Zebra in Stained Glass

by Pete
(Bristol, UK)

This stained glass art work used cropped and enlarged extracts from a zebra photograph as patterns for acid etching the individual pieces of float glass. The resulting depressions were painted with glass paint and fired in a glass kiln before the raised clear surface was abraded.

There was a happy accident - the unexpected warped surface from the kiln firing schedule caused a mottled effect that I thought added to the piece.

Someone suggested the use of automotive brake tube for the davits, and the chunk of red wood was the result of a small contribution to the tea club of a joinery firm. Another 3D object.

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