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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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Gold

May 23, 2009 Questions and answers

Becky D., from Stoke-on-Trent, England, asked about gold paint.
“I am currently painting an art nouveau style lady for a centre insert into a leaded light. I’m mainly using antique browns and silver stain, possibly with some coloured enamel details for jewels. Now the customer has asked if it is possible to use gold on the [...]

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Stained Glass Painting Brushes

May 18, 2009 Questions and answers
Stained glass painting brushes

Doris Cultraro, from Rhinebeck, New York, US, writes and asks us about the kinds of brushes that we use for stained glass painting.
Here’s our list to get you started.

Wide narrow brushes for undercoats and overcoats
Blenders – large and small – which are mostly used to move wet paint around on the glass
Tracing brushes of various [...]

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Stained Glass Silhouettes

March 16, 2009 Questions and answers
Stained glass silhouettes - gargoyle

Cindy Whitehead from Cleburne, Texas wrote to say her first silhouettes had blistered in the kiln when they were fired.
What went wrong?

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