Stained Glass Set in a Bearskin Wall

Somewhere along the way I developed a love of painting stained glass. Perhaps the first example was 'Escape Route' where you will find a stained glass window tucked in below all of the machines. Here, the stained glass is set in a wall of fur, with some abstract twisty things in the foreground. There are also floating disks inviting the viewer to walk up to the wall and touch it. The scene depicted in the stained glass was taken from a postcard I got in Barbados I think, it was originally a painting which I stylized in stained glass. To paint stained glass I start by a light outline of where the lines will be. Then I fill in each section with a different colour, careful not to let the colours run together, When fully dry, I overlay a dark colour (alzarian+viridian) on the edges of the colour blocks. It is important to keep the colour values (lightness or darkness) similar, so the window appears illuminated. To finish the illusion, I try to put some reflected colours in the window-sill around the glass. You can see a bit of colour mixed into the grey of the windowsill in this painting. 

 

Stained Glass Set in a Bearskin Wall, 11 x 15", cold press, watercolour 2002 (No. 1749)