The Fitting

by David Williams on March 8, 2010

Here’s a shot of the fitting … [click to continue…]

Today

by Stephen Byrne on March 6, 2010

It works, that’s what people say. They are astonished by the effect of the glass on the space around it.

Photographs come later – tonight some sleep.

Tomorrow

March 5, 2010 Stained glass case studies

You spend weeks and months on the design – moving from tiny black-and-white sketches to 1:10 half-toned approximations; and then onwards to a full-sized water-colour painting, plus a full-sized black-and-white tonal drawing (to give a clear instruction to us painters about where the light must pass through really clearly) …
And then you finally come to [...]

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How to bring your Glass Paint back to Life

February 25, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques
How to remix dried paint

OK so you know how to make your lump of paint as you discover in Part 1 as well as in a 10-minute online video demonstration.
You’ve also found out the benefits of diluting it a little at a time to make the consistency and darkness of paint that you need for your next sequence of [...]

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Stained Glass Plating – Poor Craftsmanship or Not?

February 15, 2010 Stained glass design

“Plating” is the leading up of two or more glasses of the same shape, one behind the other.
Here’s what E. Liddall Armitage has to say on the matter:
“Some artists resort to plating and even tend to boast about it, but it is best avoided” (Stained Glass, Leonard Hill Books Limited, London, 1960, p. 130).

He presents [...]

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Stained Glass Painting with Oil – How many Layers can You paint in a single Firing?

February 5, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques

There is a mind-numbingly irritating consensus which insists that stained glass paint should be fired between successive layers. This silly idea is found in any number of so-called instructional books on stained glass painting techniques.
It’s wrong, of course. – And here’s a short wordless video which – ahem! – proves the point!

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Stained Glass in the “Financial Times” – It’s all happening Here (and not at Davos)

January 26, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques

Printed on light salmon – well, pink – paper, last Saturday’s “Financial Times” was most insistent on a picture of the silver stained acid-etched rose window that we made for Darley Anderson, the literary agent, a little time ago.
 
Ours is a small image. But it keeps illustrious company. Namely, the Fudomae apartment block in Tokyo.
To [...]

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Stained Glass Painting Video Demos – Because it’s Always Better to Watch and Learn!

January 22, 2010 Announcements

We’ve just published 10 new stained glass video demonstrations.
Subscribers can watch these online videos as often as they want. They can also download them as MP4 files and watch them on a suitable device wherever they choose.

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Stained Glass Painting with Silver Stain – Why the Consensus (as so often) is Plain Wrong

January 7, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques

In which you will discover how to use silver stain to a most dramatic effect

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A Kiln Tray filled with Whiting

December 18, 2009 Stained glass painting tools

A colleague from Australia – wanting the smoothest possible surface for his kiln-fired painted stained glass – wrote and asked us how we prepared our trays …

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