How to Trace a Pattern for Glass Painting

Video Transcript

"JASON PAINTER: Hi. I'm Jason and today, we're painting on glass. We just washed our glass. We're waiting for it to dry really well. We've already got our design picked out. We've got our paints. What we're going to do next, even though we drew the design or we printed it off the Internet, whatever we did to get our design, we're going to have to trace this onto the glass with the liner. If you're not too sure about your art skills, a really good way to do is to take a sharpie and go over the design you're going to go and put on the glass and just draw it right on there. It's going to be just tracing right over it and just gets in your memory and makes it so that your hand flows more evenly when you go in the glass. You're not so shaky. If you want to do it more than once, twice, three times, whatever, it takes to make you feel comfortable. And it also gives you another--a bigger outline because the top of your liner is thicker and it won't be so deceiving with this thin line. You can follow almost exactly with the liner. So we'll just finish outlining this, and you're going to want to draw on the outside edge when you get to the eyes. You're going to want to draw the outside edge. That way, it stays in the same shape and size that you had originally drawn. Now, you've got it thick--you've got it in your memory and it's thicker lines. If you feel like doing it one more time, it would--it never hurts."