Barb approached me for a panel to capture the time she and Ken and their kids spent on their sailboat. It was to be a Christmas present for Ken with a companion piece representing their life in Huron Woods to be a birthday present for him in February.
After trawling through images of sailboats on the net, I designed the piece using Glass Eye 2000, which easily allowed me to tweak the size and placement of the boat within the panel.
The folks at Sunrise Glass were, as usual, very knowledgeable and patient in helping me choose the glass and figuring out the amounts I would need.
I had Glen Baillie make the frames for both panels before I began, to minimize the chance I would finish the piece and find it didn't fit the frame, the external dimensions of which needed to be 53 centimetres.
The pieces are foiled with 7/32 black-backed foil, and I added a black patina to the solder to contrast with the bright, light colours of the glass.
