Stained Glass Patterns and Tips from GlassSorcery.com

Well, I am waiting till the end of the month to see how many votes are cast in the stained glass pattern poll. I started it on Feb 6th and there are only 21 votes so far. If you haven’t voted, please do so.
It looks like the Animal Kingdom is ahead with 5 votes. I have a Rottweiler pattern ready now, and I have started working on some other dog patterns. I also have a couple of birds ready, and I am finishing another palomino horse pattern.

Celtic, landscapes, and flowers & plants are tied for second place at this point. I am working on some florals now, and I have a couple of landscapes and Celtic patterns almost ready, too. (As you can tell from this, I like to work on several things at once.)

I am disappointed that no one has voted for history as of today. I have a couple of nice patterns in that category, but, of course, I will post them at some point anyway.

History is one of my favorite subjects. The kids and I have been studying the ancient Greeks and Romans recently. We just covered the fall of Rome and we’re moving on to Byzantium. While we were studying ancient Egypt I made a couple of patterns based on Egyptian art. I posted one of Anubis. I also have a King Tut pattern. I know, everyone has made one of those, but I happen to like mine. I’ll post it eventually and you can let me know what you think.

Did you know that the ancient Egyptians did not think of their artwork as we think of artwork? We think of art for art’s sake, but to them all of their paintings and statues were meant to perform a function for specific individuals in the afterlife. They had a very different outlook on life and death. I’ll bet King Tut would have been happy to know how much attention would be focused on him after his death. The more that people remember him, study him, and admire him, the longer he will live on in the afterlife. Such a shame that he died at such an early age- only 18 or 19. I saw the picture of the reconstruction of Tutankhamen’s face that the National Geographic did in 2005. He was a nice looking young man, despite his imperfections.

More later. Go vote in my poll now. Thanks!

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