From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Sunlight and Stained Glass Design

by Stephen Byrne on September 25, 2009

The light was heavenly here the other day – just as David was working on a water-colour design in our stained glass Studio #2 …

Stained Glass Painting with Nib and Oil

How to paint stained glass by Williams and Byrne, designers, painters and restorers of stained glass

by Stephen Byrne on September 14, 2009

In Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets from an English Stained Glass Studio, you discover an amazing technique for painting with oil-based stained glass paint on top of unfired – note this: unfired – water-based paint. If this technique is new to you, read more here.
This is the exact technique we use each day to achieve [...]

Stained Glass Tracing with Vinegar

by Stephen Byrne on September 7, 2009

Sue Sills wrote and asked us about mixing glass paint with white vinegar:
“I have only used water and gum for mixing tracing paint so far.
But I was recently told that you can use white vinegar instead of water and that it stopped the paint from drying out so quickly, thus making it better for tracing [...]