coombs criddle associates
dcoombs@sover.net
(+1 802) 423 5640

Featured student work
Made during 2008 workshops: stained glass panel by Carol Slovikovsky (left) and cartoon by ClaraInez ElChoueri

Workshop descriptions
>>> Graphic Analysis: Cartooning for Stained Glass
>>> Trace & Texture: Glasspainting with Style
>>> Stained Glass Portraits
Fees & scholarships >>>
Location & hours >>>
Accommodations >>>
About the instructor >>>

3-day workshop costs $425
Fee includes tuition, materials, lunches and snacks.
Maximum of 6 students per class.

2009 Intensive 3-day workshops in stained glass design and glasspainting (updated June 2009)

Graphic Analysis: Cartooning For Stained Glass
October 15th, 16th & 17th 2009. Vermont, USA >>>

Trace & Texture: Glasspainting With Style
October 19th, 20th & 21st 2009. Vermont USA >>>

Stained Glass Portraits
October 23rd, 24th & 25th 2009. Vermont USA >>>

Tailor-made workshops
Email or call for details (802) 423 5640

Student Gallery (slideshows)
Trace & Texture Workshop: group exercises >>>
Panels made in design & painting workshops >>>
Artist residency, Stamford Elementary School >>>

Graphic Analysis: Cartooning For Stained Glass
October 15th, 16th & 17th 2009. Vermont, USA

A cartoon is a full-sized drawing that provides the visual information needed to create a stained glass window. Successful stained glass is a marriage between art and structure; between colour, line, imagery, and lead. Cartooning is the stage for visual decision-making and practical problem-solving. How do I make/paint/cut this in glass? Where do I put the lead?

Learn contemporary methods of translating images into stained glass via a process of graphic analysis that includes creating a traceline from a drawing or photo; distinguishing between local color, shadow & texture; and breaking the image into areas of different color/glass. Learn how glasspainting can successfully integrate bars & lead lines into the picture through the careful manipulation of tone/value.

Suitable for all levels. Experience an advantage but not essential. Please bring sketchbook & drawing materials. Max. 6 students. $425 fee includes tuition, materials, lunches and snacks.

Trace & Texture: Glasspainting With Style
October 19th, 20th & 21st 2009. Vermont USA

Loosen up and/or expand your technique. Develop a unique glasspainting voice through working with a slow-drying medium that allows for an endless variety of mark-making and textural effects. Learn how to mix, thin, and apply lead-free paints with propylene glycol, an inexpensive, non-toxic, glasspainting medium.

Discover techniques that allow for a lively, expressive traceline and how to control/modifiy transparency without losing the sparkle of the glass. Print glasspaints and silver stain with lace, plastic, rubber stamps etc. and create faux textures such as stone, wood, fur and fabric.

Suitable for all levels. Please bring sketch book, drawing materials and glasspainting brushes.
Max. 6 students. $425 fee includes tuition, materials, lunches and snacks.

Stained Glass Portraits
October 23rd, 24th & 25th 2009. Vermont USA

Review techniques learned in previous workshops with Debora Coombs and expand your skills to include portraits in stained glass.

In this 3-day workshop students will cartoon and paint an original portrait/s working from photos taken at the beginning of class. Students will trace and shade (matte) portraits using traditional and non-traditional tools to find individual ways of interpreting their cartoon. This workshop does not cover painting techniques for restoration or replication.

Skill in portraiture is not required, just basic drawing ability and a willingness to visit new artistic territory.

For returning students. Please bring sketch book, drawing materials and glasspainting brushes.
Max. 6 students. $425 fee includes tuition, materials, lunches and snacks.

LOCATION & HOURS:

Workshops take place in Deboras studio in Heartwellville, Vermont, a small hamlet beside the Green Mountain National Forest on VT Rt.100, 10 mins north of the border with western Massachusetts.
Journey times approx. 3hrs drive from Boston, 4hrs from New York City. Nearest airport, Albany (Schenectady). Nearest Amtrak, Albany (Rensselaer). Both approx 90 mins drive from the studio.

Tuition 9am-4pm each day. Slide presentation evening. Studio available extended hours from 8am - 9pm each day. Recently improved facilities.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

• B&B homestays by arrangement, $25 per night includes simple breakfast.
• Porches Inn, (413) 664 0400 www.porchesinn.com
• Holiday Inn (413) 663 6500, both in North Adams, MA.
• Readsboro Inn (802) 423 5048 www.readsboroinn.com

FEES & SCHOLARSHIPS:

• 3-day workshop fee $425 includes tuition, materials, healthy lunches & snacks.
• Pre-registration required. 50% deposit secures a place.
• 10% discount for those taking more than one workshop.
• Individual tuition/consultation fees negotiable

A maximum of three $200 merit-based scholarships will be awarded in 2009. Recipients usually have a strong fine arts backgrounds and demonstrate the potential to contribute positively to the stained glass profession. Experience in stained glass is not necessary to be considered for a scholarship.
Application deadline, August 1st 2009 . Notification August 15th. How to apply >>>

Past students have received grants from various sources including their home state arts organizations.
Scholarships specifically for the study of stained glass are awarded annually by the Stained Glass Association of America and the American Glass Guild. Links to application forms and guidelines as follows:
The Jim Whitney Memorial Scholarship fund, Deadline March 15th 2009 link: AmericanGlassGuild.org >>>
Dorothy Maddy Scholarship fund, Deadline June 1st 2009 link: Stained Glass Association of America >>>

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

DEBORA COOMBS MA FMGP is a Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. She studied stained glass at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland; University of Wales, Swansea; and received her masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London, England, in 1985.

An experienced educator, Debora directed the glass department at Chelsea College of Art in London from 1994-96. She has lectured and taught stained glass for professional associations and colleges including the Pilchuck Glass School; Stained Glass Association of America; American Glass Guild; and British Society of Master Glass Painters.

Debora's work has been commissioned, exhibited and published internationally for almost thirty years. Commissions include two 25ft tall figurative windows for Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan and twenty stained glass windows for St Marys Cathedral in Portland, Oregon

In 2007 Debora completed designs for forty-nine stained glass windows and exhibited seven new pieces at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass. Besides commissions, Debora is presently working on a solo exhibition that opens October 8th 2009 at the Jeanetta Cochrane Stained Glass Gallery in London, England.

MORE INFORMATION (802) 423 5640 debora@coombscriddle.com