A Time-Saving Method Which Can Give You Time For More Important Things

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Today’s video is about saving time.

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Saving time is an unusual topic because normally our outlook is: time is here for each of us to do our best, however long it takes.

All the same, time is important. We must use it wisely.

And that’s precisely why we sometimes use short-cut methods to get us further than we’d otherwise be: so that we have more time for things which matter more.

Here’s one example in this video. We used it in the window which you see above. The time we saved meant we had more time for etching, painting, plating and for the complicated leading.

Anxious About Highlights?

Here's a simple 9-step plan

I understand why highlights worry many people. The lines and shadows demand a lot of patience, yet they’re only half the story. Till you’ve put the highlights in, your painted glass – however finely traced – is dull. It’s one-dimensional.

Softening the highlights on a stained glass owl

Highlights are the cure – as you can see above.

The problem is, highlights also have a risk. A big risk: if you do them badly, they will wreck your work.

Old palette knives make great leading knives

With the heavy use you give your palette knives, they wear out in a year or so. Indeed, ours sometimes snap. What then? The waste bin perhaps? No – like a come-back film star, they have a second life: they make great leading knives.

A Second Way To Shade Stained Glass Before You Trace

This is the same technique which won us a huge contract

Here it is, so you can use it also in your work

Last time you saw a simple way to shade stained glass before you trace. Here today you’ll find a second way.

Big reason this is important: shading gives life to your work – it matters to your audience.

The proof?

The proof is in this video, in a story Stephen tells.