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Stained glass media

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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Stained Glass Painting – Gum Arabic

February 3, 2009 Stained glass media

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.

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