Cottergarage Art Studio

09/18/2014

may have a new home https://www.flickr.com/photos/cottergarage/1342060665/

early piece

04/03/2014

late evening in studio building a mounting ledge and brackets for the drawing desk. i am mounting it to the side of the workbench. this is one of many steps to make the shop more organized and space to be used more efficiently. the "desk" will eliminate the drafting table and i will have a better view of TV (haha) the tricky part is it has to be easily removeable. pictures soon

03/19/2014

making a smaller piece i saw on internet, using all older glass, 100 yr + in age. 9 1/2 wide 15 inches tall.

01/31/2014

nearly finished the merging of 2 windows. bought off of craigslist, i love the swan windows. i put the two fwood frames together.

01/08/2014

Already sold the dark blue one, others are ready at Jewels on Hampton.

12/12/2013

I can't stop making blue notes with all this pretty blue glass.

12/10/2013

Latest "blue" notes, the blue and yellow one has the poured smooth edge on two of the outside edged. The spoted one is some scrap that my cousin Amy Pilliard's dad gave me. The glass had a sticker that said it was made in seattle. The blue/yellow is a piece of Kokomo ends

12/08/2013

My favorite idea for a reused item is my cutting surface. An old celing light diffuser plasric grid is what I set the glass on when cutting. Little chips that result can be fatal to bigger pieces when the are set on top of them. When pressure is applied for a cutting the chips can cause a crack. This surface let's the crap fall in the holes. That way I do not to have brush the work surface after each cut. It saves me so many steps on construction. The last pic is the stuff that fell through.

12/06/2013

Made it to it new home

11/28/2013

Tore apart some windows from the alley that Paul Riat told me about. One is rebuildable, the other will go in a new direction. If you have ever eaten at Pietro's resturant, they have some pieces like this at the door. Sort of like the little birds. One was cracked in half.

11/27/2013

Just had a big day, I shipped a large window to Virginia. I am proud of how well it is packed - all 57 lbs in a custom made wood crate. It should make it unbroken

11/20/2013

This one's going to be a lot better ugly green is going to keep in the floor delete (flur de leis) [voice to text translator]