Milcho Silianoff
On Sunday I am going to attend a service at the Saltsburg Presbyterian Church in Saltsburg Pennsylvania. There are two windows in the sanctuary that I designed and painted with my brother, Tim Boucher, based upon the artistic stylings of Milcho Silianoff. They are the Baptism of Christ and the Resurrection. These two windows join two others that were the last two Milcho completed before he died. Luckily, I painted the one behind the altar with him. He was an interesting guy with a beaming personality. There are many things I picked up from Milcho: how he painted with no tones letting the trace lines create tones on a larger scale, using darker glass on the outside of the window to soften the transition from the darkness of the edge of the window frame, and how to look at all glass in terms of tone. Charlie Lawrence, another incredible stained glass painter from Philadelphia, told me the same thing one time. He said that the secret to picking glass was to look at the tone of the color. These windows represent this transfer of knowledge from Milcho and my artistic collaboration with my brother. It is the first major piece of art that we have completed together.
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