Color Sequence for Paints in Framed Glass Painting

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"DAVID A. CLEMEN: Hi, I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to paint a piece of glass inside of a frame. Okay, so I've decided to go with a tree and I'm going to put the sun in there as well. Now, when you're painting on glass, you have to kind of think in reverse because whatever color you put on first, that's going to be seen first. And so, you kinda build--and you also have to kind of draw in reverse. So like you can see here, I had to put the black down first and then I put the colors backwards and vice versa. You know, I can put the brown here, but that's the one that you see first, and then the background of that, I put this kind of mustard color here. So you just kinda have to think in terms of the layers going backwards versus when you paint on the opposite side. You just kinda paint as you go. So I'm going to start with--and when you paint with acrylic on glass, you don't want to use any water on the paint because it tends to streak if you put water on it and that's not gonna--it's not really going to help your painting at all. So I'm going to take a stiff brush and I'm just going to use a little bit of black here 'cause I want the outline of the tree to be black since the frame is black and the border is white. So I'm just going to come into this space that I marked out and I'm just going to do a really simple tree. And you have to get--you have to touch your paint up pretty often, because if it gets thin on here, it'll streak and you'll be able to see through. So you kinda have to reapply more often than when you're painting. But it's a smooth surface and it flows on there quite nicely. And I actually need more paint. And we'll continue this in the next segment."