
: Drawing Saturday 20 January 2024 Stained glass : Session 10 Silver stained glass This was a short session held just before the Christmas break , whereby I mixed and laid down a silver stain that I had decided to use to bring two areas of Sooty's body into a yellow harmony with the rest of the figure . I had used the technique before and wanted to include the process in this much larger , complex piece as a reminder of its specific qualities . nbsp Silver stain is a chemical process whereby an oxide of silver is applied to glass , which when kiln fired , its ions migrate into the glass . A process that permanently stains the glass a transparent yellow . This means that you can get two distinct clear yellow areas in a single piece of glass without having cut the areas out of separate