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This book will serve you well if:
From designers and painters Williams & Byrne, and featuring entries from the journal of the forgotten Victorian craftsman Nathaniel Somers, this book will demonstrate how few possessions you really need to paint stained glass.
This is Book 1 of The Glass Painter’s Method.
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Introduction: Foreword • Your three bonuses • To the reader • How this book is organised • It’s all about techniques
Part 1 – Line, Silhouette and Highlight
Introduction, checklist, overview
How to mix your paint: Glass paint • Water in a jar or bowl • Gum arabic • Your mixing bowl and palette • Spoons • The palette knives • Paint cover • Cloth and paper • Method
Prepare your glass: the undercoat: Quick reminder • Light box • Glass • The hake brush • The badger blender • Where you are now
Trace the design: The tracing brush • The painting bridge
Strengthen your trace-lines
Flood the border
Cut and soften highlights: The stick • A quiet word about scrubs and stipplers • Your ring finger
Review
Part 2 – Shadow
Introduction, checklist, overview
How to mix your paint
Prepare your glass: The brushes you’ll need • Prepare a wash of glycol • Apply the wash • Blend the wash • Remove the excess • And blend again
Make big shadows: The brushes you’ll need • Mix dark paint • Apply the paint
Embolden
The Highlights
Review
Reminder
Part 3 – Silver Stain: The Glorious Transformation
Introduction, checklist, overview
How to mix your stain
Tests
Method: The brushes you’ll need • Apply the stain
Water vs. oil or glycol
Glycol vs. oil: is one medium better than the other?
Review
Agathon’s journey
Part 4 – Miscellany
Health
How to clean your brushes
The kiln: Why you need a kiln • Different kinds of kilns • Our kilns at Williams & Byrne
Firing schedules: How to test a kiln • How we fire our glass paint • How we fire our stain • A principle • Conclusion
Enamels: a warning for beginners
Different sequences of techniques
The fish’s journey
How to trace, strengthen, flood and shade with just three brushes
How to get your three bonuses
Where to learn more
Appendix – The designs
How to use the designs
Small versions of the designs
Afterword
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