Learn how to do all your glass painting, front and back, with water and oil in just one firing.
Williams & Byrne and PELI Glass present a 2-day intensive workshop for experienced glass painters “The Glass Painter’s Method: Paint Better / Fire Less”.
Saturday 30 June – Sunday 1 July 2012: Zoetermeer, Netherlands.
This workshop includes 12 hours of intensive practice and demonstration, all glass, glass paints, silver stains, and firings used in the workshop, workshop notes and 8 designs, bonus kit of pre-glazed lead came, discounts on all PELI purchases, lunches and refreshments.
PLUS get our latest DVD – “The Master & the Beast” – free.
7 places left (3 taken already).
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Grind a lot, and don’t add too much water:
That’s the secret. Just add some gum Arabic and a little water. Then grind and mix and grind and press some more. That’s how you make a perfect lump of glass paint.
Now for the fascinating proof.
The life and times of a 21st century glass painting studio
In 2004 I set up a studio with one partner, David. This was a design and glass painting studio, which, having run through more embarrassing names than we can remember, we christened “Williams” (after David first, because he could paint) “& Byrne” (after me, because I could copy).
Glass painting: it’s not an easy way to make a living.
But it is a great way.
I don’t mean women, cigars in bathtubs full of champagne, and private jets.
Though the last time I flew to see our client on the shores of Lake Geneva, I tried to board the airplane with a glass cutter in my pocket.
That was … fun.
A case study about stained glass design
Just in from a loyal newsletter follower, Dorothy Collard, who writes:
There’s so much I want to ask you, but I’ll start with the Literary Agent’s front door. – Just how did you do it?
How? There are several answers here. And one answer – as some of you will remember – is that I got stubborn and refused to put up with bad smells in the studio.
