Glass Painting Designs


Book Description

With easy-to-understand instructions and colorful, innovative designs for vases, jars, frames, window borders, and more, beginners will find this popular art form very accessible. Renowned glass artist Janet Eadie provides simple tips for outlining designs in lead, applying colored paint, and everything readers will need to create an exquisite glass painting.




More Glass Painting Designs


Book Description

Full of easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful patterns. More Glass Painting Designs provides additional inspiration for everyone who wants to create colorful and innovative works of art on glass.




The Glass Painter's Method


Book Description

This book will serve you well if: You're new to traditional stained glass painting and are uncertain which brushes, paints and tools to buy - this book will tell you what you want to know. The accompanying 12 free videos will also introduce you to the key techniques. You've painted stained glass for a while but still worry "Is it my lack of skill which is the problem, or is it my brushes, paints and tools which stop me achieving the results I want?" - this book will guide you to the answer. And the 23 free designs will give you an excellent resource with which to practise. You're a teacher who wants your students to experience the joy of mastering this wonderful craft - this book will show you the smallest, most effective set of brushes, paints and tools to place before them so they can triumph. 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.




Reverse Glass Painting


Book Description

Basic skills from an expert. 14 projects with patterns provided. Full-color, step-by-step photographs.




The Glass Painting Book


Book Description

Taking inspiration from the luminous beauty of stained glass, painting on glass is a simple yet dramatically effective decorative technique which involves little cost and, with the help of this book, can be enjoyed by all artistic abilities. A complete introduction to the craft, it contains a complete guide to materials and techniques, a host of projects to try, a library of trace-off motifs and an invaluable trouble shooting section. Decorate plates, glasses, bottles, trinket boxes, mirrors, picture frames, vases, cabinet doors, storage jars and many other items with the ideas presented here. Detailed step-by-step instructions are accompanied by specially commissioned colour photographs of the projects to ensure success every time. Once you have started painting on glass, you will find it hard to stop, and will never look at a plain glass surface in the same way again!




Mastering the Art of Fused Glass Painting


Book Description

This book is the sequel and includes advanced techniques in fused glass enamel painting beyond the fundamentals. It is a workbook style format that allows the user to open the book in their workspace while creating the practice projects included.




Glass-painters


Book Description

Describes the creation of stained glass windows in medieval cathedrals and examines the social context within which the medieval glass-painters worked




The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany


Book Description

"With auction prices of Tiffany lamps soaring, collectors are turning to Tiffany's highly desirable art glass, or Favrile glass. These luminescent vessels seize--and continue to hold--the imagination. Author Paul Doros explores the full range of remarkably diverse and innovative styles and forms that Tiffany Studios produced. Former Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Doros spent twenty-five years studying and researching the subject. His definitive account is accompanied by David Schlegel's masterly photography, which captures the exquisite delicacy of the "Flowerform" vases, the dramatically dripping golden flow of the "Lava" vases, the dazzling iridescence of the "Cypriote" vases, and much more. A must for all lovers of Tiffany, art glass, and the decorative arts"--




Glass Art


Book Description

The great artists of cathedral windows began it. Louis Comfort Tiffany perfected it And now you can explore it -- the look of stained glass. Almost any glass surface can glow with brilliant color. With glass paint -- not real stained glass -- these simple instructions and imaginative designs turn any window in your home into a work of art. Or paint a glass art border to frame an outdoor view. You can paint a piece of glass or plastic and hang it in a window for amazingly versatile moods, for holidays, for parties, or simply for your own pleasure. Besides these vertical techniques, you'll find complete instructions for three-dimensional projects, ranging from jars and display plates to self-adhering sun-catchers for windows or patio doors. The materials you need are inexpensive, and you get dozens of patterns, many full-sized, appropriate for every type of project. Best of all, the photo gallery of finished designs will stir your imagination and show you all the places in your home where glass art can charm and inspire.




Stained Glass Painting


Book Description

More than two hundred illustrations enhance a discussion of materials, strokes, lines, and designs for painting stained glass and advice on creating a suitable work area in a basement or living room




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