Four new Lunettes

(Above:  Four new Lunettes ... framed and ready to go to April's Smithsonian Craft Show!  Click on any image to enlarge.)

For the last week or so, I've been constructing these four Lunette Windows.  Today was "framing day" ... which is an odd thing.  Before retiring and moving, every day was "framing day".  I don't miss running our custom picture framing business!  In the past, I would construct, melt, mount, frame, photograph, and blog each piece ... one at a time.  That's all the time each day permitted.  Now, however, it makes more sense to cut and build all the frames at the same time.  Below are the four new pieces.  I'm really pleased with them!

 

(Above:  Lunette LXXV.  Framed with anti-reflective/UV filtering glass:  22" x 28".  $525.)

Each piece is layers of polyester stretch velvet fused together on top of black, synthetic packaging felt.  The stitching is done with 100% black cotton thread.  The work is exposed to soldering irons and an industrial heat gun which melts through the synthetics.

(Above:  Lunette LXXVI. Framed with anti-reflective/UV filtering glass. $525.)

Each piece is mounted by hand-stitching it to a piece of acid-free mat board ... literally, holes through the mat board.

 

(Above:  Lunette LXXVII. Framed with anti-reflective/UV filtering glass. $525.)

This weekend, Steve and I are going to Washington, DC for the opening reception of a juried show called Full Circle at Strathmore in North Bethesda.  I have three Found Object Mandalas in the exhibit.

(Above:  Lunette LXXVIII. Framed with anti-reflective/UV filtering glass. $525.)