We’re glad to hear your questions. They tell us what’s important to you – and we want to know, because your perspectives aren’t the same as ours. For instance, we design and paint to earn a living. Many of you do it because you love it. We love it too. But we also earn a living from it – it’s not the same. It can’t be.
Here’s a familiar theme: how to mix your glass paint.
Our approach is totally at odds with the recipes you read in many books and with what happens in most classes.
A few months ago, a student from Illuminate, mixing paint for the first time, accidentally made “soup”.
That is, runny paint.
So runny it was uncontrollable – impossible to work with.
“Help! What shall I do?” they asked.
And we replied. Because that’s how we work inside our online courses: we help you solve your problems.
Not just while the course lasts.
Also afterwards.
Now, if this happens to you – that you accidentally make soup: sloppy, runny paint – in brief the options are:
But, suspecting from our student’s words that the answer was “more gum”, we made a short film just for them to give them confidence.
After all, you might think, if you have runny paint to start with, how can you thicken it by adding liquid gum?
This film you’re about to watch is not the film we made for our student.
It’s a new film.
We’ve given it more context.
It’s all part of the glass painter’s method – the method which we’re thrilled to share with you, because learning how to paint stained glass is such a wonderful experience.
It’s why we wrote a book.
The Glass Painter’s Method, Book 1 is ready.
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 a small bit of glass like this for the palette
Continue here
This never works.
Anyway, done correctly, it takes less than 10 minutes to get your glass paint into perfect form.
Let me show you what I mean. It’s all here in a quick video.