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.
What do you want to learn?
Traditional stained glass painting – you’ll find the core techniques right here.
Your guides are a great help for us in our studio (Ab Evenhuis, Veldhoven, Netherlands)
This is also the best place if you want to get really good at tracing, shading and highlighting.
It’s also great to work with oil because oil is a lovely way to shade.
You’ve given me a gift I cannot repay: I have wanted so much to get good instruction, and now at last I have (Kara Unland, California, US)
See here for glass painting with oil and also how to paint a stained glass face.
Then there’s silver stain, which most people mix with water or vinegar, which is crazy because it costs you time and money and also wrecks your brushes. Go here for this useful guide to using silver stain with oil.
Your material is so much easier to understand than other books I have seen (Sonya Conlin, Kent, England)
We’ve saved the studio so much money since abandoning water and taking up with stain and oil. You can do the same.
Everything comes with a risk-free guarantee.
Thank you for your very impressive and helpful material (Claire O’Halloran, West Kerry, Ireland)
All the best,
The commission is yours (the tycoon growled) if, within seven days, you can forge me a convincing piece of ancient-looking painted glass. It would be nice if it were beautiful, but above all else it must look old.
The boardroom was littered with other makers’ samples – wallpaper, curtains, rugs, table-tops etc.
I could see the tycoon’s problem.
Frustrated with silver stain? Fed up with unpredictable and disappointing results?
There’s no need.
There is another way …
How to mix a reliable batch of stain which lasts for months: how to trace, blend, shade and flood with stain: what you must do to prepare your brushes for staining: how to dilute your batch of stain to make any consistency you want: how to find the right firing schedule for your kiln: how to extend the blending and shading capacity of your stain: and the correct way to hold and use a round-headed blender.
Plus a step-by-step project.
If you mix your stain with water or vinegar, or if you’re new to stain, this guide is for you, so see here right now.