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Designs

Witchell’s Pickled Walnuts

Designed in 2007 for a good friend by the name of James Witchell. This hand-sketched design was built using vector and colouring tools in Photoshop.

David SmithAugust 10, 2010

Portfolio Step By Step Workshops

In my desire to pass on this knowledge to other craftsmen, I regularly hold reverse glass gilding workshops where sometimes on a one to one basis & sometimes in groups I teach the techniques of glass decoration that I have…

David SmithJuly 23, 2010

Designs

Web Button Design

This Design was developed from an original pencil sketch I designed and then re-drawn in Gerber's Omega 2.0 software. Finally finishing all colour rendering in Photoshop.

David SmithJuly 20, 2010

Designs

Letterhead Studios Design

Commissioned by Chuck Davis. Title lettering and background designs for Letterhead Studios front webpage. USA 2009. A combination of hand drawn sketches and computer generated designs using Photoshop tools, but still all hand made.

David SmithJuly 20, 2010

Step By Step

Victorian Era Brilliant Cut Glass

A step by step article I wrote for Sign Business Magazine in Denver, Colorado, USA in 2006. Explaining the lost art of Brilliant Cutting .Treble acid embossing White acid toning and silver-staining in kiln fired glass.

David SmithJuly 15, 2010

Smith Tip

The Smith Tip

This gilding tool which I designed in 2007 is known as a Smith Tip. I developed it for the application of applying full gold leaves to glass and flat oil gilded surfaces.

David SmithMay 18, 2010

Witchell’s Pickled Walnuts

Gold Leaf Workshops – Photos

Web Button Design

Letterhead Studios Design

Victorian Era Brilliant Cut Glass

The Smith Tip