Sunday, May 8, 2011

Tulips at Sunset


"Tulips at Sunset" is a beautiful new piece by Ted Ellison of Theodore Ellison Designs.   The layered window piece incorporates glass made in collaboration with Evan Chambers of Pavonine Glass in Pasadena,  as well as glass painted and fired at the TED studio.   Says Ted: "It's a technique that's used in European cathedrals, but I'm using the Tiffany off-shoot version where there is a painted/shaded layer, a modulating color / texture layer and a overall color layer. Each cell is between 1 - 4 layers thick."
The painstaking process certainly pays off,  with a soft, luminous color and the elegant lead lines that are the signature of Ted Ellison's work.