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Four Techniques to Improve Your Glass Painting

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It’s a rough world out there. 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 …

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Live from the Studio – Day #4

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Oil: the case against … and the case for

It’s the fourth day of this intensive technique-focused glass painting course for our five long-haul students – four colleagues from different states of the USA, and one from Kuwait. (For the 90-second video intro, please see here.)

Yesterday and today: oil.

The case against oil: it’s smelly, and it’s messy. You need extra palettes and extra brushes. Students need to learn how, once the oil has seeped down and been absorbed by the unfired water-based paint beneath, the paint itself becomes fragile. And another thing: it’s a good idea to adjust the firing schedule so the volatile fumes can burn off and escape.

All in all it’s rather inconvenient. Hmmmm – no wonder it isn’t taught in college or class. Too much nuisance.

So, the case for oil is what, I wonder …

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Live from the Studio – Day #1

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Tracing and strengthening – how to mix perfect paint

It’s day #1 of an intensive five-day glass painting course for “long-haul” students who’ve travelled to our studio in Stanton Lacy (see my previous post for your nerve-jangling introduction and an absolutely breath-taking 90-second video).

The story so far …

Our students arrived two days ago to settle in and recover from their jet-lag. And today, refreshed, we went on a whirlwind and empowering tour of undercoating, tracing, strengthening and flooding – the foundations of traditional kiln-fired stained glass painting.

Now … we promised you various tips and updates live from the studio.

Today’s key tip is useful if:

  • You sometimes run into problems getting your tracing or strengthening paint to the perfect consistency; or
  • You teach glass painting and find your students adding too much water to their palette

Interested? Then let’s get going …