BS: Oil painting on glass

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 06:21 PM

Verre Églomisé

hinterglasmalerei

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Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: GUEST,The Space Man
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:47 PM

I have been painting on glass for years, a good method for a stained glass effect is using translucent paint, experiment using tinfoil as a background, this really looks like stained glass.
Holding the finished painting to the light and watch the translucent paint come alive.

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 05:16 AM

In Victorian times it was popular to paint on windows, which helped to 'bring the garden indoors', and to paint on the inside of picture glass which had a gap between the glass and the picture proper, thus giving a 3D effect.
An lady I met used a colour copier to layer pictures to get the same effect.

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 07 - 05:44 PM

I did 5 today (3 need more work) including an ink sketch of Leonard Bernstein on enamel.

I have gilding stuff that applies like shoe polish and all sorts of powdered pigment. I have some Escher prints that use chrome paper for the white and ink for the black.

I did use a mirror poster paper today with transparent paint.
It is predictably very metallic looking.
Outside I thought I would try setting the volitile transparent paint on fire. Poof the flames went over a foot high. I titled that one big bang.
A huge red O'Keefe like rose was too pretty to set on fire.

Most oil paints can be made to be transparent

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: The Walrus
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 08:45 PM

Donuel,

Another technique for you to try is to gild onto the glass (usually water gilding, but oil gilding can be used to vary the effect) and then 'carve' away the excess, to leave the gold* just where required.
Powdered gold can also be used mixed with a suitable carrier medium.
The gilding can be protected by painting over the back of it.
This gilding, combined with glass painting (as required), is a technique known as Verre Églomisé (I believe it's sometimes known by the German term 'hinterglasmalerei').
There are a number of sites which show the effect, it may be worth considering this as another tool in the box.

Just an idea

Walrus


* Silver can also be used

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 10:26 AM

Congratulations, Donuel! I'm glad to hear about your paintings and the happiness they bring you. I would be interested in seeing a photo someday.

Good luck with the stopping of smoking, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: GUEST,Liz Vicious
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:48 AM

There are two manufacturers of glass paints which I would recommend. The best in my opinion is Deka. It's oil based. The other is a French company, Pel or pic,,,, something.

They can be bought direct from UK agents, "Specialised crafts" or "Smitcraft", both craft suppliers. Also you can obtain the lead outliner in gold, silver, black or grey. This looks great on glass, also works great as a channel to stop colours running into eachother.

Working on glass is very effective, can play up on the eyes though, you tend to get doubles images on quality mirrors, so stick to the cheap ones.

It's a lovely hobby, my work in this area has become well known locally. Craft shops and tourist centres tend to go for it a lot.

Try working on drinking glasses, place the image you wish to copy on the inside of glass and trace with lead outliner, it's not actual lead, it's a plastic.

Enjoy

Liz

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:11 AM

Keep it up, Don! You are GOOD! Links, please, to the oils on glass?

Subject: RE: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:06 AM

Have you tried the oil painting technique on mirrors?

Subject: BS: Oil painting on glass
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:00 AM

Man is this cool. Brush strokes look gorgeous and bend the light in perfect arcs while light shines through select areas.
A drying oil works like glue. Layer the glass and you can have as many layers of color and backgrounds as you want. Cheap glass shatters but tempered storm windows for big buildings are indestructible but also weigh 50 pounds +
Hang them in a window and the subject floats in mid air.
This doesn't look like stained glass and probably has been done before but its new for me.

I'm also now doing invisible portraits (visible in darkness), color changing landscapes and a tall deep sea encounter painting between whales and strange craft.
While 3 are drying I do 3 more so something is always moving forward.

I now have the first full color painting made by a robot built at the mechatronics lab at Johns Hopkins University. Since it uses spray paint we let it do a painting on heavy gloss paper in my backyard. The robot's designer is Yonaton Lasko.
The robot's name was Can Dinsky and the result was a phantasmagorical dreamscape that is transmogrifyingly surreal.
and I ain't jus whislin Dixie.

An art agent is coming by Tuesday but I feel woefully unprepared.
It took me 4 hours just to look at select digital pictures I did in the last 7 years and have 75% more to review. But that will have to wait.

Time to take out the garbage do the dishes and eat another Commit losenge. no more cigs for me
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