Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets from an English Stained Glass Studio

Kiln-Fired Glass Painting – Learn New Techniques, Save Time, Save Money, and Enjoy it More

Here are Williams & Byrne’s detailed guides to classical glass painting techniques | and glass painting and shading with oil | plus silver staining with oil.

Techniques
Recipes
Designs
Projects and case-studies
Demonstrations

All of it practical and very useful:

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Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets: Part 1 – the Classical Foundations

How you can trace, shade, flood & highlight (front & back) in a single firing & why you need a lump of paint to do this (not a teaspoonful)

Kiln-fired stained glass painting - the classical foundations

The classical foundations: if you’re new to kiln-fired glass painting, you’ll learn the core techniques.

If you’ve already done some glass painting, this ebook gives the answers you won’t find in other books like the best way to mix your paint (you need a lump and not a teaspoonful), how to trace fine lines, and how to shade before you trace, which also lets you highlight, and so finish your work in just one firing.

Topics include: how to mix perfect glass paint and how to store it, other media you can use, what to do when your glass paint dries out/how to revive dried glass paint, the importance of the palette knife and 9 ways to use it, how to organize your palette, how to undercoat and flood, how to trace and how to strengthen, shading and matting, plus highlighting. Also, painting the back of your glass, and adding texture / giving depth.

Designs include: 12 geometric tiles, shell, bell, rose, leaf, fish, bee, gargoyle and tower.

Online videos include: how to mix glass paint and water (9 minutes), how to prepare your palette for painting (6 minutes), how to paint an undercoat (10 minutes), how to copy-trace (6 minutes), how to strengthen and reinforce (7 minutes), how flood part #1 (8 minutes) and part #2 (4 minutes), plus a start-to-finish overview (10 minutes).

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You get a 78-page PDF ebook / workbook with recipes, techniques and tips, plus 24 designs for you to copy, plus 9 online video demonstrations.

Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets, Part 1 – the Classical Foundations: $14.97 – download now

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Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets: Part 2 – Shading with Oil

How you can use oil to shade leisurely & effortlessly & still do all your glass painting (front & back) in a single firing

Advanced glass painting - using oil for gorgeous lines and subtle shadows

This ebook is for any glass painter who is looking for new and effective ways to shade / matt their painted glass.

It contains a collection of magnificent oil-based techniques which will allow you to add more depth, brilliance and subtlety to your painting than ever before. Beautiful, yet simple to use once you know how. All is revealed in this PDF ebook.

Topics include: the 7 key benefits of working with oil, how to prepare a perfect batch of oil-based glass paint and how to store it, the different media you can use, how to clean your brushes, firing – 4 key strategies for working with oil, how to use oil on top of unfired water-based paint and give your painting real depth.

As you’ll see, even with oil, you can still do all your glass painting, front and back, in just one firing. Saves time, saves money, looks gorgeous.

Designs include: flowers, lion, moth, duck, gargoyle, phoenix and 5 other heraldic beasts, plus a full-sized stained glass face.

Online videos include: how to paint a full-sized stained glass face: overview (15 minutes), how to prepare your glass (4 minutes), undercoating (3 minutes), copy-tracing a face (10 minutes), half-tones (6 minutes), softening part #1 (5 minutes), softening part #2 (9 minutes), reinstatement and blocking in (10 minutes), highlighting (9 minutes), painting with oil (7 minutes), highlighting in oil (9 minutes), how to soften mid-tones (7 minutes), reinstated traced lines (9 minutes), final highlights and final shading with oil (10 minutes)

You get a 64-page PDF ebook with recipes, techniques and tips plus 12 designs for you to copy (with step-by-step photos), plus 14 online video demonstrations.

You have a risk-free money-back 60-day guarantee to use this information and convince yourself about its value.

Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets, Part 2 – Shading with Oil: $14.97 – download now

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Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets: Part 3 – Silver Staining with Oil

How you can trace, blend, shade & flood from a reliable batch that keeps for months (and why water or vinegar are no good for this)

Save time, save money - use silver stain and oil: looks lovely and is also far more predictable

If you’re new to silver stain, this ebook will spare you so much time, money and disappointment.

If you’re someone who uses stain with water or vinegar, then this ebook will show you a new approach with oil – it’ll completely change the way you work and make things so much easier.

Yes indeed, silver stain is typically a “!!!#^X^??!X!!!” to use – if you’ve tried it with water or vinegar, you’ll know what I mean. “Hard to trace with, impossible to shade and blend, unpredictable in the kiln …” And yet it shouldn’t be like that. In fact, when I use stain, it isn’t like that at all.

You just need to use the right media, and handle them appropriately. Here’s where you get a head start on everyone else …

Topics include: how to mix an oil-based batch of silver stain that lasts for ages, plus … tracing, shading, blending and flooding with silver stain, how to find the best firing schedule for your kiln, step-by-step project and full-colour design.

Online video demonstrations include: how to mix stain and oil (12 minutes), a case-study (20 minutes), a live studio demonstration (6 minutes), how to prepare your brushes (2 minutes), how to mix whatever consistency of stain you need (2 minutes), a useful variation on the core technique (6 minutes), 3 extra demonstrations (9 minutes), a case-study using tracing, oil-based shadows and also silver stain (18 minutes).

