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Kiln-Fired Glass Painting – Four More Vital Tips

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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.

1. Racing to trace vs. pacing your tracing

First up, tracing – specifically, what you must do to trace well. I don’t care how many times we mention this because it’s so important. 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.

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Stained-Glass Painting Tools & Materials

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Checklist

Here’s a check-list for anyone who is starting out as a stained-glass painter:

  1. See below for details about glass paint and mixing bowl, gum Arabic, media (water and/or oil), light box, palettes, palette knives, paint covers, painting bridge / arm rest, jam jars, badger blender, wide narrow brushes, tracing brushes, various sticks, needles, scrubs, kiln, kiln trays and kiln controller.
  2. There are many articles and videos on this site: see here for a quick tour.
  3. Download and study our hands-on guide to kiln-fired stained glass painting – it’s packed with recipes, techniques, step-by-step projects and the kind of common sense you’ll only get by working with a successful studio.
  4. Get the free newsletter – each week you’ll get a quick tip that will help your stained glass painting: join here now