To paint stained glass, sometimes you should too First the Process, second the Backstory, and then we’ll talk about the Why. 1: the Process The sea-horse you see above: You apply a wash of paint, and blend. (“Paint mixed with…
The Glass Painter's Method
We've just published an excellent video on how to make lovely highlights: But not just highlights like you see above. Also softened highlights - that is, how to shade your highlights as you see below: To get the video, all…
A slow-motion video for you: For those of you who have Grip, we've just published a useful demonstration of stained glass tracing. It's slow-motion, close-up and with 3 cameras so you see everything you need to see. Here's a clip…
This is the true story of how my first teacher showed me how to mix my paint. I did what she said. I wasted a year. This is what she said: Take glass like this for the palette Continue here.
How to hold the hake brush and badger blender What to do now: If you don't have your own copy of Grip, you can get it here. If you like this video, you'll find many more inside our foundation course…
We've just begun the final quarter of 2017. And so I'd love to talk with you our plans for the remainder of this year and all the next. There are four components. They're in this video here: If you've an…
An email from Tom M. “My question concerns both tools and technique. It seems you usually paint on the light table. So how do you ensure continuity of technique, with adjacent panels being neither too dark nor too light, without…
Shading used to take a lot of time and mean several, sometimes many firings. There's nothing wrong with this: why should beautiful effects be quick and easy to achieve? But shading also used to be a worrying experience: "Has it…
Shadow gives you a ton of step-by-step exercises so you become confident with every aspect of shading with Propylene glycol. It also includes 6 case studies where you see how we use glycol in our own work. This second trailer for…