It was great to see the spirit moving as I wanted to do stained glass painting with my children; munu came up with a library book for boys with the same painting.
Stained glass is another very old art form. The first use of glass happened more than 3,000 years before the birth of Our Lord. Glass is made by heating sand and ash together.
In the middle ages the windows of many churches were made up of many pieces of brightly colored gla. The pieces were held together by lead strips, which looked black.
First made window arch out from a card stock. Stick that on a white construction paper.
Then draw horizontal and vertical lines like those in the picture.
Children drew the picture of a knight.
These lines should be covered with strips of contruction paper. The lines make the speces for the colored glass.
Now color in the spaces.Use the color wheel and choose the clashing colors to go to next to each other such as red and green. Use bright color.
Now cut narrow strips of black construction paper about 1/4 inch wide (we were short of black paper, so we used different color). The real lead strips are not straight , so it does not need to be straight.Glue the strips.
Neutral black makes all the other colors stand out.
You can observe how the outside colors shine through the colors and the lead band separates colors.The light shines through the beautiful windows remind the the way God's love and grace shines through our souls when we follow His commandments.
Stained glass is another very old art form. The first use of glass happened more than 3,000 years before the birth of Our Lord. Glass is made by heating sand and ash together.
In the middle ages the windows of many churches were made up of many pieces of brightly colored gla. The pieces were held together by lead strips, which looked black.
First made window arch out from a card stock. Stick that on a white construction paper.
Then draw horizontal and vertical lines like those in the picture.
Children drew the picture of a knight.
These lines should be covered with strips of contruction paper. The lines make the speces for the colored glass.
Now color in the spaces.Use the color wheel and choose the clashing colors to go to next to each other such as red and green. Use bright color.
Now cut narrow strips of black construction paper about 1/4 inch wide (we were short of black paper, so we used different color). The real lead strips are not straight , so it does not need to be straight.Glue the strips.
Neutral black makes all the other colors stand out.
Below Stained glass window is from St Patrick's cathedral in New York city. Majority of the windows were made in France near Chartres Cathedral which has the greatest collection of 13th century stained glass.
You can observe how the outside colors shine through the colors and the lead band separates colors.The light shines through the beautiful windows remind the the way God's love and grace shines through our souls when we follow His commandments.
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