Southwestern art comes alive (again!) in Kachina #2, a freehanging artwork that sold recently in a gallery in Santa Fe, NM. I used 1/4" lead in the face and background, and 1/8" lead in the surrounding feathers (all lead and solder have been patina-ed a uniform charcoal gray). This stained glass artwork is framed in a natural oak wood frame that looks black here but is actually light brown with visible wood grain. The Kachina's face consists of pale baby-blue mottled (spotted) glass, opaque wispy white glass, and cathedral pink glass that is very expensive because it is actually colored with gold (internally... like cobalt blue glass is colored with the element cobalt). The feathers are all cut from sheets of multi-colored Kokomo Opalescent glass in shades of blues, greens, purples, pinks, and browns. They are actually much more colorful than they appear here. The pink feathers (which form a 5-pointed star) are cut from a swirled pink glass that is iridescent on the surface (a quality which is hidden when light is coming through the artwork, but shows up with a very colorful carnival-glass look when no light is coming through). The background (outside the feather tips) is a finely ribbed clear glass, and is arranged in a herringbone pattern (every other piece at a different angle) that is totally hidden here, but stands out greatly in the actual artwork. This piece provides total privacy, but is very colorful (much more so than it appears here). Overall size is 33.5" in diameter.   The asking price of this unique piece of southwestern art was $3275.00.  Someone made the gallery an offer, and the gallery owner and I decided to settle for 10% off, bringing the final selling price to $2950.00. I will be glad to custom design and produce an artwork such as this especially for you in any price range you choose!

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