Sunset

Cool design - I just love how it turned out.

Awesome design - see more pics of how this design evolved. I just had to capture an Oklahoma sunset within my "Spirit of the West" glass art show.

Beginnings of my Oklahoma Sunset

This shows the emtpy frame and all the glass pieces I had cut for this design.

This is how the sunset started. Golden wheat colors, magenta glass cut in slow long curves. The picture shown here was from a magazine which showed dark black trees with twisted branches. I used this for my glass trees that were cut and placed in the design. You can see below.

Abstract Design - Oklahoma Sunset at Night

You can see the detail of the frame and how the geodes fit within this design.

In the evening during the summer months - the sky turns a bright magenta or burnt orange color. Swirls of orange, purple and blue radiate in the sky. Oklahoma sunsets are just beautiful. The black jack trees hold their silhouette against the colorful sky. The fields of golden wheat still glow at night.

The sunlight lights of the bright sky.

I wanted to add just a little blue at the base of the design. The colors are unique to the Oklahoma sunsets. The geodes came from my friend Jim. He found them in Missouri last spring. They are gray, black and creme colored. They fit well within the waves of this design. The oval frame had a mirror inside of it and came from Sarah, another artist in our gallery. This piece if three feet at its highest point and approx. two and a half feet wide. It will be on display in my SPIRIT OF THE WEST Art Show in April 09.

Belle of the Ball - SOLD!

She stands out in this gallery show!

"Belle of the Ball" was purchased by Michi Susan, a talented artist herself.

You can view her art at this site: http://www.jrbgallery.com/

I really enjoyed making this doll. All I started with was her arms and her head. I built all of the rest of her and her dress in glass.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. Please become a follower and visit often!

Lynn

Scultped glass art lamp

I took a shot of this lamp with the candle inside. Can you see how the designs danced up on the wall behind it?

These are pictures of the lamp in daylight. Scultped lamps take a lot of time and thought because you are designing and scultping at the same time. All the pieces must be placed in a way to create a unique design, yet give the lamp balance and weight in the right places.

This lamp would look beautiful on a desk in an office, or on a bookshelf. You can also put a string of clear lights up underneath (which I will do when it is displayed). This gives the piece more color, reflection and energy.