I’m supposed to be working on my Painting E-Course and
finishing up this gorgeous gray and silver table but instead I played
hooky. Hooky is what we call it in California
you don’t go to school and instead go to the beach or to a café. Of course, one can play hooky and
not go to work also. This Diario
di Design is kind of like always playing hooky for me.
So I played hooky because I became inspired to do a vignette
of tarnished silver and painted glass, then I thought it would be fun to just
add silver leaf to encourage more reflection.
I painted these little vases (jars, bottles and a wine glass) with
pink glass paint and I let it dry a couple of hours. The more layers you paint
the richer the color becomes.
I thought I might be able to just put on the silver leaf
right over the wet glass paint and it would attach. I was wrong. It
just became messy and didn’t stick.
So I waited and later I added the silver leaf glue, one coat
wasn’t enough, because it wouldn’t stick to the glass. So I painted another layer and waited
more.
Then because it was so hard to see where I had painted the
glue I just rolled the vases right on top of the silver leaf still in the
tissue packet. The silver leaf sticks to where you paint the glue.
I think if you try
to do a precise design it might drive you crazy because the glue dripped down
the glass and my hands became too messy with silver leaf and glue. So a sloppy haphazard design is better here in my opinion,
but then obviously many of you are more artistically talented and dare I say, anal retentive
than me!
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Sette Design- Painting Techniques |
I think another process might be to tape it out and then
after the silver leaf process, do the glass paint. But I wanted the color to come through the silver leaf.
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Sette Design Painting with Glass Paint |
Anyone inspired to play with glass paint and silver leaf or
just play with flowers? All these
flowers (except the roses) are from our balcony garden. Aren’t they just splendid?
Ha una bella weekend!
Cheers,
Natalie
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