Using Masking Tape for Framed Glass Painting

Video Transcript

"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. All right. On glass and even with other paintings, you can use artist tape or masking tape to keep certain areas clear of paint until you want to add paint later. So right now, I'm just going to put a border of masking tape around where I want to keep the--I want to keep it clean, basically. So I'm just gonna--and you have to be careful because the paint is still wet right now. So I'm just going to put a piece down there, and then I'm going to tear some smaller pieces and you can just set them on the side, and I like to use different sizes. I don't really cut 'em with scissors or anything. I'm just going to stick those there, here, here. I'm going to use a smaller one there. Okay, because I don't want to cover--I'm using the masking tape partly because I don't want to cover all the glass with paint because I want whoever's looking at it to know that it is glass that I did paint on. So this kinda helps in that process, and also I'm just very careful not to cover everything in paint 'cause then it just kinda looks like a painting in a frame. So I'm just going to fill in a few more areas with tape. And then after we paint everything later, we'll go back and peel this off with an X-acto knife or we might be able to peel it off by hand. And that is how you can apply masking tape to your glass painting."