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Silly question, can you do stained glass round? Or does it have to have corners to fit properly? That's a neat painting, but I didn't know if you could do it with diamond shaped glass. Stained glass is so beautiful, have fun!

Wow what a gorgeous painting. That would be mind-blowing in stained glass. That reddish circle in the middle...could it look any more like strawberry jam?

I don't have a particular piece to suggest, but I like these. A lot. This one already looks like stained glass. But I have no idea what would appeal to you so it's kind of hard to suggest something.

Oh, also, check out the gorgeousness of the patterns at print & pattern, maybe something will knock your socks off.

I love those, iconomy. I think this one would look beautiful (and on preview, the patterns are inspiring as well):
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I've done a tiny bit of stained glass (suncatchers only so far) and you can do round bits. If you wanted to go even farther you could incorporate geodes or round glass pieces called rondels into your window. It doesn't have to be all "glass" per se.

Joan Miro did some nice things that could be translated into stained glass. [1], [2].

Also there's the Book of Kells, if you're feeling adventurous. Seems that a lot of the pictures on the web are of the major face pages and few are of the animals enwined throughout the text. I've got the Book of Kells DVD-ROM (available here), and if you wanted any screenshots of the animals - birds, fish, lions, and peacocks, to name a few of them - or the letters, let me know.

Why not take this chance to create your own special snowflake?

1. Welcome to an expensive hobby.

2. If this is the first time you've made a stained glass piece you will probably want to stick with something simple.

3. Safety glasses are your friend. No, really.

4. You might look at some craftsman era clipart books to get or outright steal ideas.

5. In the painting you showed - the stemmy-looking bits could be done with copper um whatever it's called? (Been a while since I did stained glass) The crap that goes between/hold the glass pieces! And you could burnish/patina it. That would be awesome. The round bits could be glass.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the wonderful Scottish Arts & Crafts/Nouveau designer, is best known for his buildings and interiors, but also created stained glass. It's great stuff and very distinctive, but stripped-down, so it might be a good model for a first attempt.

I like your idea. Go with it.

Thanks for all the inspiration, folks. I'll post a pic of the finished product in a few months.