More Artwork

Dalle de Verre windows from the outside of the chapel at night.

Laying out the chunks of Dalle de Verre before pouring epoxy.

When I pour the epoxy and carborundum, I like to cap the glass temporarily with a protective caulk, which is then picked away. Because the glass is faceted with a chisel, and you don’t want the black epoxy in all those facets.

A sketch is made in Photoshop of what the design will be. This is an estimation of what colors, etc. This design has to be a cross with the 24 elders around it as a frame.

Installing the window and the 24 elders as tiles around it.

The bottom of each window has crowns on the ground as the Glory comes down.

I also made the carved cedar pews and stained them black to look like they came from an old church in Mexico.

I tried a bit of landscape in the cantina windows. Yucca and agave and mesas at sunset. You’re working with thick chunks of faceted glass. So it’s a bit abstract with Dalle De Verre.

In some of the night sunset mesas I got to have some abstract fun.

I think I might have gotten addicted to Dalle de Verre in these night landscapes at the end. There’s a pretty cool abstract look to them. But they were just to add color at the end. The chapel was the main focus and remains the main focus of the project.

I’m still working on the scenes from Revelation beneath the window here. I will post more photos when I’m done. Here you see the 24 elders face down casting their little crowns to the ground.

The main theme here at the chapel is the crowns on the ground as the Glory comes down in streams of color.

After I made a mold of the old Crazy Water Hotel dining room plaster, I recast it and refinished it to shine again!

Here’s what I had to work with at the start.

Faceted Dalle de Verre from the outside.

Restoring the Crazy Water Hotel a piece at a time, using dental tools, making casts, a slow process of restoring but did you know those old tiles are worth a lot today? Yep. So the cleaning is a slow process. The hotel had been used as a senior citizens’ home, and also a hospital delivering babies at one time, so there was a lot of paint and mortar, and splattered plaster, and dirt, etc. On the left is the restored part, on the right is the original.