Painting hot glass into impressionism latticino landscape-ish dream…

Through my childhood, I pretty much spent every summer taking a month long boat trip with my family. I did do some sketching during this time. Most often I was just looking around at the beautiful landscape in Michigan, and the view from the great lakes. We managed to travel all of the Great Lakes.

With that inspiration in the back of my mind, I typically find myself painting the views I remember most. Usually I am looking at the horizon, past many hills, and a lake or two. In the last couple years I have been painting the landscapes with glass. The last few really caught my eye, so I thought I would share them here.

The details in the landscape are made with Latticino. Latticino is when you put two or three different glass types or colors together and stretch it into a new rod of glass. The new rod will be striped straight or like a candy cane. (Ozziebuddy has a little story about latticino)Those rods can be welded together, creating a beautiful impressionistic little painting.

I put a small soul gesture (that is what I call my people) in the foreground of this second bead. I just Love when I can imagine what that person feels, or thinks. In this case, I am thinking of a song; “I got the whole world in my hands…the whole wide world…”

These painterly beads are incredibly similar to what I would create with a paint brush. This week, I made a larger latticino landscape, that will be framed and hung on the wall. It is amazing, years of painting, and hanging paintings on the wall, and now years of painting with hot glass, creating glass beads, and now I am putting them on the wall. Full circle artistic realities….right back where I started!

Sheila Morley is a happily married mother of two boys. She sells her work on the internet today, through her website, and at art and bead shows in Michigan. Sheila is currently seeking outside representation for her art. For up to date information on her art, you can visit Sheila’s art blog, ‘Art talk with Sheila Morley’