A long-lasting arm injury has really slowed down my art production in the past year. As frustrating as it has been, I have a hunch that slowing down so much might have some payoffs. My ideas for the painting I’m working on definitely developed as I inched from one step to the next at a glacial pace. And I discovered that the arm motions involved in making a stained glass piece are actually less brutal on my arm than the repetitive stroke motions of painting.
I took a couple stained glass classes at Holdman Studios and am so glad I did. I liked the teachers, I liked the classmates, and I liked the medium. I’ve now set up a work station for stained glass in my garage and hope to be finishing some cool projects soon (or eventually, at least).
Have you ever had the joy of choosing panes of stained glass? What a thrill it was to shop at Western Art Glass for some of my first pieces of glass. And that first night of the class I took at Holdman Studios? It’s honestly lucky I didn’t trip and spill the loads of glass I was carrying as I excitedly speed-walked around the studio, choosing and unchoosing glass. I kept reminding myself to slow down, but it was not easy.
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