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How It may involve each individual making one piece of work or a group creating a work of art for a community site, schools or other sites. For example, workshops for primary schools might run over a month doing half a day per week or over four consecutive half days. An appropriate time scale is needed in order to work safely. It is better to have adequate time for preparation of reference drawings or paintings on paper, followed by time for applying finished designs to glass. One of two glass techniques may be chosen, either fusing or painting. The variety of glass colours and paint colours is great and the effects given by different ways of working with them are often beyond first expectations. Although an extremely old art form, stained glass facilitates very contemporary work and variety of aesthetics, when the material itself can be considered as environmentally therapeutic being a transmitter and receiver of light with the beneficial colours. Exploring architectural glass with the spontaneity of a beginner, who will be guided by learning the "dos and don'ts" of stained glass techniques (fusing, painting), is also a brain-teaser. |