Update: The piece sold during an 8-hour long silent auction, raising $5,678.90 for Child's Play! Congratulations to the new owner! I'm already excited to see what we can make for next year's Desert Bus.
We got the idea to make something for Desert Bus for Hope last winter, and this summer we finally set aside a weekend or two to actually do it (after hearing back from the Craft-along folks). The design we settled on was the iconic Black Lotus of Magic fame, with a circular frame of dichroic frosted glass, what for the thematic multi-color reflections.
If it wasn't clear from the first bit - This very piece CAN BE YOURS! Just tune into this year's Desert Bus for Hope, starting November 9th. We don't know yet if this will be a give-away or an auction, but by the time Desert Bus ends some charitable soul will be the lucky new owner of this, the rarest (and possibly heaviest?) of black lotuses.
It's true I've done a glass lotus before, back in 2013, but this was a much more intricate undertaking, involving more individual pieces and fused-paint details. Both my partner and I are a good bit more experienced than we were five years ago, and wanted to make sure the result would be worth sharing. I should clarify, she did the vast majority of the work on this piece, I helped with cutting and grinding, but she deserves the real credit for the result!
I wish I'd taken more process photos, but aside from being picky about orienting the dichroic segments, there weren't too many tricky bits to document.
