One curious way to thicken runny paint
Video demonstration
A few months ago, a student from Illuminate, mixing paint for the first time, accidentally made "soup" - that is, runny paint.
This paint was so runny it was uncontrollable. It was impossible to work with.
"Help! What shall I do?" the student emailed us.
And we replied. Of course we did. That's how we work inside our online courses: you email us your questions and we help you solve your problems.
And not just while the course lasts.
Also afterwards.
Now, if this happens to you - that you accidentally make soup: sloppy, runny paint - in brief the options are:
Add more glass paint, or
Add more liquid gum Arabic.
But, suspecting from our student's words that the answer was "more gum", we made a short film to give them confidence.
After all, if you have runny paint to start with, how can you thicken it by adding liquid gum?
On its face, this doesn’t seem to make sense.
This film you're about to watch is not the film we made for our student.
It's a new film. It has more context, because it’s for a wider audience.
It's all part of the glass painter's method - the method which we're glad to share with you, because learning how to paint stained glass is a wonderful experience.
That's why we wrote a book: to spotlight a clear, exciting and inspiring path for newcomers to follow:
