From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Stained Glass Painting Tools & Materials

June 26, 2009 Questions and answers

Essential Glass Painting Check-List
Here’s a check-list for anyone who’s starting out as a stained glass painter:

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Glass paint and mixing bowl, gum Arabic, media (water and/or oil), light box, palettes, palette knives, paint covers, painting bridge / arm rest, jam jars, badger blender, wide narrow brushes, tracing brushes, various sticks, needles, scrubs, [...]

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Fire-Polishing – What is It?

June 25, 2009 Questions and answers
Fire-polished stained glass

Ivo de Croock wrote to us from Antwerp, Belgium, and asked what we meant by the term “fire-polishing”.

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Stained Glass Painting with Lead-Free Paints

June 24, 2009 Questions and answers
Stained glass painting with lead-free paints

Tom Ansell wrote and asked us whether we’d used lead-free glass paints.
We hadn’t.
So we decided to give them a try.
And here’s what we discovered.
We used Reusche’s Series 5 tracing black (E401) and bistre brown (E402).
Now series 5 is flagged as lead and cadmium free, which is all good and fine. But we would remind you [...]

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