Currituck Lighthouse

After many months of eyestrain, the last of approximately 7,000 glass bricks has been placed in Currituck Beach Light Mosaic table at That Stained Glass Place.

Approximately 20,000 pieces of glass make up this Fine Art Mosaic. The lighthouse bricks are shaded with 3/8” glass vitreous tiles and Uroboros art glass hand-nipped into 1/16^th x 3/16^th and 1/8^th x1/4'” pieces. The windows are 1/8” mirror. The sky background is Spectrum sky blue wispy strip cut then hand-nipped with the whiter pieces of glass placed together to form clouds. The pine tree branches were all cut and ground to achieve the long narrow needles. The willow branches consist of glass stringers bent with a torch and hand-nipped Youghigheny stipple glass. The willow tree at the base of the lighthouse is hand-nipped Youghigheny stipple glass with 5 different colors of grout. The trees on either side of the lighthouse upon close examination have actual leaf shapes made by hand-nipping triangles and then nipping two corners off. The edge of the table consists of handmade tiles alternating lighthouses and blank tiles fused and fire polished to create a smooth surface. There are 15 colors of grout throughout this Fine Art Mosaic.

After being inspired by helping a young couple that came in for Drop-in Mosaic to make a lighthouse table (Hatteras) for a gift. I began cutting bricks for this Currituck Beach Light table on New Years Eve and finished it on Saturday June 25^th . I hesitated to begin this project, however, the challenge of doing something unique in an art subject that is so overdone intrigued me.

A work in progress

42" Circular table

A work in progress

Kill Devil Hills NC. 02/26/05 After 6 weeks of eyestrain and lacerated fingers we are yet to be 1/4th of the way complete with the latest project at That Stained Glass Place. After being inspired by helping a young couple that came in for Drop-in Mosaic to make a lighthouse table (Hatteras) for a gift. I began cutting bricks for this Currituck Beach Light table.

Six weeks later I am still cutting bricks to create the proper perspective, as the lighthouse gets taller the bricks get smaller. I must be in a brick phase, because I have begun to tile the sky with brick shaped pieces. It may appear that I am jumping around on this project. This is not due to attention deficit, simply eyestrain. I can only work on the small bricks for short periods of time before they start to blend together.

Right now there are over 1400 bricks in the lighthouse, over 500 tiles in the sky background, and hundreds more pieces of glass in the trees. I have begun cutting leaf shaped pieces for the trees that surround the base of the lighthouse.

I will send more pictures as project draws to completion.

This piece is not commissioned.

I anticipate this project taking another 3-5 months

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June 25, 2005

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