Comments on: Stained Glass Painting with Nib and Oil http://www.glassanddesign.com/2009/09/14/stained-glass-painting-with-nib-and-oil/ Stained Glass Painting Techniques, Projects and Ideas for Architectural Stained Glass from the Williams and Byrne Casebook Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laura Goff Parham http://www.glassanddesign.com/2009/09/14/stained-glass-painting-with-nib-and-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Laura Goff Parham Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:27:32 +0000 http://www.glassanddesign.com/?p=1709#comment-572 I also use pine oil which is sometimes called squeegie oil. It will create a thicker heavier line. It works with nib as well as with a brush. The oil badgers well... it creates a smoothe even layer of paint. It works well when using enamels. I love your sites. You do not find information like this anywhere else. Most artists will not share their 'secrets'. I have sent some of my fellow painters to this site. Thanks! Laura Goff Parham SOTAGLASS.com I also use pine oil which is sometimes called squeegie oil. It will create a thicker heavier line. It works with nib as well as with a brush. The oil badgers well… it creates a smoothe even layer of paint. It works well when using enamels.

I love your sites. You do not find information like this anywhere else. Most artists will not share their ‘secrets’. I have sent some of my fellow painters to this site. Thanks!

Laura Goff Parham
SOTAGLASS.com

]]> By: Stephen Byrne http://www.glassanddesign.com/2009/09/14/stained-glass-painting-with-nib-and-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Stephen Byrne Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:47:12 +0000 http://www.glassanddesign.com/?p=1709#comment-508 Hello Angela! I like your point that it depends on the effect that you are going for. And we too, at the studio, are hugely enjoying the glass painting that we do with bistre brown: there's something more earthy and sensitive and responsive about it - whereas black is so unambiguous and final. Thanks also for mentioning "Q-tips" (these are what we here in the UK call "cotton buds") and that it's also possible to shade with them - to pull and <em>draw</em> the oil-based paint: wonderful technique! All the best, Stephen Hello Angela!

I like your point that it depends on the effect that you are going for.

And we too, at the studio, are hugely enjoying the glass painting that we do with bistre brown: there’s something more earthy and sensitive and responsive about it – whereas black is so unambiguous and final.

Thanks also for mentioning “Q-tips” (these are what we here in the UK call “cotton buds”) and that it’s also possible to shade with them – to pull and draw the oil-based paint: wonderful technique!

All the best,
Stephen

]]> By: Angela http://www.glassanddesign.com/2009/09/14/stained-glass-painting-with-nib-and-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Angela Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:13 +0000 http://www.glassanddesign.com/?p=1709#comment-507 I have used a brush and a nib with a clove oil mixture and like both ways. I have decided that with me it depends on the effect that I'm going for. I also mix up larger amounts of the tracing black and clove oil and store it in a small glass container with a metal lid, so that I always have some on hand. I have also done this with bistre brown and that works well to if you don't want such a dark line as black. I myself enjoy using the oil more than water because it feels more natural to <em>me</em> (being from a Fine Art background) and you can blend and shade with a brush or even with a Q-tip. I have used a brush and a nib with a clove oil mixture and like both ways. I have decided that with me it depends on the effect that I’m going for. I also mix up larger amounts of the tracing black and clove oil and store it in a small glass container with a metal lid, so that I always have some on hand.

I have also done this with bistre brown and that works well to if you don’t want such a dark line as black.

I myself enjoy using the oil more than water because it feels more natural to me (being from a Fine Art background) and you can blend and shade with a brush or even with a Q-tip.

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