Kiln-Fired Stained Glass Painting - Your Best Guide
Just in from a loyal newsletter follower, Dorothy Collard, who writes:
There’s so much I want to ask you, but I’ll start with the Literary Agent’s front door. – Just how did you do it?
How?
There are several answers here.
And one answer – as some of you will remember – is that I got stubborn and refused to put up with bad smells in the studio … [click to continue…]
So say today you visit this website right here in front of you -
Welcome!
“Kiln-Fired Stained Glass Painting – Your Best Guide”, it says at the top.
Yes, the ancient, proper craft.
Now – there are just two possibilities …
It is not every day you sit in a tycoon’s boardroom (nice Gothic-clawed chairs, by the way) and receive a challenge:
“The commission is yours if, within seven days, you can forge me two fine pieces of ancient-looking glass …”
The boardroom was littered with other makers’ samples – wallpaper, curtains, rugs, table-tops …
I could see the tycoon’s problem – I’m quick like that …
Frustrated with silver stain? Fed up with unpredictable and disappointing results?
There’s no need.
There is another way …
For a quick guide to our firing schedules, click here and scroll down to the free guides on this page of glass painting guides.
When anyone’s always been told to do something in a particular way, and then suddenly they think:
“But wait a moment, this doesn’t make sense!”
And they head off in a new direction and things work out for them there – well, the story’s interesting.
It’s interesting because it shows how all of us can think for ourselves, and also work together with like-minded souls, to do the kinds of things we’re meant to do …
Here’s a quick proof – if proof is needed – of how it’s possible to trace with silver stain.
And not just trace, but also shape your strokes, then gently blend them … [click to continue…]
To get a deep, pure golden colour, it’s also great when you know how to flood your silver stain directly into selected areas – with no messy clean-up afterwards …
