Glass painting with stained-glass paints: execution technology
Nowadays, stained glass is a painting on glass stained glass paints. In this article, we will give a master class in glass painting at home.
In earlier times, craftsmen who decorated buildings, houses, churches, and other structures created stained-glass windows using pieces of colored glass. The light in the temples passing through such a window created an atmosphere of mystery and reverence.
Today we can create a stained-glass window using special paints.
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Stained glass paints
With the help of stained glass paints we can color glass jars used for spices or cereals, painted glass bottles will bring individuality to the interior, a painted glass carafe for water or juice will delight with its color, painted flowers or butterflies on the interior door, window or mirror will give a good mood.
Painting on glass with stained-glass paints can help in choosing a gift for relatives and friends. For example, having painted a set of glasses, you will save on an exclusive present. Such a gift can not be found in stores, it is created with your own hands and is individual.
Stained Glass Classification
Stained glass paints are divided into two most basic groups:
- Water based paints - Acrylic, well washed off with water and most often require firing for fixing. After such manipulations, the painted product can be washed easily, even with cleaning products, this will not damage the paint.
Such paints are environmentally friendly and practically odorless, for these qualities, they are well suited for children's creativity. They are more liquid and transparent, well transmitting light.
- Organic solvent based paints - Alkyd, can be both alcohol-based and lacquered. Such paints for painting do not require firing, they are more dense and matte. They hold well and can be wiped with a damp cloth or rinsed.
But such paints are not suitable for everyone - they have a strong pungent smell, so children and people with allergies cannot work with them. In a well-ventilated area, working with such paints will not harm.
Everyone chooses which colors he will use for stained glass painting.
Acrylic - do not smell, brighter, do not require special cleaners. But when applied, the paint may lie unevenly or require several strokes.
Alkyd - smell strongly, thick and matte. But when applied, they spread evenly on the surface and can even hide irregularities and roughness of the surface of the product.
Types of stained glass paints for decor
Stained-glass paints can not only paint a glass surface, they can create paintings and other works of art. For sophisticated craftsmen there is a choice of stained glass paint textures not only based on them.
Drawings for painting on glass with stained glass paints can be made using the following materials:
- Silicate - the most common, they are made by melting dye and flux, which makes transparent or matte paints.
- Lustrovaya - due to the presence of metal oxides in the paint composition, such paint has metallic or pearlescent colors. It is quite liquid, so it is used by applying a preliminary contour so that when painting the liquid does not spread and does not mix with other colors.
- Foaming - such paint swells and peels off during firing, due to which a volumetric relief pattern of the stained glass window is obtained.
- Icy - or granular, when firing, the granules spread and the pattern is obtained in the form of pimples. Before applying them, a drying oil or special glue is applied to the painted surface for better adhesion of the paint to the glass.
- Matting - used to add dullness to the glass, usually used for large surfaces where paints are mixed together or for painting according to a pattern. A day after painting, the product is fired to fix the paint.
- Marbled - usually with such a painting two colors are used, the second is applied until the first is dry. Then they are mixed with a brush or sponge, depending on what we want to see in the end. Solid marble can be obtained by dropping a little water on the surface, and then transparent paint on the water and then, on top, the desired color.
- Craquelure - they are used to create an antique stained-glass window; such a paint, together with acrylic varnish, gives a cracking effect.
- Pearl - paint that creates pearls. The pearl is extruded to the desired size, then rounded. After a day, it dries completely.
- Patterned - it is liquid, based on water and alkyd resins. When using it, before painting the stained-glass window, a drop of water is first applied to the required surface. Then paint of one or two colors onto water, then stir with a brush or stick. You can blow your own pattern with the help of a cocktail tube.
Advice! If the stained-glass window is created for the first time, it is worth starting with ordinary stained-glass paints, without any effects and without firing.
Tools and Tools
So that the work does not interrupt and the mood does not deteriorate, we will prepare in advance everything that we need in the process of painting the stained-glass windows:
- Of course, stained glass paints. For the first time, you should take paints that do not go under firing. For better fixing, you can use varnish.
- Acrylic lacquer. It will make our stained glass painting not only glossy-shiny, but also more wear-resistant. In addition, the product can be easily washed with water.
- Contour for stained-glass paints, usually sold with paints, or in the same department.
- Cone brushes. This is if the paint is in jars and without nozzles, or if it will be necessary to fix it somewhere.
- A palette if you plan to mix several colors. But for the first time, it is worth choosing a simpler drawing.
- Stencil with a pattern or pattern. Stencils for painting with stained glass paints on glass, sold in the same place as the paint.
- Marker to transfer the drawing on the stencil on the glass.
- Glass or glass product. Glass for painting with stained-glass paints is sold in stores where there is paint of various shapes and sizes.
- Alcohol or acetone, which is at hand, to wipe off excess paint and correct unevenness.
- Cotton buds and toothpicks or a needle. They are convenient to remove excess paint and correct the contour.
- A rag to wipe the brushes before dipping them again in the paint.
- Thinner for paints. Mandatory only for these paints, a solvent of another company or for other paints can spoil our paints.
When all the tools and materials are ready, you need to lay the surface on which we are going to do stained glass painting on glass and get to work.
Glass painting technique
Below is a step-by-step instruction on how to paint a glass surface with stained-glass paints using the example of irises:
- Degrease the glass with any detergent, or alcohol or acetone, so that the paint is better laid on the surface.
Advice! Under the glass it is best to put white paper or whatman paper, so it will be more convenient to draw which shades of paint are visible.
- We put the stencil on the glass and draw a marker around the drawing. We no longer need a stencil.
- We draw a contour. It is better to move from the center to the edges, without rushing. We try to extrude the contour evenly and not leave gaps.
- The circuit should dry properly, the drying time, usually indicated on the tube. The main thing is not to rush, you can start painting the next day.
- The most interesting is the filling of fragments of the stained-glass window. We also do this in stages, moving from the core of the picture.
- Choose a paint color and paint all the fragments of this color. For light shades, mix the colors on the palette to the desired color.
- When the flowers are ready, proceed to the background between them. According to the idea, it is opaque, for this it is better to use varnish. It dries pretty quickly.
- Getting to the frame - pebbles. Smaller stones are painted with a smaller brush, large stones with a larger brush.
Now it remains to wait for the stained-glass window to dry, it depends on the paint, the drying time is indicated on the package.
Our stained glass picture is ready, it remains to put it in a frame and find it a worthy place.
Conclusion
Now we know how to make stained glass painting, and we can create our own stained glass masterpieces, feeling like real artists. You can use your stained glass paintings not only on plain glass, but also on dishes, windows and mirrors.
Decorating a glass cup with an individual pattern, it can be presented to relatives or friends. They will not only like its decorative look, but will also be flattered by the attention and care given. Moreover, such a gift will cost much less than a purchased exclusive, since the price of paints is available to anyone.
In the video in this article we can watch a master class painting glass with stained-glass paints.
