Glass painting

There are various ways to paint/ decorate glass such as using stick on outliners, using relief outliners, or even spraying on a frosting with reliefs masked out. I use transparent glass paint that is left to dry but there are also paints that reqire drying in an oven to give more of a glazed finish.

When working with glass ensure that the surface you are working on is clean and free of any fingerprints!



I have decorated a vase which measures 25cm high x 7.5







Choose the pattern you want and print/ draw it out. cut it to size and stick on the inside of the vase using low tack paper tape.

With a relief outliner trace the pattern onto the glass. I have used a silver one as I sometimes find black too harsh. Make sure that touching lines do touch and any areas that are to be painted in later are "closed" with no breaks in the outliner.

Take the pattern out of the vase and leave to dry for about an hour.
If you make any mistakes or want to start again you can soak it in warm, soapy water or if you wait until it's dry the

outliner will scrape off.

When the outliner is completely

dry you can add colour by painting in closed areas. I have used yellow in the top half of the leaves and orange in the bottom. You have to be generous with the paint as it doesn't spread that well and to get an even covering you need enough paint to cover the entire surface of the area.

To frost your glass cut out your required shape/s from sticky back plastic, stick onto glass, then spray. As quickly as you can, without touching the wet frosting, peel off plastic and leave to dry.