How to Make a Stained Glass Window Part 2
You can definitely vary the thickness of your leading. You can have some areas that are thick and you can have some areas that are pretty thin or we could just pretend that’s the pot glass where they fired on the details. The black details or it can be a combination of pot glass and stained glass where parts were put together and then parts were painted on.
Now, we’re going go ahead and transfer this drawing onto our black scratch light paper. So you want to put the dull side up and then you’re going to lay the chalk side down on top of that and lay your drawing on top of that. And you can always paper clip this together if you want or put a little tape on it to hold them together. And what you’re going to do is you’re going to trace and then push hard and let’s take a look to perfect. And you go around the outside edge of the areas you’ve colored in.
So it’s almost like I’m actually drawing now the pieces of glass, the shapes of the pieces of glass that would go in between the leading before we sketch in the leading. Now, we’re tracing the glass pieces. Take a little peak, it looks good. We’re going to go ahead and remove the transfer paper and set that aside. And then, inside your scratch light packet, there should be a little scratch tool. And all you do basically now is we’re going to start to scratch away the black film. That’s it.
So I’m going to go ahead and start scratching. As you can see, I’m making some progress here and I’ll just continue to outline over my white lines. And you really have to pay attention to what you’re doing and make certain that you’re not scratching away your leading instead of scratching away the glass. So that’s almost just if you can’t be doing two things at the same time, you’re going to have pay attention to what you’re doing so you don’t make any mistakes.
I can show you what you can do if you actually do scratch away something you don’t want to but you can’t really do it in large areas. You can do it in a small little area. While I was working I scratched away a little bit too much right here on my little stamen of the flower. So if you take a marker, you can actually come in and just kind of dot it back in there that little area so that when you turn it over no one will be able to tell that you’ve made a mistake there.
But like I said, you can’t do it in a really large area or it’s not going to look the same as the black coating that’s actually on this film. So don’t go overboard with the touch ups. Now, with your little tool, it should have ever get dull from doing so much scratching and you can just take a little piece of sand paper and just rub it like this and it will sharpen it back up again for you. It’s always fun to see which colors pop up because you never know when you’re working what’s coming next.
In each sheet of scratch light is different. And it’s okay to leave these little pieces of black because I think it adds a little extra interest. It almost makes it look like the texturing that you would find in the stained glass. So I don’t think you necessarily have to scratch away every tiny little piece of black.
There we have our stained glass window. It’s all finished and I know you’re going to have a lot of fun with the scratch light paper. It’s really is fun to play with.
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