Trace, Texture & Transparency: an introduction to glasspainting
5-day (6-night) residential retreat-workshop in Vermont USA
Upcoming course dates are listed on our 2025 schedule
Learn how to mix, thin and apply lead-free glasspaints with propylene glycol in this in-person workshop in Vermont USA. Propylene glycol creates a slow-drying glasspainting mixture that can be moved across the surface of the glass while wet to reveal the bright sparkle of unpainted glass, even while shading. The mixture allows for many different types of marks, including handwriting, brushwork, and textures like stone, wood, fur and fabric. My two-part mixing process makes it easy to control the paint's consistency and drying speed, and to paint solid black tracelines. Here's one minute of feedback from a past workshop, and here's a short video showing the paint's consistency. Each student returns to their own studio knowing how to achieve and test for optimum paint consistency, how to create a wide range of textural effects and tracing techniques to suit their own style of stained glass, plus notes, tools and glass they have painted during the workshop.
In-person workshops are immersive creative retreats that include playful group exercises, plenty of one-on-one connection and individual attention. We do multiple firings, discuss kilns, and I offer follow-up to those setting up a kiln or tweaking their own firings when they get home. Creative drawing skills are not required because students trace over images provided.
This in-person workshop costs $1,280 all-inclusive for five days tuition, six nights self-catered accommodation and materials. Maximum four students per workshop.
my stained glass & painting techniques
If you’re wondering how I came up with my recipe you can read this. More about my stained glass may be found at my blog showing work-in-progress on a wide variety of different projects. This method of glasspainting works on any smooth shiny two-dimensional or three-dimensional surface that may be fired, including glazed ceramics, fused or slumped glass, and blown glass objects. If you have questions please feel free to email me your phone number and we can chat.
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More information here, including hours, class size, scholarships, how to get here, and What to Expect from a workshop. Feel free to email me your mobile number and schedule a phone call, or join me at a stained glass Tea Time via Zoom to learn more.