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The Gallery is very impressive in its own right, and to do it justice, I had to believe representing the glass within the internal building structure was possible.  At a previous Seminar, I had overheard a comment that stuck with me that the buildings in the exhibit pieces didn't seem three-dimensional.  So there was the challenge! 

I went through different plans to pad the "glass" sections, but instead chose stitches and shades of blue to fill in the carefully drawn structure.  The metal frames holding the glass seemed a natural for metallics.  The marble base at ground leveI is stretched a bit in color by using silver kid.  But I wanted the monochromatic blue/silver overall.  On the building, only the buttress columns of wrapped wires stand out from the canvas as they do when you’re looking at the actual building.  The bushes consist of more bullion knots than I ever want to do again!  I used shades of blue-green and allowed a few bullions to fall over the edge of the frame.  The last section I did was the slabs of rocks in the foreground.  This became my own favorite section.  I painted a piece of canvas in gray shades, folded it a bit and placed it over felt padded sections.  I then stitched random running stitches in blue gray to secure the appliquéd canvas and hid the attachment with more bush bullion knots.