You get a 20-page ebook with full instructions and techniques plus 8 online video demonstrations.

Just one ounce (28 grams) of stain can easily cost you $15 – yes, it costs too much to waste. Don’t waste stain, don’t waste glass, don’t waste time. Get this guide and learn how to use your stain with oil.

Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets, Part 3 – Silver Stain and Oil: $14.97 – download now

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The Diamond Lights of Hampton Hall

A feature-length studio-based documentary about glass painting and silver staining with oil

You will see how to paint and silver stain these lovely windows

In this studio-based documentary, the glass painters Williams & Byrne are called to Hampton Hall whose owners ask them to design and paint two pairs of diamond stained glass windows for their dining room and staircase. This documentary shows you all the techniques to paint and silver stain the finished windows (see picture, left).

Subtitles and soundtrack only (no commentary). Running time: main feature (71 minutes), 3 bonus shorts (52 minutes). Also includes: 35 designs you can download and copy.

Digital version: $14.97 - watch online now (as often as you want)

DVD version: see here.

“The Diamond Lights DVD is wonderful. I can’t wait to try the techniques” (Steve McKelvey, Indiana, USA)

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“Simply gorgeous! So very well designed, with so much care – and so informative at the same time! They should teach like this in schools and universities – the world would look much brighter!” (Saskia Klute, Brussels, Belgium)

“Just finished watching The Diamond Lights of Hampton Hall. Thank you for putting it together. Yes, I love your written guides – but, seeing the procedures performed on the television, I absorbed and understood far more” (Scott Russell, Brampton, Canada)

“It was very good to see the consistency and also the quantity of paint prepared for use, almost immediately, for tracing and flooding. So, the way that you mix the paint with the brush on the pallet, something that it would be difficult to explain only with words” (Fábio Leite de Moura Fonseca, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

“Every time I watch I notice something new and I am enjoying putting the techniques to use” (Hector MacSween, Glasgow, Scotland)

“Thanks so much for The Diamond Lights of Hampton Hall. I’m so glad I bought it as it’s so clear to watch and learn from and so easy to access. Also because it’s just so great to watch the project from beginning to end and see all your beautiful painting along the way” (Sara Burns, Telford, England)

“I’ve spent the last week watching The Diamond Lights of Hampton Hall – brilliant! … You see the consistency of the paint. You see the friction of the brush passing through it. You see the paint flowing off the brush. You see the pressure you are using or the lightness of touch. This cannot be conveyed in a still image. I could also watch what you were doing on the palette. It was so helpful and has increased my confidence” (Louise Clarkson, Stroud, England)

If you can’t see the video, please click here

“I look forward to watching it again and again and again!” (Kam Kumar, London, England)“I watched the The Diamond Lights this evening (for, no doubt, the first time) and have already picked up lots of tips. My husband (formerly a lecturer in electronics) watched it with me and thought it was one of the best instructional videos he has ever seen” (Dorothy Collard, Basingstoke, England)

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“The Diamond Lights arrived this pm and I put it into the laptop and sat transfixed for the whole program! Way to go! This is a totally professional presentation and so captivating! I could not stop or pause it till it was over. All I can say is WOW! And I have read the guides regarding the tracing, palette, highlights, staining etc. but to see it start to finish is so completely different. The old saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ is absolutely right! This is a hit! No, a home-run! I will watch this over and over to glean every speck of information you so wonderfully placed there for me to get. I am amazed. Thank you!” (Jack Allen, LaPorte, Indiana, USA)

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The Heraldic Arms of Hampton Hall

A feature-length studio-based documentary: how to paint a stained glass coat of arms

You'll see how to paint and silver stain this stained glass coat of arms

Williams & Byrne are commissioned to paint a stained glass coat of arms (see picture, left).

In this film you see: how to undercoat a large piece of glass | copy-tracing and keeping glass aligned with your design | strengthening and shaping | flooding | highlighting and how to decorate the highlights | using oil to prevent burn-off in the kiln | adding colour | more about silver stain and oil | how to guarantee your paint and stain will fire exactly as you want it to (bonus feature #1) | assembling and soldering the coat of arms (bonus feature #2).

Music and commentary (comes with PDF transcript). Running time: 91 minutes.

Also comes with coat of arms design for you to copy, plus a transcript of the spoken commentary (PDF download).

Digital version:$14.97 - watch now (as often as you want)

DVD version: see here

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If you can’t see the video, please click here

“the ‘how to’ details are absolutely impressive and invaluable” (Brigitte Bleses, Ontario, Canada) “An excellent set of DVDs, well worth the price” (David Gomm, author of The Stained Glass Newsletter, Provo, Utah, United States)

“I have watched both films and I think they are wonderful. I love the way you have set the stage for painting, the music you’ve chosen, the clear and concise commentary – the drama of it all is amazing and ‘Performance’ (in more ways than one) perfectly describes what is taking place. It is great to be instructed in such an inspiring way, and I look forward to watching these films many more times!” (Chris Bates-Brownsword, North Plympton, Australia)

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