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    David Williams

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    More about the Badger Blender

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    Care and Maintenance

    This follows on from a recent post about the 5th benefit of undercoating, and also from “The Beastly Lion of Wolsey Towers” – episode #1, in which you saw how to undercoat a large piece of glass.

    Today, cleaning your badger.

    This is important because, dirty, your badger will wreck your matts and shadows.

    Clean, it will serve you wonderfully for life.

    So if your matts and shadows aren’t working, sure: it might be you’re being heavy-handed. All the same, your badger just might need a simple clean.

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    The Badger Blender

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    How can you blend and shade well if you don’t hold this brush correctly?

    This is the biggest thing people get wrong when they use a badger blender (the big flat one: not the small round one). They hold it delicately. They hold it as if it were a feather duster.

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    Technique

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    Stained glass painting

    These two demonstrations are amazing. I can say this without embarrassment because it’s another person’s work I’m talking about.

    Yes, it’s such a joy to get this insight into how another glass painter lives and earns their living – the techniques they use to get incredible results.

    So now it’s your decision whether to stop what you’re doing and see what you find out. Watch the first part here. And then you’ll find the second part right here.

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    Glass Painting and Hot Air

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    Why you don’t need a hair-dryer

    When you watch The Master & the Beast, you’ll see exactly how to do all your glass painting in a single firing, layer upon layer until your piece is finished.

    Now one important point about painting layer upon layer is: you wait for the previous layer to dry before you paint on top of it. The reason is, when you paint on wet paint, you risk damaging the layers underneath. That’s why you wait until the paint is dry – because the gum Arabic will set. So a question I’m often asked is, Do I use a hair-dryer?