Window Painting - Part 1

Someone recently gave me two old vintage windows to paint on. It is a scary new project with something I've never tried before, but here I go again! I will be using opaque acrylics directly on the glass, so where it's painted you will no longer be able to see through it, but I'm leaving sections unpainted for an interesting effect, it will NOT look like stained glass...this is all crazy experimentation so it's just gonna be fun and (hopefully!) stress free, mistakes are allowed!

I couldn't find much about painting on glass techniques through the internet so I'm going to try and make up my own fun and easy instructions!

If you like what you see, try it out for yourself!



Start off by giving your window a good scrub, my window has beautiful worn vintage paint but is very dirty, I cleaned the glass and left the wooden parts alone for now, I don't want the pretty green paint to come off the wood. You don't want any dirt on the glass or it will really mess up the way your paint sticks to the glass.

If you have a design in mind, now is the time to print it out, having your print sized to fit your glass piece is great because you can simply place it under your glass and copy it! Printing it like that is too much work for me (especially since my window is HUGE!) so I free-handed my sketch (on the opposite side of the glass that I will be painting) using an oil pastel, crayons also work well, you want to make sure that whatever you use for your pre-sketch is easily removable so there's plenty of room to erase mistakes.

This is my basic sketch without details, I used the blue for the leaves so I don't get them confused with the wispy branches.

The leaves won't actually look like cotton candy, but I just needed to reserve space for them in my painting =P

I just love the beautiful green wood!

That's all for now! I will post more about the actual painting process soon!

Ahhh, more reptile projects!

I want to be able to spend time with my pets, and lately I've only been caring for their health needs and forgetting to just love them. Of course the only remedy is a project! I won't be taking any more reptile rescues and I'm going to spend some time making each of my pet's homes an eye-catching naturalistic vivarium that is beautiful enough to put in any main living space where they can demand someone's attention (mine!).

Enclosure list:

• The Reefers, Shawn and Jules.
• Zar, my crested gecko
• Fallyn, the bearded dragon (this is certainly going to be the biggest project)

I'm gonna start off with the reefers because they're small and it will be kinda like a test before the big stuff...I'm hoping to make these terrariums a sort of zen garden, where I can chill out while designing and upkeeping my tiny zoo.

They will each be different, but I would like for each of them to be very naturalistic and each have a water feature...we'll see how this goes!