How to Paint on Glass with Lisa Vogt

yeah yeah yeah don't you better cut this no it's St all right here in the studio okay here in the studio we've been taping a bunch of stuff and I just had a need to move because I've been standing still a bit and I just needed to get a little bit of blood flow through my body for this next video which I'm really excited about which is how to p paint on glass this topic is brought to you by a wonderful subscriber who is watching our videos and asked how do you paint on glass so here we are right here in the studio com you know covering this topic for you because you made a comment and because we enjoy bringing you things that are relevant for you in your glass work and how to paint on glass is a terrific question and a terrific topic so there is traditional method for painting on glass and that's the type of things you might see in churches where they're depicting faces and hands and clothing long time ago you know before they had glass fusing and before they had you know these mix of colors they were working with what we call transparent or cathedral colors and in order to give those colors some depth in order to give the design the pattern the pictoral scene that they're trying to create um authenticity and you know actual subject matter they would paint on the glass so they would take if it was a red robe they take a red glass they would add black lines to it it's called outlining black and then for the faces they would take a neutral color maybe a tan or a clear and they would add layers of color to it to create a a flesh tone and then they would on top of that add more and more more detail to get a great sense of depth uh three-dimensional quality expression and all that so when we're talking about painting on glass there's a couple of different ways that you can do that now in glass fusing one of the fastest funnest easiest ways to get painting on your glass is to use out black outlining medium it comes in a tube it's uh comes wet but as you use it you may have to add some water to it to reconstitute get a really nice the trick to it is getting a nice flow of the medium coming out of the bottle when the flow is nice you get terrific results this right here the word welcome is made with the black outlining medium it's really powdered glass with a um wet agent that allows you to paint it on the glass when it comes out of the tube it's kind of a dark gray you paint it on then after it dries you go back in it's not always neat and tidy like this you may go back in with a point of a toothpick the point of a pencil uh a tip of a Raisor blade or razor knck clean it up and make it so it's really nice and neat it's um temporary until it's fired once it's fired to a full fuse temperature then it's permanent and it won't wipe off and it'll stay there so it's a great way to quickly and easily get lettering or other design and detail on your fused glass art because the firing process makes it permanent you're firing the glass anyway so this is an example of using the paint to create lettering which lettering can be awkward in glass fusing because you don't want it to be chunky or lumpy or um you know big like here I did lettering with stringers to try to make it look like they were kind of um little sticks because this is representing fall here so I like that method but you you see it's much bulkier than this this is really clean and neat and tight and sometimes that's what you're looking for this right here is another example of the same type of paint here I use the paint to create details on these tree trunks these are oh gosh what kind of trees are these birch trees thank you Nikki these birch trees I wanted them to have a little bit more detail so that they would register to the viewer not just white lines in my design but actually more like trees so that subtle little extra detail is really nice very fast and easy to put on and then again the firing process makes it permanent the nice thing about that is if you apply those lines or the letter and you don't like it you can wipe it right off you can do it 500 times if you want to until you get it just right then you can fire it and it's permanent and then you can apply more on top of it if you'd like to or you know work around it whatever it also medium also comes in different colors comes in green and blue and purple and red and uh peach and pink so you have a nice variety of colors to choose from if you want to do more elaborate painting to be honest I've not used this paint very much with brushes for the most part I'm using an applicator tip to make these tiny little lines here I just use the tip that in the bottle which is like an eye dropper tip uh when I've used it for brushing I haven't really when I want to paint on glass in that method and get broad Strokes I generally use powdered frit to create that design detail so uh you might want to try it with brushes I haven't really done that so I can't really give you my expence oh maybe Nicki saying we make another video oh gosh okay we'll do that we'll try it we'll try you can watch us uh succeed or fail which we'll do either we'll do it all actually oh gosh hold on traditional glass painting is a little different it actually takes a painter's um eye and a painter's touch and a painter's skill in order to use it on your glass so generally what will happen is let's take a you know a sting on window know to church for example um what they do first is they give the glass some tooth some texture it makes the painting easier tooth means we sand blast the glass ever so slightly to give it a little bit of a texture here's an example of a piece of glass see how it has a little bit of a matte texture to it that's because it's been sand blasted here's got the matte finish let me turn it over and you'll see that this side has the shiny finish okay the paint will stick better to material that has a little bit of texture to it so very very lightly sand blast it you could take sandpaper to it you could take you know a variety of other methods to get that little bit of texture there but it'll be much easier to do these paints they come in a little envelope of dry powder material it's basically groundup glass then you take a piece of clear glass as a pallette and you mix the dry material with water and some sort of sticking agent the sticking agent might be what's called waterf friendly medium it might be um seven up soda with you taking the bubbles out of it might be a sugary water type of substance something that helps it stick to the glass so this piece of glass right here is the test piece that I made for a project or a panel that I call