John Kenneth Clark - In Progress

This image shows the glass on the light table in the etchingroom. At this stage, all I have done is to etch out the stars and the birds.

This picture shows the figure of Christ from the center window. You can see just here what has been etched away.

While I am working on the main pictorial sections of the window, the glass for the borders and canopies is being painted. No etching is used to create these areas, but they still require several laqyers of painting to make them complete. 

some of the border glass lying in the kiln ready to be fired.

This shows window three with all the glass cut lying on the light table next to the drawing.

This window will be etched in the coming days

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Here, the line has been fired and the tonal work can be painted.

Painting the line onto the border glass.

Before I beginm painting the central area of each of the three windows, I will etch the glass with acid to remove some of the colour from the “flashed glass”.

In this image, the glass has been etched and replaced on the drawing

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After the etching has been completed.

This is some glass in the acid being etched

This shows the central area of one of the windows where all the glass has been cut and is placed on the drawing

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All the glass is cut by hand.

This image shows the image building as more glass is cut and placed on the light table.

Note that the glass is placed on the drawing at the moment and has still to be worked

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Piece by piece the glass is cut and returned to the drawing

Templates placed on different colours of glass

The templates are placed on the glass, sometimes very precisely.

This shows a couple of the templates placed on the drawing on a light table

The templates from one window completed.

The templates are cut based on this tracing.

The tracings are then used to create the templates from which the glass is cut.

The red lines seen od the tracing are used for cutting the glass and later they will be the lead lines

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This is the drawing for the middle window

Here is a detail of the now completed full sized drawings

On the scaffolding.

On the Scaffolding.

Here is Barbara on the scaffold making templates.

Here are both samples as photographed in the glass studio.

Thsi sample uses a red/blue glass as the background colour.