| How I Made A Faux Stain Glass
"GlowLight" Page 1 |
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To download the 5 second MPEG video (473Kb) showing this with lights flashing
gently behind the rose, click HERE. It's quite
pretty. It looks a bit like candle light! For a closer look, click on the thumbnails. To download the TEXT version, go HERE. This can be unzipped and opened in any word processor and printed. |
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This is one way to make a light that appears like stain glass. Here I have used a free rose pattern gleaned from Spectrum Glass. I will not be giving you colors or amounts of clay. What I am teaching here is a technique that can be applied to any design using any colors!! This lesson would be considered intermediate to advanced. But that doesn't mean beginners can't give it a go!!
What you need: |
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| A pattern printed or copied onto
a piece of paper in the size you want your final artwork to be. Make TWO. One to use for
tracing and one to go under the glass. A piece of glass large enough to accomodate the entire pattern and then some. 2 tiles or plates of glass for baking on top of flat items and to use as a work surface. A computer graphics program or coloring pencils or medium to color in the pattern with. Grab whatever's at hand. You'll be pretty much destroying the patterns as you go along. Opaque clay for the "leading." I used black, you can use any color you want. |
Translucent clay blended to
match the colors you have on your patterns. I have 6 colors in the pattern used in this
tutorial: 2 yellows, 2 greens, 1 red, and 1 blue. Take care not to blend the translucent
with too much opaque clay or you will lose the translucency. Start with a small pinch at a
time. Lots of scrap clay for the body where the lights are stored. 1 blunt yet pointed tool for tracing (see Fig 1) 1 Exacto knife Undiluted Transparent Liquid Sculpey 1 toothpick 1 pasta machine Typing paper (maybe - I used it in this tutorial, you may not need it.) |
Pencil with an eraser Yarn (which is what I used), Fabric, cane slices, whatever you want to cover the outside of body where the lights are stored. Cardboard Scotch Tape & Packing tape 16 or 18 gauge wire (a coathanger works just fine) 1 string of 35 holiday lights Corn Starch Soft brush (optional, you can use your hands) Your choice of texture sheet (optional, you can use anything for texturing) 1 extension cord |
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