As many of you saw on our live Twitter feed from the studio – see “What’s Happening in the Studio Today“, right – our itinerant expert assistant joined us last week from the Isle of Arran (just off the west coast of Scotland).
From the category archives:
Stained glass painting techniques
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 [...]
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 [...]
Essential Glass Painting Check-List Here’s a check-list for anyone who’s starting out as a stained glass painter: Keep in touch with us 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 [...]
