Leaf Dunes

This was a bit of an ambitious pieces for me. I worked on this piece at the end of July and early August.

It started with the Bird of Paradise in our bedroom and a leaf unfurling. The idea is plant shapes as land shapes.

Pic from sketch post.

I have a Queen of the Night Orchid cactus that sits on my working from home desk. I love the leaves. I sketched out the lowest leaf for a dune.

My working from home setup.

I will probably revisit the below design for a future stained glass piece. At this time, I was listening to Insomnia by Stephen King and so I took a couple notes related to the book in my notepad.

At first, I was going to stick with the blue reflected in my draft.

I decided to add clouds to try and add a bit of balance and made a few modifications.

I decided for the textures to use primarily opaque and clear glass with the exception of the sun. For the sun I used a glass with a seedy texture.

I felt like the clear green complimented the idea of light and the opaque glass one of shadow.

I've enjoyed having it hang over our window.

Here is Bagheera doing his cat thing.