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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On a Glazing Bench, darkly

December 3, 2009 Stained glass conservation

I’m not bitter … but, in this country, a great quantity of medieval stained glass was destroyed by the twin ravages of Thomas Cromwell and the English Civil War.

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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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Piet Mondrian and Stained Glass

November 5, 2009 Stained glass design

Here’s an interesting story from our our colleague, Ebel Rispens, who lives in Groningen in The Netherlands.
It’s in response to our recent post about sunlight and stained glass design.
Ebel writes:
It’s a fact that Piet Mondrian never ever made or designed a stained glass window.
And do you know why?
He refused to have anything to do [...]

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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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A Geometric Solution

October 23, 2009 Stained glass design
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The Journalist Rings
Bless her, she’d been asked to write an article for next February’s Homes & Gardens (and she’d rung us five months early because she knew how busy we get …):
“I’m writing about buying and using stained glass and I’ve been looking at your website with great interest …
(What a lovely journalist, I thought.)
… [...]

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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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