Glass Painting Patterns

Reverse Glass Painting Kits?



Glass painting patterns are the first thing you will want to consider when creating a painting. The first thing the painter will want to consider, is the subject, or the pattern of the reverse glass painting. In starting anything new it's always best to begin with baby steps to avoid tripping, so keep it simple. After reverse glass painting for 8 or 9 years now, and making mistakes along the way, I began to develop a few glass painting patterns that were not only very attractive, but also very simple; at times to the point of elegance. Please feel free to download, copy, and use any of the patterns that I have made for this exact purpose. I did work with them myself, after drawing them, and it took less than two hours to complete, when using simple patterns for glass painting.

In every painting, a point is reached when there is enough detail, and any more will do nothing but detract from the main pattern. please, " Just the facts, Maam ".

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One way to make your own glass painting patterns is to take a photograph of the desired subject, adjust it's size to the size you would like to work with, Tape it to te back side, the side of the glass that you are not painting on. The next step is to 'draw' the outlines of the last things that went into the painting.

After this is done, you may or may not want to remove the photo from the back side of the glass. If you leave it there while you're painting, it will provide a wonderful pre cast allignment to work with. If you remove it, you will be working with your imagination, and end up with a painting truely your own. It's a win win situation.

Depending on one's personal preferance, there are so many places to find patterns to use for reverse painting on glass, or design your own glass painting pattern from a photograph. There are some absolute beauties in books, such as Coloring Mandalas, by Susanne F. Fincher. This book has many patterns of Circles of the Sacred Feminine. The public library is still a wonderful source for such things. Childrens coloring books will also provide some basic patterns to use, and don't forget the beauty of simplicity, especially for a beginner. I will be adding a few of my own patterns to this page in the near future, so please keep this site on your favorites list.

Another place to look is under photography on the internet. I found so many wild animals that the photographers offer to artists to use for art purposes. What a supply.


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