Designed by John Piper and made by Joseph Nuttgens. Stained glass window at All Saints Church, Farnborough, West Berkshire, featuring symbols of The Resurrection: fishes tree of life butterflies.
Incredible website before I spent many hundreds ofĭollars on lessons, DVDs, tutorials, etc. You can't imagine how much I wish I had found your I promise to use it only to send you Stained Glass Gems. If you have any questions or comments about designing for stained glass,Ĭan't find what you're looking for? Use this search box to search the world wide web.ĭon't worry - your e-mail address is totally secure. Your question will be answered directly under where you asked it. Saying about teaching old dogs new tricks!Īre you having problems with designing for stained glass or any other area of your stained glass work? My preference is the original edition, but perhaps that's because I'm so familiar with it. Has also left out a few thing that were in the original edition.
The only difference is, the new edition has added a few new things. You can buy either the original or the "new" edition. The book "Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain" is available here: It's something I've been doing for years when I want to design a leaf or flower to look as natural as possible. Now it's ready to use as part of your design or to make as a sun catcher. Then you will give it cut lines and perhaps change an area to make it easier to construct. Take the scanned picture and decide if you want to upload it to your graphics program so you can enlarge it or make the picture smaller. Simply lay your leaf, flower, whatever on the scanner bed, and scan it to print. Obviously you can't put a dog on your scanner, but for things like feathers, flowers, leaves, fruit, or any other small object, it works like a charm. It is used the same way as designing from a photograph, only you don't need a photograph. It's a fun way to design for stained glass. Here's another technique that you can do with your printer/scanner. It's pretty bad when a pattern book is published and the patterns have to be revised, by the person that bought the book, before they can be used. Believe me, I have seen such designs in several pattern books. You don't want to design a stained glass piece that can'tīe constructed due to design faults. To use this method for designing for stained glass, you should be familiar with construction techniques and impossible cuts. It will help you so that you can start designing for stained glass, and those designs will be uniquely yours.Īgain, the book is "Drawing On The Right Side Of Your Brain" by Betty Edwards.
It is fun and easy and you will learn how to draw from a totally different perspective than you ever thought was possible. I highly recommend it to anyone that is serious about learning how to draw. I occasionally use the book as a refresher and actually go right through it, following the lessons. They often comment on how easy it was for them to learn how to draw using the book. I have since met many people that have learned how to draw just from using that book.no classes. The name of the class was "Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain" and we used a book by the same name, authored by Betty Edwards. The portrait on the left is one that I drew of my son. I was skeptical.she would never teach me to draw! Much to my surprise and amazement, I not only learned how to draw, I was drawing portraits by the 5th week, and they actually looked like the person I was drawing. I met a lady that taught a class in drawing.