From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Sunlight and Stained Glass Design

September 25, 2009 Stained glass design
Sunlight at stained glass studio #2

The light was heavenly here the other day – just as David was working on a water-colour design in our stained glass Studio #2 …

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Stained Glass Painting with Nib and Oil

September 14, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
Stained glass bird painted with nib and oil

In Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets from an English Stained Glass Studio, you discover an amazing technique for painting with oil-based stained glass paint on top of unfired – note this: unfired – water-based paint. If this technique is new to you, read more here.
This is the exact technique we use each day to achieve [...]

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Stained Glass Painting – Silver Stain

September 12, 2009 Stained glass media
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Jeff Hitch e-mailed us from Mission Viejo in California with a question about silver stain:
Can you please give me some tips on how to paint with silver stains?
I have been using vinegar and brushes with no metal (since I understand there’s an active ingredient in the stain which corrodes the metal).
They paint OK but they [...]

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Stained Glass Tracing with Vinegar

September 7, 2009 Stained glass media

Sue Sills wrote and asked us about mixing glass paint with white vinegar:
“I have only used water and gum for mixing tracing paint so far.
But I was recently told that you can use white vinegar instead of water and that it stopped the paint from drying out so quickly, thus making it better for tracing [...]

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