In the studio this week, we’re painting column after column for the tycoon’s stained glass skylights.
Our sequence is:
- Undercoat
- Trace
- Strengthen
- Flood
- Highlight
- Etc. etc.
In other words, the lines are put down in two layers – steps 2 and 3 – not in one go.
A column from the tycoon's skylights - undercoat and (copy-)traced only (strengthening comes next)
Now it isn’t mandatory to do this. It’s certainly possible to do the lines just in one go. Sometimes that’s what you must do.
And right now I just want to have a brief discussion with you about how to think about this question: whether to trace (with the glass on top of the design) and then strengthen (with the design on one side), or whether to trace and strengthen in one go …
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It is not every day you sit in a tycoon’s boardroom (nice Gothic lion-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 tycoon growled)
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 …
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Here’s a useful link to 19 glass painting strategies you can use right now. From undercoating to softening and from blocking in to modelling. You’ll find the 19 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.
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…]
A golden stained glass starting point
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” …
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