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Painting Decorative Thrifted Glass, for Beginners
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We'll show you many techniques in the video. Here are photos from the project:
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This sweet Korean pressed glass bowl was packed away in a box before.
Now it looks like Carnival Glass and is beautiful enough to use every day.
This is our favorite painted glass piece, so far, below. We love the sea glass greens mixed with tropical colors.
Before, it was hidden away in a closet. Now I keep my glasses in it on my desk.
Below is a dessert plate, before. We bought three of these for 99¢ each.
We used Victorian stained glass colors, and a bit of chalk paint to look like gray lead.
The finished dessert plates will be combine on window glass to create a stained glass window in the cellar of a Victorian house.
Because the glassware is painted on the outside and the bottom, it won't come into contact with food.
There's such a lot of pressed glass available on the second hand market for not a lot of money.
Fine point brushes help stay within the lines of the design. We uses inexpensive brushes, then throw them away later.
The bright colors of the glass paint are accented with gray chalk paint to look like lead accents.
We left some of the design clear to be filled with gray paint.
You can also use the painted glassware for storage of all kinds. I usually put my glasses in this dish below.
Make sure you paint the edges carefully for a finished look. Let the piece dry for at least 24 hours on a sheet of plastic wrap.
Mixing the colors turned out to be wonderful! Here we are using sea glass green next to apple green for these leaves.
We recommend working on a light table. They're not very expensive and usually run on USB power. We always cover ours with plastic wrap so it won't get splashed or dribbled with paint.
We also recommend wearing a mask when working with enamel paints. We found this wearable HEPA filter to wear under a heavier mask. It feeds fresh air into the mask and is much more comfortable to wear for long periods of time.
Our favorite glass paint is Pebeo Vitrail from France. It's durable, permanent and looks like real stained glass when dry.
We test the colors on this spare piece of pressed glass before using it on a more expensive piece.
You can get a starter set of Pebeo Vitrail. We like to buy larger bottles now, and think the best prices is from DickBlick.com
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