I submitted my manuscript for my book, Kicking Glass, on March 31st, but there’s no time now to rest (aside from a weekend trip to New Hampshire).
My roll of full scale drawings travelled to Kentucky and back.
And I brought this full scale sample panel to show my concept of incorporating depression glass pieces.
Just a week before the book deadline, I flew down to the Makers Mark distillery for some meetings, and I got the final approval on my 1/3 scale drawings.
Overall, the project will cover two exterior walls, the longer of which is about 35 feet long and 10 high. I’ll construct around 80 or 90 stained glass panels about 21 inches square. They’ll be set into aluminum curtain walls at the distillery, in a vestibule that is the entrance to the bottling line (where they dip the bourbon bottles into the wax – Margie’s idea!) and which also has a window into the lab. The back wall of this vestibule will have a display of Margie’s pewter collecion (which inspired the name “Makers Mark”).
So now I’m immersed in making full scale drawings of the front wall, column by column. All of my initial sketches were from the perspective of looking at the wall from the OUTSIDE of the building (with the door on the right), but now it makes more sense to think of the piece from the INSIDE (with the door on the left) So, I’ve flipped everything over, which explains why my grid is numbered in the wrong direction!
I had been thinking like this…
now I’m thinking like this.
Needed to add a column in position 5.
Additionally, at our March meeting, the dimensions of the wall were changed a bit. So I’ve needed to add a column (#5) to the front wall.
We are waiting for curtain wall fabricator to give final dimensions so that we can print full scale patterns and start construction. But we’re READY TO GO… to make pattern creation and reproduction more efficient, I’ve invested in a 24” roll printer, as well as a ledger printer. In the past, I’ve done most of my large format copies using a light box and sharpie, but that’s not going to cut it here!