First leading

I've leaded up my first ever stained glass piece. There are 3 breaks and 5 mistakes in total that i can see. It is the first layer of a multi-layered window to be fitted into a 1938 ammo tin. it will hopefully show a scene from the Blitz.

First Cuts

First ever stained glass pattern. Two breaks but nothing I cant fix. It would be better if I didn't break it in the first place but it all comes with practice i guess.

Secret Constuctions and exhibition upkeep

I am currently helping construct a secret project. Very hush hush but details will emerge in November as to why i have been slacking in the glass department. Im also a guardian of a David Blandy exhibition at my work in Haggerston. 

Next design (Knights Bridge)

It is said that Miyamoto Musashi (the greatest swords man in the Japan) met a samurai on a bridge only wide enough for one. It was agreed upon that the lesser warrior should step aside. Disagreeing on who was the lesser they drew they're swords and and regarded each other closely. After a minute without a twitch of movement they simultaneously put away they're swords bowed and left in search of another crossing.  Each man had observed the other and acknowledged that he was his equal in every respect and violence would only be foolish pride.

However this is England.

An identical situation here resulted in a fight so fierce that the area was named knightsbridge and the name has lasted long after the river itself has long disappeared. 

wilt. wither. wimple.

 Here's one from a fellow park keeper. Henry VIII during a particularly bad blizzard ejected a community of nuns into the night so as to use they're halls for a ball. They huddled together on what is now St James Park where they froze but not before cursing the king that no flowers would bloom after the cruelty he had committed. It is said that is why st James park is flowerless and why the Tudor line( represented by a rose) withered within a generation.

 Another opinion is that on finding out that the king (Charles II) was picking flowers for his mistress from the grounds of the park the queen ordered that all flowers should be band from the land. There are still no formal flower beds.

Wilt Consept sketch

This design has tiny detail that I am about to scalpel out, and so in all probability this is going to go wrong hence an insurance post. See you on the other side.

Intermission over (Mill Co)

Just completed a six week internship at the Mill co Project in Haggerston. An up and coming community arts program with a grand ambition for the future. it did however mean when i wasn't there i was sleeping and so Ive got a bit lacks on my own work. I'll work on that =S

 (this post is a binding contract that can be used on Glen Ross Riches Should he once again become lazy, Please invoke with fire and brimstone if laziness is spotted)