Broken Painted Front Door (Linda)
Glasgow, West End
2012
Private
A large domestic painted glass panel in an Edwardian front door. The glass broke when the door slammed shut in the wind |  |
A new piece of glass was cut to size from an old salvaged pane of Victorian glass that we had kept from a previous job. Fablon was stuck onto the glass and the design traced on and carefully cut out by hand. |  |
The trace line was then painted, and the fablon carefully removed. |  |
The first kiln firing of seven firings. |  |
The colour was added in layers of oil and water paint (enamel) with each layer being fired at 700 degrees Celsius. |  |
Slowly the colours and the painting began to take shape. |  |
More colours = more firing |  |
Detail of the painted yacht scene before the yellow stain was added. |  |
The colour of the enamels were very different before and after firing. The brown paint shown here, fired dark green. |  |
Similarly, the colour of the yellow stain changed considerably in the kiln. (Detail before firing) |  |
At all times the new panel on the LHS was compared with the colour and tone of the original broken glass on the RHS. |  |
The finished door panel in situ. |  |
The finished new door panel. |  |
Detail of the finished panel. |  |
The finished door panel from the outside. |  |