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    Stephen Byrne

    Designer, glass painter, writer

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    Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets from an English Stained Glass Studio

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    Online Videos

    Part 1

    “How you can trace, shade, flood & highlight (front and back) in a single firing, and why you absolutely need a lump of paint to do this (not a teaspoonful)”

    Get the e-book here

    Watch the videos here (password on page 1)

    Download the videos here (same password)

    Part 2

    “How you can use oil to shade effortlessly and leisurely and still do all your glass painting (front and back) in a single firing”

    Get the e-book here

    Watch the videos here (password on page 1)

    Download the videos here (same password)

    Part 3

    “How you can trace, blend, shade & flood from a reliable batch that keeps for months (& why water or vinegar are no good for this)”

    Get the e-book here

    Watch the videos here (password on page 1)

    Download the videos here (same password)

    Questions

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    Old Brushes, Old Recipes for Glass Paint and the Old Way of Painting as Much as Possible in a Single Firing

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    Background research

    This past week I’ve exchanged daily e-mails with a writer who is investigating how English stained glass painting was done mid-17th century.

    Old brush names

    First up, we talked about the old names for different sizes of tracing brush. None of this ‘size 0’ or 2 or 4 and so on. Rather: crow, duck, goose and swan. These were taken from the names of the birds whose quills were used to hold the hairs together. That was the old-fashioned way: much nicer than numbers, don’t you think? We also talked about this.

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    The Thickest, Darkest Paint of All

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    In a moment, you’ll find another excellent video demonstration for you to watch.

    And like last time, it’s from a documentary we made.

    We filmed this documentary between 8 a.m. and 10.10 a.m. one morning.

    So it’s shot in real time.

    Which means you see everything as it happens, minute by minute, technique by technique and – layer by layer.

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    The Master & the Beast

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    A Documentary about the Single-Firing Method

    Learn how to do all your painting, front and back, in just one firing

    The ‘single-firing’ method is where you trace, shade, flood and highlight in a single firing, front and also back.

    And you don’t just mix water with your glass paint; you also work with other powerful media like oil and propylene glycol.

    Then you fire your glass – just once.

    This single-firing method saves you time and money. It also improves the finish and appearance of your glass. We know, because we use it every day.

    Watch and learn from these step-by-step, close-up demonstrations. There are two of them: each one lasts 55 minutes – and you see exactly what to do.

    In fact it’s like you’re with us in our studio. The difference is, you can rewind and make us repeat our performance as often as you wish.

    IMPORTANT: see here because the more you know, the better you will paint.