The Making of the Glencairn Methuselah Window: Page 73
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| continued from page 275 <sic> Modelling Clay Backing ground up in turpentine at any rate it was mixed eventually with turpentine and oxidized turpentine stirred 13000 times It dried rather quickly. I put the above on irregularly nothing else was done to the back FRONT Caution! – but you must not go over paint after you put it on – unless you strengthen it immediately. Don’t grind with iron knife! If you can help it. HALFTONE FILM <note in box - “now put on 
              by hand some stuff as ame around edges 3 Olive texture, 1 Golden 
              Texture, dots here and there”> FIRE PAINT ON BEFORE PUTTING FILMS ON Grind up Modelling Clay Backing in one grinder in turpentine now 
              add a little fatty turpentine and dilute in with13000 times stirred 
              oxidized turpentine. Spatter with cut-off end of small toothbrush 
              leaving bare spaces – after this sets go over bare spaces 
              here and there with a flat brush to add more tone – soften 
              edges 3 Olive texture, 1 Golden Texture. |