Louis Comfort Tiffany

Students viewed Louis Comfort Tiffany's exquisite stained glass and we talked about his new ideas for imbedding the glass with color and making it look like a painting with depth.  The project we did looks like a stained glass piece but used simple materials such as stained glass patterns, clear transparencies, foil, and permanent markers.  I used this as an opportunity to teach color theory as well.  Big wow factor with these and huge success rate!

Begin with your paper and tape it to the table, then tape a clear transparency over it.

Students color with permanent marker. They remove it from the table and glue crinkled foil behind it.

This student used the smudging of the black sharpie to her advantage by allowing it to blend with her orange marker creating value...love it!

Nice touch with the pink markings in the center. Beautiful.