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!