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Home » stained-glass-blog » Sandblast or Stained Glass: Etching Spots on a Loon – Beautiful Detail

Sandblast or Stained Glass: Etching Spots on a Loon – Beautiful Detail

March 24, 2014 By janet 5 Comments

We have been helping with a stained glass panel of a nature scene that includes a beautifully detailed loon.  So have you run into this kind of challenge?  How to capture the gorgeous detail of a beautiful loon, without all of the cut lines and umpteen little, tiny pieces marring the flow of the panel?  Our solution is to etch all of those little, little spots and dots that are the essence of the loon.  Did I hear you ask: “What does that involve”?

Loon Etch - Photoresist & Artwork

Loon Etch – Photoresist & Artwork – Part of Stained Glass Panel

 

Several steps – first, we had to create the artwork.  Then we had to prepare a film tool, to use in making a thin photoresist, through a photographic process,  We applied the photoresist, a kind of stencil, to the flashed/layered glass, then sandblasted the pieces.  The flashed glass is black on white on clear, so we blasted away the black to reveal the white.  Voila!  Loon spots!

Filed Under: Art of Stained Glass, Stained Glass Techinques Tagged With: etched glass, flashed glass, stained glass

Comments

  1. Thom Berg says

    May 13, 2015 at 4:38 pm

    Where on earth can you find black on white flashed? I’ve not been able to find it from here in the midwest.

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    • Martha says

      June 14, 2017 at 3:18 pm

      Lambert’s in Germany makes Black/White/Clear mouth-blown glass. Available from S.A. Bendheim in New Jersey.

      Reply
  2. MSSOPHIA says

    May 13, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    Black/white/Clear Flashed glass is from Lambert’s in Germany. Distributed in the states by http://www.bendheimstainedglass.com/

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  3. Eric says

    October 14, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    Hi! I am reaching out to sites I like and want to see if you would provide feedback on my etching supplies if I sent them to you free. Any interest? Shipping of the supplies will be free as well. I am looking forward to your reply. Thanks in advance for your reply. Eric

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    • janet says

      October 16, 2016 at 10:39 pm

      Thanks for you note, Eric, and for your kind words about our website. We’re all set on etching supplies, so we’ll need to pass on your offer, but thanks again for thinking of us. All the Best, Paned Expressions Studios

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