Painting on the glass with your own hands. Fundamentals of Excellence

Glass - the material is very familiar and ordinary, so familiar in everyday life, that its fragility, transparency, surprising smoothness, forming light flashes on the surface, ceased to impress and surprise. However, glass is still widely used in arts and crafts. Artists, using its amazing properties, create wonderful works of art that adorn our everyday life and each time make us look at this familiar and always new material in a completely new way.

One of the bright trends in art from ancient times is the painting of glass. And some artists use transparent paints for painting, creating imitations of stained glass, while others create on the glass a dense background painting with acrylic with gentle transitions of shades and halftones. Painting on glass - one of the simple and easily accessible art forms, which everyone can do for their own self-expression and decorating their life.

The painting can decorate many different objects: wine glasses, vases, plafonds on floor lamps and chandeliers, decorative plates, panels and bottles. You can dare and create larger shapes, for example, decorate the glass in the interior doors or cabinets doors, make a painted glass screen, etc. Painting on the glass with their own hands opens wide opportunities for creativity.

Painting glass with acrylic paints

To master painting on the glass with your own hands using acrylic paints you need to have: an acrylic contour paste of 2-3 colors, glossy acrylic lacquer, a thin brush (No. 1-2) and, of course, acrylic paints for glass and ceramics, as well as a glass object , Which we will paint, and a convenient flat container for mixing paints.

Before you start, you need to decide on the pattern. You can create a sketch by yourself, if there is no special ability to draw, find a suitable pattern in books, magazines, etc. To begin with, it is better to dwell on a simple small fragment. We redraw it on a tracing paper along the contour, preserving everything, even very small details. We put it under the glass surface and outline all the lines of the pattern with an acrylic contour. Glass must be degreased before work. By the way, painting on the glass with your own hands using acrylic paints allows you to do without a base picture or a stencil. It is possible to take a contour paste and in an arbitrary order to put on a surface of a glass, creating an abstract pattern-grid. It is important that the cells of this grid are large enough that they can then be filled with paint.

The acrylic contour is thick and dense enough to create the effect of a convex wire after drying, it does not allow the ink to flow into neighboring cells. All the fragments of the drawing between the contour are filled with paint of different colors and shades. Before starting to work with paint, the contour must be allowed to dry.

Acrylic colors are not transparent, they are covered with a dense matte layer of bright saturated color. You can, mixing colors, achieve different effects and get the necessary shades, and adding gold or silver paints, to receive effects of overflows and stiff gold and silver threads. You can type on the brush at once two, three colors of different colors and apply to the surface of the glass without mixing, you get a special effect. In a word, a wide field for artistic experiments opens here. Try, mix colors, get the most unexpected effects.

Another method of painting with acrylic paints is based on the combination of heterogeneous layers of dye filling the adjacent cells. One fill the denser, collected from three colors of paint, and the other - the paint of one color, diluted with acrylic lacquer, which will give it a light transparency and subtlety. And if you mix the paint with varnish in a 1: 1 ratio, the paint will become completely transparent, and the cells covered by it are almost "stained glass".

Finally, the last stage of the work. That the painted object could be washed, and paints are better "clung" to the surface of the glass, after careful drying it is placed in an oven heated to 120-150 degrees (no more), and they hold there for 20-30 minutes. Then leave in the oven until it completely cools. Glass painting
Ready.

Very interesting, exciting occupation can be painting of glass bottles with acrylic paints according to the described technology. Bottles of various shapes and sizes can be a worthy foundation for artistic creativity and the creation of genuine "masterpieces". Painting on the glass with your own hands is a wonderful hobby to which you can add children.