Video: Glass Painting Tips

Reminders to be careful to avoid glass breakage and how to avoid streaking your paint while painting on glass; tips, tricks and techniques to change your old framed glass into new art pieces in this free online art lesson about painting taught by David A. Clemen.

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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 started painting my tree on the glass in a black outline and you want to paint it with care. One, you're working on glass and so you don't really need to press too hard. You don't want to take a chance of it breaking and cutting yourself. And also, when you paint and then you--when you put a stroke over what you've just painted, if you don't have enough paint, it will actually streak it and you'll have to continue to go over what you just did. So just kind of take your time and just get a lot of paint on there, and reapply often, re-dip your brush. Okay. And now I'm going to take this out here and do some roots since it's a really simple tree, and I'm just trying to take my time. And this is an example of--if I rush it, you'll see the streaks there and that's not what--I'm going for a solid stroke on here. So if I rush it, I'll get this right here, and also, if you add water, you'll get that as well. So take your time and paint with care.

Glass Painting Tips

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