Kiln-Fired Stained Glass Painting - Your Best Guide
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It is not every day you sit in a tycoon’s boardroom (nice Gothic-clawed chairs, by the way) and receive a challenge:
“The commission is yours if, within seven days, you can forge me two fine pieces of ancient-looking glass …”
The boardroom was littered with other makers’ samples – wallpaper, curtains, rugs, table-tops …
I could see the tycoon’s problem – I’m quick like that …
Here’s a useful link to 17 glass painting strategies you can use right now. From undercoating to softening and from blocking in to modelling. You’ll find the 17 insider strategies right here.
How many do you use each time you paint stained glass?
They’re all right here.
A colleague from the Netherlands asks us something really useful:
“As a novice, I have a burning question.
Say I experiment with your technique: so I paint an undercoat and then copy-trace the main lines from the design.
Now what if I make a mistake during tracing. What is the best procedure for correcting this mistake without ruining the work I’ve already done?”
This is such an excellent question, we’ll approach the answer from several different directions.
First, though, let’s step back a bit and give some context to the question. [click to continue…]
As a visual prompt to questions you might want to ask, we’ve now added a gallery of some recent stained glass painting.
To see the gallery, just click here.
Following on from David’s provocative tip about painting with darkness, I’m going to make my own contribution with some clips I filmed while he was painting St. Martha’s head. Click here to watch the video demonstration
We’ve just published 10 new stained glass video demonstrations.
Subscribers can watch these online videos as often as they want. And where they want (technology permitting …). [click to continue…]
In which you can discover an invaluable technique for using silver stain for a most dramatic effect!
A kind soul commented here the other day that our work was “stunning”.
We salute this generosity of spirit.
And also we wish to add a “but” …
A colleague from Australia – wanting the smoothest possible surface for his kiln-fired painted stained glass – wrote and asked us how we prepared our trays … [click to continue…]
