Butterfly Project 2014, part 2

Onto the outside of the wings. The first step was to apply silver leaf to translucent amber glass. Below you can see the un-foiled glass, the silver backing (at bottom), and the resulting finished glass (at top).

Add some long, thin pieces of dark brown translucent glass, some red glass for accent, and some pale yellow glass and you have butterflies.

And onto the background. Pink butterfly bush flowers were constructed of pink stained glass circles in a variety of shades and opacities.

You can see from the photo above how nicely the larger wings are going to shine in the sunlight. 

Leaves were cut from translucent green glass and the remaining areas filled in with a mix of translucent blue glass.

The video below shows my process for cutting the leaves for this design. 

To be continued . . .