Trace & Texture: an introduction to kiln-fired glasspainting
November 4th - 8th 2024, 5-day/6-night residential retreat and workshop in Vermont USA
This workshop offers an opportunity to learn to mix, thin and apply lead-free glasspaints with propylene glycol, a common food additive. As a glasspainting medium propylene glycol creates a slow-drying mixture that can be moved across the surface of the glass while wet, allowing many different types of marks including handwriting, brushwork, and textures like stone, wood, fur and fabric. A two-part mixing process makes it easier 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. In class we do group exercises using traditional and non-traditional brushes and applicators. No creative drawing skills are necessary because we trace over existing images. I offer an easy method for making sure that the consistency is good, plus notes and take-home tools. 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.
There are four students per workshop, five days of classes, and six nights accommodation. The cost is $1,280 and includes all materials, tuition and accommodation. Here's some general information about workshops including how to get here, scholarships, payment, what to expect and more. 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.
about my glasspainting techniques and work in stained glass
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.
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Here’s some general information about workshops including how to get here, scholarships, payment, what to expect and more. Watch one minute video of student residence. If you'd like a heads-up about upcoming workshops and new blog posts, please email me or click Follow.
Glass painted by students during Trace & Texture workshops in Vermont