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Stained glass painting techniques

How to bring your Glass Paint back to Life

February 25, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques
How to remix dried paint

OK so you know how to make your lump of paint as you discover in Part 1 as well as in a 10-minute online video demonstration.
You’ve also found out the benefits of diluting it a little at a time to make the consistency and darkness of paint that you need for your next sequence of [...]

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Stained Glass Painting with Oil – How many Layers can You paint in a single Firing?

February 5, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques

There is a mind-numbingly irritating consensus which insists that stained glass paint should be fired between successive layers. This silly idea is found in any number of so-called instructional books on stained glass painting techniques.
It’s wrong, of course. – And here’s a short wordless video which – ahem! – proves the point!

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Stained Glass in the “Financial Times” – It’s all happening Here (and not at Davos)

January 26, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques

Printed on light salmon – well, pink – paper, last Saturday’s “Financial Times” was most insistent on a picture of the silver stained acid-etched rose window that we made for Darley Anderson, the literary agent, a little time ago.
 
Ours is a small image. But it keeps illustrious company. Namely, the Fudomae apartment block in Tokyo.
To [...]

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Stained Glass Painting Video Demos – Because it’s Always Better to Watch and Learn!

January 22, 2010 Announcements

We’ve just published 10 new stained glass video demonstrations.
Subscribers can watch these online videos as often as they want. They can also download them as MP4 files and watch them on a suitable device wherever they choose.

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Stained Glass Painting with Silver Stain – Why the Consensus (as so often) is Plain Wrong

January 7, 2010 Stained glass painting techniques

In which you will discover how to use silver stain to a most dramatic effect

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The Predictable Unpredictability of Silver Stain

December 8, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
Silver stain

Nietzsche advocated living dangerously – once urging us to build our houses on the very slopes of fiery Mount Vesuvius. But it’s important not to go too far in this direction …

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The Patron Saint of Housewives – How to Paint her Face

November 30, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
How to paint a stained glass head

Now with 96 minutes of online video for you to watch
There’s a useful forum called AllExperts.com – the “oldest and largest free Q&A service on the Internet”. And we are amongst the various people who answer questions from around the world on stained glass painting. So last week we got a interesting question from Montreal [...]

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The Expert Assistant’s Assembly

October 27, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
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As many of you saw on our live Twitter feed from the studio – see right, “It’s Happening Right Now …” – our itinerant expert assistant joined us last week from the Isle of Arran (just off the west coast of Scotland).

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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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