
Tone your canvas with a cool color dominance of greens, blues, and purples, mix your own paints from a limited palette, and create a harmonious background before building layers.
Create a loose, gestural base with a stick to break up space, using black and white paints, build layers toward a stained glass effect, and let it dry overnight.
Apply glazes to isolate shapes and build multiple layers using a limited palette of three colors plus black and white, blending greens and purples with gloss medium to vary transparency.
Explore variety in design by blending blue and white to create a veiled, translucent effect, then adjust transparency with gloss medium and water, scraping excess as you refine swirls.
Demonstrates the stained glass method in abstract painting, emphasizing intentional edge work, layered transparency, and color blending from blues and oranges to neutral tones.
Learn how to paint one of my favorite styles, the Stained Glass Method. Called that because many people have suggested these paintings remind them of stained glass panels.
The Stained Glass Method is a fun and easy way to learn and practice several techniques, that will come in handy on all of your other paintings too.
You'll be painting loosely during the first few steps, and then tightening things up a bit for the final details. Learning how to vary these 2 opposing styles; loose and tight, at will and to the exact degree that you want, is a very valuable skill to possess You'll also be practicing and developing your skills with transparent washes juxtaposed against opaque shapes.
The finished compositions are gestural and expressive, and quite popular among collectors.
I think you'll find these demonstrations fun and informative, and I do hope you decide to join us. As always if you have any questions, I'm here to help you.