Claude Monet Influence

I picked up this thrift store book today for $4. I love one image (detail) near the back of this thin volume. I keep thinking wha it may look like as a Ambrotype. I do that often with JMW Turner paintings, now it is starting with later Monets.

Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner from 1842.

A Ton of FREE GLASS, Got to Love It!, $5000 CAD?

I counted up some of the FREE glass I got today. There are about

4 large sheets of 3mm

14-15 large sheets of 4mm

and a dozen so smaller sheets of 3 and 4 mm.

Most of this glass (unscratched),  I can use to make  Ambrotypes on, Glass up to 24x24 inches. With the 4mm thick glass I will have to take the back of the holders to prevent light leaks.

There is also some textured glass in various sizes that is not as useful but that I can probably cut down and paint, to use as background substrates for framed works.

I am unsure how much this glass is worth new but my guess is $4000-$5000 CAD. The glass is far from new, muddy, scratched and some broken but still a wonderful find for the AMBROTOS KANATA project.

 I had some positive Karma today!

Thank you Elizabeth and Keith!! 

 

I hope I can turn some of your fathers glass into works of art, worthy of collecting. Something that can be shown in a museum 1 hundred years after we are all gone.

In the barn

On the truck

Got My FREE Glass

Got my FREE GLASS!! 4-5mm thick, many very large sheets, small sheets. A variety of other glass as well. Will use it for the AMBROTOS KANATA Ambrotype  project. 

Thank you Elizabeth and Keith!!

The FREE glass locked, wrapped in carpets, locked down on the back of "THE BEAST" 1 Ton

Free Stuff

I have taken to getting FREE stuff Facebook marketplace. Picked up 2 large metal shelves for the carpentry room and a slightly abused picnic table last week. 

Going to get a bunch of glass tomorrow for the Ambrotype project. All FREE. If undamaged will use it for plates if scratched will use it as a blackened substrate to place behind the Ambrotypes when framed.

FREE picnic table, before and after a repair and 1 coat of grey paint

The 2 FREE metal shelves, added to the carpentry room

FREE glass I will pick up tomorrow

Nice Used Find

Got a lightweight, smaller, aluminum folding scaffold today. Delivered to the house, cost was $75 CAD. A lot more expensive, new online ($366).

Bought it for work around the house (painting etc.) but I might be able to incorporate it into the AMBROTOS KANATA project as well. Camera support? A raised sitting position? Inside a tent as a shelf? Not sure just yet how I will use it but the light wait and functionality gives me options.