Free PDF download
Several of you have written to ask about painting black letters onto stained glass, and how to do this really accurately …
Several of you have written to ask about painting black letters onto stained glass, and how to do this really accurately …
Gum Arabic isn’t essential. (Patrick Reyntiens, for example, barely uses it at all.) It’s just that, without it, our dried, unfired paint would be extremely fragile.
Also, we would not be able to shade and matt as we want to – that is, all in one firing, including oil-based paint on top.
Now stained glass painting stockists mainly stock gum Arabic in powdered form.
But I prefer the liquid, and here is why:
Liquid gum Arabic is the same medium that water-colour painters use.
So just find a good supplier of traditional art materials, and they will help you.
Ours is made by Winsor & Newton.
Best,