Student Art - Sharons Funky Owl

I should have posted this a long while ago. There's a nice story attached to this one, that just proves that you can come up with a design from some pretty neat objects. My student, Sharon, found an old copper planter at an auction she went to and purchased. The exterior of the copper planter had this embossed image on the exterior, which she thought was interesting. So she made a rubbing of it and brought it to the shop. She wondered if she could make a stained glass design from it. "Why not?" I said. And so we did. I think it turned out very well and she now has this piece proudly hanging at home!

Way to go with creativity Sharon!

Dragonfly Software/Glass Eye "Design of the Month"

Hello All,

I just can't believe it, but a design that I created and manufactured (Porsche 911) for a client was selected as Dragonfly Software's "Design of the Month". Dragonfly Software created a wonderful program called Glass Eye 2000. Glass Eye 2000 is the software that I now create many of my designs with. It's functionality is amazing, it's a very quick to learn program and has enhanced my ability to design, make changes, email designs to clients, etc. As you can tell, I just love it and feel that it's given my creativity wings! If you are interested in viewing the write up, just go to WWW.DFLY.COM and double click the blue button "Design of the Month".
BTW, when you visit their site you may also download a free trial of Glass Eye so that you may try it for yourself. I can't say enough positive things about how much fun it is to use!
My design should be the focal design for the month of April and then will be seen on their site as a past design, as they keep them on for an indefinite period of time.
I am so pleased and excited that they felt that my design was worthy of this honor!
Thanks for listening!

De

Salsa anyone?

And I don't mean the type you eat with Taco Chips! I've been taking Salsa dance classes for the past month and a half..what a great experience. I'd highly recommend that if you enjoy dancing to go to your local dance studio and take some Salsa lessons. It will be your next new and very enjoyable exercise program! I love everything about this dance, the music just invites your feet to move. And it's taking off in my area..just ask the Salsa Mafia! LOL So, of course I had to design a pattern around this particular dance and there may be more dance panels coming soon!

Tennessee Walking Horse

A friend of mine happens to have a few nice examples of this breed, and it also happens to be an American breed of horse. With that in mind I decided that if I'm going to produce a book, at some point, of horses "made in the USA" I'd better include a TWH...shorthand for Tennessee Walking Horse..lol.
Walkers are known for their very comfortable "running walk", which is extremely comfortable to sit to and covers ground very quickly. It's also very comfortable for the horse to do and the TWH's are the only breed known for this gait!
Hope you enjoy seeing the pattern!

More Horse Patterns

Here are a few more that I've been working on but haven't posted as yet. And I'm currently working on a way of allowing people to purchase the patterns using Paypal and having the colored and workable pattern copies emailed directly to them. Stay tuned..I think some kinks need to be worked out.
Hope you enjoy the patterns!

Denise

Snowstorm Creativity

Snowstorm Creativity

We've just had a good sized snowfall over the last day or so, and since I'm really not too fond of cold temperatures I found other better ways to spend my time. Those of you who are real died in the wool horse types may like these.
I must admit that now that I've gotten started I feel that I may be headed to putting together another book...not that it will be a best seller or anything...but it will be fun to do!

I've never felt that there were realistic enough patterns out there to satisfy me. Being a life long (or nearly) horse person I was always looking for specific breeds, a horse was not just a horse...four legs and a tail. I wanted certain characteristics. So I decided that perhaps I should take the task on of seeing how realistic I could get with glass, that wasn't an un-doable project.

I hope I'm getting there, but you guys can leave comments and let me know how I'm doing.

That being said..I would prefer that no one copy these designs...or contact me if you have interest in that pattern.