Glass - foiling, painting, grinding and soldering

 

FOILING
Each cut piece of glass is covered along the edge with an adhesive copper foil, that will later be soldered, fusing all the pieces together. Each panel consists of over 100 individual pieces of cut glass.

 

foiling glass

PAINTING
Painting is done on the flat, back side of the glass and in reverse. I'm doing it on a light-box so the image shows through, allowing me to trace paint.

hand-painting glass on light-table

GRINDING

Each piece of glass should lay fairly snug against each other, if it does not, grinding the glass to shape and size will be required. There should be enough gap between the pieces so they giggle just a bit. This gap will allow for room for the copper tape.

SOLDERING

The foil is then brushed with liquid flux and soldered (those are my husband's hairy hands - he helped me out with this part).