Wow, I got a really good feeling looking at all those hand painted embellishments. Really sets off the buildings! I like the way they include the painted shadows to make the elements look so dimensional. It all makes it seem so quaint and unique. Sort of cheery-like. Just think if the graffiti artis...

Hi Erik,
I am ALL EARS! And eyes! (and my nose is around here somewhere ) Please proceed.
Pat

Jerry,
That is a sweet piece. As good as gilded or mirrored glue chip looks on flat glass, it looks even better on slumped and bent glass.
Pat

They put the glue on too thick, and overlapped some areas. It was too thick to fly off the glass in free flying chips. Pulling the mask off with the glue still attached is a good way to get chips outside your lines as well as splotchy unchipped areas. It looks like they used CONTACT brand shelf/draw...

The glass that chipped away revealed the hidden pressures that sand blasting with larger grit imparts into the glass surface. Glass has a lengthy "memory" when pressure is exerted on it's surface. This is a good example of why tempered glass can break when blasted too deep or with too larg...

You might begin by contacting some parking lot striping companies and ask what type of paint they use.
Pat

Haha Kelly,
Was there any snoring goin' on??
ZZzzzzzz,
'Patey Bor'. aka Pat

Wow Robert,
After reading about your energy in these projects, my mind pulled up memories of Micky as the sorcerer in Fantasia where he is standing
on a jutting spire and conducting all the activity below with his wand.
Pat

Andrew,
Don't open the vein completely, just a slight nick at an angle will achieve a wonderful airbrush effect.
Pat

Andrew, A quick note for the time being. I did some sandblasted prehistoric images in sandstone at learning center that was very near a site where early indians hunted an fished. The etchings were depictions of their tools, weapons, and boats. In keeping with the natural sandstone material, I chose ...

Nice work Erik. Those are good art pieces. That style would look good in the lobby of an upscale Amsterdam hotel or a software giant's conference room. Good markets to shoot for, maybe in limited production autographed runs. Clever use of the posterized black tree details to accent the gilded mica t...

Seeing all of the pieces reminds me of the early 80's and of being in Dean's office in South Pasadena. There he had his drawing board and I saw the originals of these designs cut by hand into rubyliths with cut out windows into which film negative details were spliced. These "ruby's" were ...

I will buy videos from anyone here or anywhere that teach me or encourage me to keep growing and learning. I plan on enjoying working and smiling till the day they outlaw paint or the hairs fall out of my brushes (like it did on my head). I still feel and think like I did before Rick went, as though...

You can try: Hastings Plastics Company hastingsplastics.com (310) 829-3449 1704 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA I buy casting resins, colors, fillers, and metal powders from them as well as a product called FLOWCOAT, a two part clear resin with a nice brush-on viscosity. Cures glossy with good abrasio...

It's already been happening for many years now, the only difference was the master's kept their techniques secret and their quality high. Lately it is harder and harder to tell the difference because cheaper manufacturers are really focusing into reaching the bar on quality while they maximize produ...

Well... it's not my nature to walk on a good pitch... but moving along, somewhere there is a saying that goes something like "when you become confident in a power tool, there's a new lesson coming soon!" Actually I think I just made that up- not bad! I still have memories of a blood curdli...

Are you planning to mimic traditional chrome plating by substituting silvering and then protecting it with clear powder coating? If this is the case, I think that you will have to be able to apply a very smooth powder coat finish, and from my experience the very nature of the powder heat cure finish...

Rodrick, You might also check out the EVENHEAT line of kilns. I have 3 bath tub style kilns, and 2 hexagon style. These Evenheat kilns have run trouble free for me over the years and look as good as new. I like their brand of computer that monitors the schedule of the firings. Consider the "dep...

I don't have knowledge of any specific process for silvering materials other than glass, except to note that I found that materials around my silvering area would take on the silver overspray and become mirrored. From this I would suspect that anything with a fairly smooth surface that will retain t...

The older large shiny sarcofigus (sarcofigi? pl.) at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas are hollow fiber glass shells that were sprayed into molds with a chopper gun, then silvered and finally sprayed with a tinted lacquer to achieve their golden color. The company that did them had difficulties at first ...

I happened across a new term, new to me at least. Maybe some of you already know about it, but for those how don't it may take a while to see examples and learn about it. Wikipedia has definitions on the meaning. And here is a website that will give you a taste. Check out the acid etching and copper...

I have some of Rick's window, shot about a year ago. Comin' your way.
Pat

I came across this site. Didn't know where to stick it. So I thought I'd stick it here.
It's like owning a mini Getty library at your keyboard.
Hope you enjoy!
Pat
http://www.all-art.org or www.all-art.org/contents.html

Sorry Rod, even though I have added to the job several times I have not thought to take photos. Your job is problematic. It looks by the shadows in the letters that the etching is on the first surface (front surface) so there will always be the "shadow thing" going on. Otherwise I would su...

Erik, In the states there used to be available 5/16" thick sheets of opaque colored glass sheets. These sheets were shiny glass on one side and "knurled textured" on the other side to allow them to be pasted to concrete or stone store fronts. It was really nice looking and some of it ...

Erik, The metallic paint was opaque Krylon spray paint, in just lightly applied coating. As far as shiny effects, you have a vast amount of materials to experiment with like colored mica powders, leaf metals, metal powders, foils, glass frits and stringers, colored epoxies, two part metal patinas, a...

Dave,
That piece turned out sweet. Now you have to try it without leaf gilding and try using the metal chlorides. Wham-Bam, like baking cookies

Erik, Doing glass signs with faux finishes or glass panels with elaborate backgrounds can be tricky business. As you can see on his website he has mentioned a disclaimer on how his product can appear differently in certain conditions. Plan carefully your idea to leave the text clear so that you don'...

Dave, I was thinking about this process after we talked and envisioned how it might play out as well as doing the gilding it all in one. After applying the black glass enamel ink, you should try spraying in some gold chloride in the open lettering areas after you pull the masking. (you might not eve...

Nice work Rod. I like the figures in the center. How did you do them? Reverse painted or affixed from behind?
Are those jewels around the outside or were those etched and then cleared before silvering?
It's difficult to tell. Either way you do fine work.
Pat