Painting glasses by own hands

Of course, painted glasses can not be givenonly for the wedding. They will be an excellent gift for the New Year, Valentine's Day, March 8 or Birthday. You can paint not only wine glasses and wine glasses for champagne, but beer glasses and thin glasses for soft drinks.

So, if you decide to try painting glasses, you will need such materials and tools:

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  actually glasses;
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  paper;
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  a pencil or a marker;
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  scissors;
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  Scotch;
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  a special circuit (in a tube or in the form of a marker);
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  paints on glass;
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  brushes or palette knives (depending on the type of paints);
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  cotton wheels;
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  cotton buds;
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  toothpick;
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  degreaser.

Additionally, you may need a carbon copy or printer, a transparent acrylic lacquer for glass.

To start a few words about the types of paints on the glass. The painting of glasses can be made opaque (covered) or transparent (stained-glass) paints. Opaque paints are usually made on the basis of acrylic, they are water resistant and durable.

Stained Glass Paints are fired and non-combustible. Covered product fired paints, after applying the paint bake in the oven. Do not fix non-burning paints with firing. Non-burning paints on an alcohol basis are water resistant and durable. Paints for painting glass on a water basis are afraid of water, so do not paint glasses with such colors. Beginners are usually advised to start with stained-glass paints on an alcohol basis.

Before taking on the painting of glasses, you need degrease the surface, so that the paint would go better. For degreasing, alcohol, acetone, and a detergent for glasses are suitable. Degreasing the glass, try not to touch it with your hands.

Then it should be done sketch of your drawing. You can draw it on a piece of paperyourself, and if your artistic abilities leave much to be desired, you can translate the drawing through a photocopy or find it on the Internet and print it on the printer. When the sketch is ready, cut it out, put it inside the glass and fix it with scotch tape.

Then you need to draw a picture on the glass (contour). Contours are different: universal and designed specifically for glass, in the form of tubes and markers. They can be black, transparent, gold or silver. The contour must be applied with a solid line, without interrupting it.

By applying a contour, you can take the paper out of the glass andallow the contour to dry. Usually it takes from 30 minutes to three hours (the exact time can be found on the package with paint). Then the painting of the glasses continues filling the path. Depending on the type of paints they are applied orbrush, or squeezed out of the tube, and thick fired paints are applied with the help of a small palette knife. If the paint is liquid, the surface of the glass should be placed strictly horizontally so that the paint does not spread out.

Flaws when applying paint or a contour cleaned with a cotton swab dipped in a solvent, and air bubbles with a toothpick. After applying the paint, the glass should dry, this will take from 6 hours to 24 hours, depending on the type of paint.

Then you need to fix the paint. For non-burning paints, clear acrylic lacquer for glass. A glass, painted with burnt paints, bake in the oven (make sure that the glass is made of heat-resistantglass, which can withstand high temperatures). The glass is put in a cold oven, it is heated to 150-180 ° C and baked the glass for 10 minutes. Then the glass should be allowed to cool and only then remove it from the oven.

The painting of glasses can be completed decorative elements: sequins, small beads, rhinestones,colored sand. All this beauty is glued to the glass with the help of transparent glue. As a final touch, you can tie a bow on a leg with a thin ribbon.