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Watch This Video About How To Revive Your Hake

And organise your palette

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I’m sure this scene’s familiar – it’s how your palette often looks before you start:

  • Your lump of paint is under a small bowl.
  • Your reservoir of left-over paint is under a larger one.

And your “applicator brush” – your hake – is clean and dry.

So yes, I’m sure you’ll recognise this sight:

Hake and stained glass palette at the start of the day

Meanwhile, this is where you want to be before you start to paint:

Hake and stained glass paint

It’s different: yes indeed.

Now your hake is a wonderful brush.

But it’s like a teenager: there’s a knack to waking it up and getting it ready for a day’s work.

A method …

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Working your Paint, Using your Palette

Stained-glass painting: watch this high-speed, time-lapse video:

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One of the biggest obstacles every glass painter faces – you, me, Stephen, everyone – is getting your paint just right. 

It’s all too easy to try to rush this task and make mistakes.

And one reason someone might rush the mixing is because they misjudge the time which the professional takes.

They imagine the professional gets it right in ‘no time’.

What really happens is, the professional might certainly rush the painting (because they can).

But they will never rush the mixing and adjusting (because no one can and also paint glass beautifully).