John Kenneth Clark - In Progress

The very last thing that was done with this glass, before the panels were built, was to make the glass opalescent.

The leads hold all the pieces together. This image shows the top sectin of the Gethsemane window.

The leading of the Gethsemane Window.

Here the painting and silverstaining is completed and the window is ready for leading.

Detail of the base of the Baptism window.

This shows the completed piece of glass that makes up one of the Angel’s wings.

The golden colour comes from silverstain, an ancient technique that, when fired on the ouside of the glass, turns it yellow.

For the first time since the beginning of making the windows, the two parts of the window are brought together.

The painting of this window is now completed.

a view of the painting during the final stages

The painting of the angel in the Gethsemene window is almost completed.

the garden overview, there are still many small elements to apint and then to silverstain, but things are moving to an end now.

and now in the garden window, this window is almost finished with painting, over the coming days, it will be brought to an end.

the borders and canopies are almost completed now, This image shows two of them.

some of the heads from the centre panel. I have left the painting of these to quite a late stage in the process. This image shows just a minimum of line painting at this stage.

The figures in white

showing the main panel

Some of the apostles

the centre window, the painting of the robe

a detail

Painting the loin cloth

the borders and conopy

A detail of the painting of the robe.

 The painting of the Baptist’s robes

The angels’s wing

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here toneare some of the olive leaves,  painted both line and tone.

The line painting for the angel, I worked here directly on the drawing.

in this example, there is a line painted ont6o thge glass.

All  of the plastic foil that protected the glass during the etching stages now has to be removed and the glass cleaned in readiness for painting.

The glass placed again on the drawing. This just about completes the etching stages of the windows.

The cloud has been etched out.

A closer detail of this.