Jeff Hitch e-mailed us from Mission Viejo in California with a question about silver stain:
Can you please give me some tips on how to paint with silver stains? I have been using vinegar and brushes with no metal (since I understand there’s an active ingredient in the stain which corrodes the metal). They paint OK but they just don’t flow as well as other types of paints. Also, I can’t get them to gradate very well. Can you help?
Yes.
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 for tracing lines.
Do you know if this is so?
Ivo de Croock wrote to us from Antwerp, Belgium, and asked what we meant by the term “fire-polishing”.
Cindy Whitehead from Cleburne, Texas wrote to say her first silhouettes had blistered in the kiln when they were fired.
What went wrong?