How To Mix, Test, Store & Revive Your Glass Paint
Mixing great paint to start with is the quickest way to improve the way you paint stained glass.
When you work with well-mixed paint, you’ll find it so much easier to trace and shade.
Yes, it still takes skill to paint a beautiful line.
But you’re no longer fighting with the paint: you’ve learned to mix the paint in such a way that it will help you.
Inside this course you’ll learn everything about mixing perfect paint.
You can join here.
How To Paint Stained Glass
This is an online foundation course.
You start at the beginning.
And by the end you’ll arrive here:
The course is called Illuminate.
Inside Illuminate you will:
- See the key techniques close-up
- Learn through structured exercises
- Experience a short intensive apprenticeship.
Each week you receive a new module, with new demonstrations, new case studies and new exercises for you to practise.
You can return to a module as often as you want, whenever you want.
The whole course lasts 8 weeks.
You can return to modules whenever you want, even long after the course has finished: they’re yours to keep and use.
We run this course twice a year:
- January 16th – March 6th
- July 2nd – August 21st.
You can join the January course right now.
How To Work With Silver Stain
Most books say to mix your stain with water or vinegar.
But there are so many problems with this method.
For instance, it will rot your tools, release a lot of harmful dust, slow you down, and often wreck your painted glass.
That’s why we suggest you mix you stain with oil or glycol.
Inside this course, you’ll learn how that’s done, plus how to shade, flood and even trace with silver stain.
We teach this course twice a year:
- March 21st – April 11th
- September 5th – September 24th.
Details here: existing students can take this course from January 2nd.
How To Shade Stained Glass
Shading on stained glass is often worrying or slow.
The good news is, it doesn’t have to be like that.
Not with the techniques inside this course: Shadow is a treasure-chest of step-by-step demonstrations, case studies and exercises for you.
You learn to mix your paint with glycol (not water and gum Arabic), then – quickly and confidently – lay down lovely shadows.
And fire your glass just once.
We teach Shadow to students who are confident with tracing, flooding and highlighting (as you learn inside the foundation course Illuminate):
- April 26th – May 31st
- October 11th – November 15th.
You can read more here.
All courses come with a 60-day money-back guarantee.
“What happens when there are questions I want to ask you?”
That’s easy.
Send us an email and we’ll reply.
In fact we schedule the 3 big courses because:
- This gives you a clear path and
- Here in our studio, we can set aside time to give you the time you want.
It takes practise to get good at stained glass painting: when you put in the practise, we’ll be here to guide you.