Festive Season Glass Painting!

With the festive season fast approaching, our next project is Glass Painting! While we’re preparing festive gift items for our Garden Shop, we’re also looking into classes for those interested to learn so keep checking back or look for us at Facebook (botanika@gmail.com) for more updates.

There are actually two kinds of glass painting – transparent and opaque. Here’s a little bit about how we do transparent glass painting for those who are thinking of joining us. (Opaque glass painting will be covered in a separate post later.)

First of all, you need a clean glass – bowls, goblets, jars or glasses are all fine. You can use cut glass, too if you like. Wash your glass thoroughly to remove oil and dust. Wipe it clean with a dry cloth and set it aside for at least 10 minutes to make sure it’s thoroughly dry.

Then you can start outlining your design with a special black liner paste. This creates black outlines which give a stained glass effect like those in the picture, when done.

 Leave your outlined glass aside for a day or so to make sure the paste is completely dry when you are done outlining.

Now you can start filling in the outlines with transparent glass paint.

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