The Glass Painter's Method by Williams & Byrne
Kiln-fired stained glass painting - fire less, paint better
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Your trace lines – your outlines, or contour lines – these lines can only be as good as your paint and tracing brush allow. So if your glass paint is badly mixed, or your tracing brush is wrongly shaped and loaded, your trace lines can’t be right. End of story.
That’s why today I want to show you the right and the wrong way to load your tracing brush. I just ask three minutes of your time, that’s all I’ll take, and in return you’ll see the difference.
Today four more useful reminders for you
Stephen’s four reminders last time were: oil, flooding, holding firm on pricing, and being comfortable when you work.
Now it’s my turn to look back on 2011 and also take you forward to the coming year.
First up, tracing – specifically, what you must do to trace well. I don’t care how many times we mention this (repetition works).
Every week we hear from people whose whole approach has drastically improved – just because they stopped racing to trace and started focusing more on their palette.
Take a few minutes to remind yourself about these four important glass painting techniques
The year is coming to an end.
Your best skills are needed more than ever.
That’s why it’s so important you look back and take account of all the things you’ve learned here these past 12 months.
So this week and next, we’ll select a handful of techniques you must master absolutely. I’ll start right now with …
A big problem you’ve maybe met is how, with the design in front of you, you want to rush and hurry and get it finished.
And yet …
By way of saying “thank you” for all your helpful comments on our last post, we’ve made you a new, exclusive video demonstration.
Stained glass tracing: here’s how to think about it in a very different, useful way …
I remember, I was doing my apprenticeship, the question always was, “How much can you paint in a day?”
What a bad, mad question. [click to continue…]
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.
