How to Easily Make Stained Glass Patterns

Simple stained glass patterns can be used for stained glass projects, sun-catchers, gel stain paintings on glass and coloring pages. Simple designs work well for small pieces of glass work. The simple line drawings are an easier design to use when teaching a beginner stained glass class. Design an entire file of easy to make stained glass patterns for future use with any type of the colorful projects.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• colored pencils

1. Look for pictures that you would like to use in your stained glass designs. Line drawings and coloring book pages are simple to incorporate into a design. Squares, rectangles, diamonds and circles are elegant and simple shapes to incorporate into a design.

2. Sketch the outline of your design on to white art paper. Use a ruler to keep the drawn outline line form even. Continue by drawing in the simple image or shape for the design.

3. Make three photocopies of the pattern design you have drawn. Two copies must be must be full size project patterns, one a color key and the second the line drawing copy.

4. Chose colors that you want to use and color in the second copy, or color key, of the line drawing with colored pencils.

5. Use a black marker to fill in the entire bold outline of the color code key. This is the flux and solder lines between glass segments in a design.

6. Store the two full size patterns in a file folder or manila envelope. Attach the smaller photocopy to the outside of the folder to identify which pattern is contained inside.

7. Cut the black and white full size line drawing into the small shaped segments for the glass cutting patterns when ready to make the project.

References

• Stained Glass Patterns