Practice,

Or "Why You Must Learn to Love your Light Box"

Part 1 – The experiment

Day 1: spent 10 minutes cleaning and painting undercoats on 8 small pieces of glass, then 17 minutes copy-tracing 2 images [just 2!] before deciding other things were “more important” than painting glass. Felt bored and distracted.

Day 2 … Day 3 … Day 4 … Day 5 …

Day 32: began with 60 minutes practice on light-box – thick lines, thin lines, dark lines, light lines, straight lines, squiggles, spirals, signature, various symbols, anything! Was surprised to learn an hour had passed. Then spent two hours painting a complicated roundel from start to finish without a rest. Very focussed. Couldn’t be distracted by “necessity” of other tasks.

Big change in just over a month, yes? That’s what this post is all about. It applies to everyone who doesn’t paint glass every day.

Is that you?

Grip #1

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The Price of Painted Stained Glass – It’s Not a One-Off Job

Last words before the summer holiday

I must be brief today because I must pack our bags and head off with my family for a week’s holiday on the rugged and dramatic coast of southern Wales.

All the same, I see from many comments on my last post how one particular question needs more attention.

Therefore even here, where we focus on glass painting techniques – even here, I won’t apologize for returning to the topic of price.

Price is one way of standing behind the value of your work. That’s why it’s so important we also discuss it here.