If You’ve Ever Wanted to Learn the Skills which Real Studios Use (but cannot share with you), then Here’s Your Chance

Kiln-fired stained glass painting – learn new techniques, save time, save money, and enjoy it more

What do you want to learn?

1. The key techniques

Is it the key techniques, like tracing, shading and highlighting?

Traditional stained glass painting – you’ll find the core techniques right here.

Your guides are a great help for us in our studio (Ab Evenhuis, Veldhoven, Netherlands)

This is also the best place if you want to get really good at tracing, shading and highlighting.

2. Glass painting with oil

What about stained glass painting with oil?

It’s also great to work with oil because oil is a lovely way to shade.

You’ve given me a gift I cannot repay: I have wanted so much to get good instruction, and now at last I have (Kara Unland, California, US)

See here for glass painting with oil and also how to paint a stained glass face.

3. How silver stain can dramatically improve the value and beauty of your work

Or silver stain, because I can save you time and money …

Then there’s silver stain, which most people mix with water or vinegar, which is crazy because it costs you time and money and also wrecks your brushes. Go here for this useful guide to using silver stain with oil.

Your material is so much easier to understand than other books I have seen (Sonya Conlin, Kent, England)

We’ve saved the studio so much money since abandoning water and taking up with stain and oil. You can do the same.

Everything comes with a risk-free guarantee.

Thank you for your very impressive and helpful material (Claire O’Halloran, West Kerry, Ireland)

All the best,

Stephen Byrne

 

If you want to know more about stained glass painting, you must get

Glass Painting Techniques & Secrets from an English Stained Glass Studio

More here

The Literary Agent’s “Wow!”

Part 2

A practical tale of silver stain

A while ago, I promised you the low-down on the techniques we used to silver stain a fine front door.

The client’s brief was, his window had to have the ‘”Wow!” effect’. And the ‘”Wow!” effect’ was what our client got. If you’re interested in the story of its design, you’ll find Part 1 here – and just be sure to come back afterwards to learn how it was done. 

Here now are the techniques. 

There’s nothing magical. But the effects you can achieve are extraordinary.

How To Use Your Badger Blender Properly By Blending From All Sides

From all sides: not just one

When your undercoat goes down, some people are too timid: they “badger” too gently. Like they were dusting a priceless china vase. Like they were frightened they might break their glass.

Like they don’t really want to blend.

But let me tell you this: that’s not the way to do it.

Working with Oil on Top of Unfired Glass Painting

Medieval stained glass dragon - your video demonstration

Hello!

Stephen Byrne

In a moment, you’ll find a 9-minute video for you to watch because it’s always useful to see how other glass painters do their work.

Here you see how we work with oil on top of unfired water-based glass paint.

This gets us the kind of ancient-looking glass which our client asked for.

All in just one firing.

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