u/ce15ius

Hi! I'm pretty new to stained glass, but I love making my own patterns. I love art deco/nouveau designs, and I'm making this to be a roughly 20"x12" window for one of my (vertical) skylights. I've made up two versions, but I'm not super happy with either of them. The second one will have leaf segmentation like the first; I'm more concerned with dividing up the clear portion of the window.

Both options seem to produce some pretty gnarly little pieces, and I was wondering if y'all had any design recommendations to alleviate. I think the second one is better but still not perfect.

Any advice appreciated. ☺️

Got chatting with the Vestal museum staff on Saturday and got roped into expanding their telecommunications exhibit. 😅. Highly recommend, they've got some original telegraphs and a phone booth. Along with a metric f**kton of arrowheads. If anyone knows the exact construction date of that tower, lmk! I did some digging in the property records and didn't find much, so I just gave a range because it was on the 1970 map and it was not on the 1960 version.

Long Lines inspired stained glass lamp I made last weekend.
Panel 1: the Warsaw Long-Lines site.
Panel 2: stairs down to the main bunker entrance, inspired by one of the larger sites still used by AT&T (some artistic liberties were taken alright)
Panel 3: The inside of the bunker. The top layer is the outside with the cinderblock building and the legs of the tower. The middle is the generators, and the bottom is an empty server room with the signature blue pillars. This panel was not based on any specific site, more a collection of visuals I felt captured the inside of the bunkers without being too geometrically complex.
Panel 4: Indian Point Power plant, specifically from the angle you see it driving into Buchanan from the Bear Mountain Pass. My grandfather worked there as a steamfitter.

This project took me approximately 40 hours of labor to complete and I love it very much. I hope you guys too! I apologize if any of the parts are historically inaccurate, some concessions were made to the medium and time constraints.

I do take commissions for panels/windows/lamps (answering the question from my progress pics of this project). If you want the patterns to make something with them or your own, DM me and I will happily send them to you for free :)

This took way to long lol. I also have panes of the inside of the bunker with the generators and rows of erie blue columns, and the staircase down (with some artisitc liberties). :)

Shot on dji air 3s

Most of the things that sit on my desk (not usually in that position). I'm really stoked about the barite chalcedony, that's my newest edition. Most purchased at shows, the brachiopod, bivalve, and herkimer diamonds I found myself.