Glass Painting

So, I'm de-stashing supplies in my studio & I came across a whole box of

GlassLine Paints.

I bought them over 10 years ago.  Yikes~!

I only experimented a little & I didn't have a lot of success.

Due to my production schedule I don't have a lot of time to experiment

with new processes so back to the shelf they were sent.

I've been working with float glass recently so I thought I'd pull the

GlassLine Paints back out & experiment a little as I had some room in the kiln.

~  Here's a few examples ~

The Flowers piece above was outlined in black paint & then fired. This is a traditional

glass technique called "tracing."  After the black tracing was fired I applied the colored

glass paint inside the lines.  One thing I learned is that the paint has to be thinned quite

a bit with water.  Thinning helps it to "pool" & "flow" into the space.

I'm working on the reverse side of the glass.

Here's another attempt at the reverse painting.

Tracing in black paint & then filling in with colors.

A little more success with shading & blending some of the paint which is hard

to do when you're working on the reverse side of the glass.

Here's another piece that was created by fusing glass together & then

applying the tracing & masks/matting.  Masking is thin layers

of enamels applied over the glass in layers, allowed to dry, & then

removed with sgraffito technique to reveal the colors below.

It's a long process with multiple firings in the kiln.  GlassLine looks

best to me when it's fired at a full fuse of 1500 degrees.  At this temperature

the float glass also has nice rounded edges & a shinny finish.