a few years ago, I did a short introduction to stained glass at one of the facilities in Derby University and I loved it.
half of the fun was trying to cut/manipulate the small glass pieces without buggering it up, it teaches patience and how to say b*gger, instad of f*** when you break
a piece of glass that you have been working on for hours.
I had another love, that was for electronics, especially vintage electronics, i had always been interested in valve television sets and the use of testcards to align/test them, so as i was a nerd, i had been collecting test card images from all over the world and i thought that they would make brilliant stained glass pieces of art
but... as i am now down to one working arm, cutting glass is almost an impossibility, however due to my stubbornness, i have decided to go ahead anyway, but using acrylic/perspex instead of glass, i'll still be using lead and solder for the frame, i also started with a pencil sketch of the memorable BBC testcard girl, which i will recreate using glass paint
for the finished centre piece