Carnival that is well known in the glass industry as a stained glass window where I use 10 different assembly techniques so this was a very elaborate complicated piece of art so I wanted to make a prototype of the face first and make sure I liked it so this is a piece of white glass cut to size I sand blasted it to give it texture then I went in with what we call outlining black outlining black is powder black material you mix it with a sticking agent and some water and then you use a paintbrush to apply it to the glass now because the glass has texture it sticks you can um fine-tune it do whatever you want to it or totally wipe it off anytime in this working stage once you want to become permanent then you fire the Kil to a lower temperature about 11 to 1200° trees to make that paint permanent so in the traditional stained glass windows what they would do is they would do the outlining material first then they go in add the tonal qualities the skin tones and then they keep building that up one layer on top of another on top of another so they get to the point where they like it then they fire it to make it permanent then I can wash on top of this I can add a layer if I hate it I can wash it off I can add build up more and more and more thing is the paint doesn't build up well on itself because every time you get that bottom layer it wants to disappear or become blurry so that's why you work in layers so this is the plain white glass on the bottom with the sand blassed texture and the outlining black on it so after this I would add tonal qualities and colors and then this was my test piece to decide which tonal qualities I wanted to add to make the face give it some color contour and a sense of setting so this is a nighttime scene this Carnival piece is a nighttime scene so I chose to use this color as my shadowing features for the face so this test piece here is the white glass sand blasted and then I took a nice broad paintbrush uh these different types of dry material paint mix them with water and a sticking agent apply them to the glass and then fired it to make it permanent as a sample so this type of painting is really fun and exciting a lot of these paints contain lead or materials that are not uh food safe or necessarily safe to handle so you want to be careful read the labels you buy these materials these paint on these paints professional paints at your art glass supplier so what you probably want to purchase would be the outlining black and then a variety of other colors and then the idea is to get some really nice for this technique you want to use kind of a pointy paintbrush for this technique You' want to use kind of a broad very soft paintbrush so it's a whole process it's a whole new and exciting method and direction to go now some artists you know in the fuse glass realm will use this to add detail to the pieces you'll see a lot of this technique used in glass patterns quarterly magazine projects it's a fun way to personalize the tonal qualities and the shading and something say you're making a flower petal and you want it to actually look like it's folded light and dark great way to do that basically making your own glass so a lot of fun there's definitely books on this and things you might if you are interested in doing this type of painting you want to research it more and of course there's tons of videos and tons of material out there to inform you as what materials you might need how you want to get started what would be your basic paints to bring into your studio and then what kind of brushes you want to use what kind of sticking agent and then of course you just have to practice with it until you get comfortable enough to try something now these paints are permanent once they're fired on now because we're not fusing glass together we're not requ you know we're not trying to melt two pieces together these are fired at lower temperature just enough to make that glass permanent to the surface and it is just a surface treatment now this is another little piece that I made for another project called uh the peacock and it's a piece of dichroic on the bottom then I painted then a piece of clear on top with this piece of dichroic between layers that's why I these little Min Min miniature bubbles there and I wanted a little extra detail on the peacock feather so I did this outlining black between layers so this is a very small um minuscule kind of application for this paint but it worked really well and of course I'm going to show you a picture of the finished piece you get an idea of how that that small little attention to detail really um added to the overall aesthetic of the finished piece of art which is really really beautiful so painting is another great way to add Dimension color tones personalization to your artwork you can do it in a very simple fashion with the readymade Ready Mixed material you can buy at your art glass supplier now this material is in general food safe lead free this material you're going to have to read the labels I don't know some colors are some colors are not lead free so you want to keep that in mind and take the proper safety precautions when using that material in your studio and the proper safety precautions when you're cleaning up the material in your studio so fast easy way to introduce yourself to painting comes in different colors you can certainly try it with a brush so far my applications have always been either with an applicator tip or with the tip of the bottle the um traditional painting uh beautiful method for adding you know a lot of depth and interest to your pieces of of art definitely um greater investment on your part for materials and supplies greater investment on your part in uh time spent getting accustomed to the material and learning how to use it and creating the design and the effects that you're looking for so in closing if you're interested in doing this technique fabulous do some research you know get some information and find out what works best for you and what style and type of design you're looking for and then it's a great way great direction to take your fused glass art so thanks for joining me please follow And subscribe to my YouTube Channel please comment please uh share we love that we love getting we get feedback every 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Channel: Lisa Vogt

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Keywords: glass, paint, painting on glass, glass fusing, fused glass, fused glass paint, how to, lisa vogt, dichroic

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Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 27 2024