Stained Glass Painting with Oil

by David Williams on February 5, 2010

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! [click to continue…]

Stained Glass in the “Financial Times”

by David Williams on January 26, 2010

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.

Tip: if you're going in a salmon pink newspaper, make sure you stand out

Tip: if you're going in a salmon pink newspaper, make sure you stand out

Ours is a small image. But it keeps illustrious company. Namely, the Fudomae apartment block in Tokyo.

To silver stain this rose window, we used oil as described here.

Stained Glass Painting Video Demos

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

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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The Predictable Unpredictability of Silver Stain

December 8, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
Silver stain

Nietzsche advocated living dangerously – once urging us to build our houses on the very slopes of fiery Mount Vesuvius. But it’s important not to go too far in this direction …

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On a glazing bench, darkly

December 3, 2009 Stained glass conservation

I’m not bitter … but, in this country, a great quantity of medieval stained glass was destroyed by the twin ravages of Thomas Cromwell and the English Civil War.

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How to Paint a Stained Glass Head

November 30, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
How to paint a stained glass head

There’s a useful forum called AllExperts.com – the “oldest and largest free Q&A service on the Internet”. And we are amongst the various people who answer questions from around the world on stained glass painting. So last week we got a interesting question from Montreal …

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Piet Mondrian and Stained Glass

November 5, 2009 Stained glass design

Here’s an interesting story from our our colleague, Ebel Rispens, who lives in Groningen in The Netherlands.
It’s in response to our recent post about sunlight and stained glass design.
Ebel writes:
It’s a fact that Piet Mondrian never ever made or designed a stained glass window.
And do you know why?
He refused to have anything to do [...]

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The Expert Assistant’s Assembly

October 27, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
Thumbnail image for The Expert Assistant’s Assembly

As many of you saw on our live Twitter feed from the studio – see right, “It’s Happening Right Now …” – our itinerant expert assistant joined us last week from the Isle of Arran (just off the west coast of Scotland).

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