Instructions for Reverse Glass Painting

Instructions for Reverse Glass Painting,

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* One example of instructions for reverse glass painting is lower on this page. Scroll it to read how my instructions take you step by step through the painting. There are 2 paintings per set of instructions for reverse painting.

* There are 2 instructions for reverse glass painting per set. The other instructions for reverse glass painting create a painting of 2 aquarium fish.

Here’s Looking At You Kid! instructions for reverse glass painting

* First, you will need to write your signature on the tracing paper with a very dark pen or marker. Tape it onto the plexi-glass pane, near the bottom and over toward the left corner. Tape it on so that you can read it correctly. Now take picture #1, painting #1, and tape that to the plexi-glass, facing down. Let the tape go right over the edge of the plexi-glass. Turn the whole taped together thing over.

* ‘Write’ your name, following the lines of your signature on the tracing parer. When you shake up the paint to mix it, you will only need a little at a time, so dip your paint brush in a couple times, and wipe it off into one of the little plastic bowls. You can rinse them out with water when you are done to keep them clean for the next time. If you leave the paint open too long, it will dry out.

* Starting with some clean white paint, paint in the reflections of the eyes. You can just dip in once or twice with the brush, and close up the paint again.

* Now you are going to need some black paint. Dip in the brush 5 or 6 times, putting the paint into a small plastic bowl. Now, stay away from the white that you painted, and begin to paint in the huge black iris area of the eyes.

* There is also a partial semi circular ring around part of the pupil to paint black. By the time you get to the white paint, just paint right up to the edge of it.

* The frog has a few freckles below his chin, so just barely touch the glass with the tip of the brush to paint them in. If you get too much paint on the glass, wipe the edge with a tissue over your finger to remove the excess. Rinse out your brush.

* Get about 3 or 4 brushes full of the green paint in the plastic bowl, the same way you did the black paint. Mix in a little of the black paint to make it the darkest green.

* There are some areas under the eyes and around the nose that need that. Rinse the brush out, and wipe it dry with a paper towel.

* Dip into the white just once, and mix it into the green. You can paint in the top of the head and that small part of the face with this. Rinse out the brush. Be sure to keep your paint brush clean, or it will get stiff, and hard to use.

&Dip the paint brush into the yellow paint, and go directly to the fingers of the frog on the left side of the painting.

* Now this part is kind of odd, but the lighter you touch the brush to the glass, the truer the color will stay. So where the color is the yellowest, touch very lightly, and where it looks thinner, press down just a tiny with the brush to get the shiney spots of his toes.

* You might want to turn the painting sideways for this next part of instructions for reverse painting, with the signature at the top.

* Dip the paint brush into the red paint, and mix it into a small wet part of the green, mixing it with little circular motions. After a couple circles around you will get a brown color.

* Use the pencil-stick to make the shadow between the two lips of the frog. It’s going to go all the way from one side of his face to the other.

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Here’s Looking At You Kid! instructions for reverse glass painting

Step 2

* Untape Step 1 from the glass, and tape on Step 2. You may need help to get things lined up in the right place.

For this part, you are going to want to use the flat plastic disc to mix paints on. On one side of the disc, put 3 brushes full of white paint. Now dip into the black paint just a little, right in the center, only once.

* Touch the brush down once, away from the white so that you have less paint on the brush. Mix the brush into the white paint with the circular motions, and you will get a light grey.

* On the other side of the disc, get 3 brushes full of green paint, and 2 brushes of red paint. Mix the red into the green, and it will turn brown.

* Wipe the brush on the disc, near the red and green mixture, so there is only a little paint on the brush. Mix it in to the light grey that you have on the other side of the disc. Use the very lighter part for the top part of the circle that goes around the eyes.

* Get it a little darker for the bottom parts of the circle. Don’t worry about overlapping the black part in the middle of the eye. It will not hurt anything. Let the light grey mix into the darker grey a little.

* Anywhere on the painting that the color does not come out the way you want it to, you can always add in a different color to change it.

* What I mean is that if a green shade came out dark, and you want it a little lighter, clean the brush, and put in some yellow to brighten it, or some white to lighten it.

* That works when the paint is wet, but it also works if the paint is dry, but very thin. When you are finished painting for a while, clean off the disc, you’re going to need it again.

* If you ran out of white paint on the disc, get some more. If you already have it, dip into it, and where the face has shiney parts, drop in some white dabs.

* Dip into the yellow paint, and mix it into the green on the disk. Use this to paint in the rest of the frogs face.

* You might need to get some more yellow to keep the green nice and bright. You can paint in some of the frog’s arms where they are ‘closest’ to you too. This is getting so very good!

Step 3 instructions for reverse glass painting

* Take off the step 2 paper, and tape on the Painting 1 Picture 3 paper. Once again, you may need some help lining things up.

* Think of your disc as being a clock face. Between 12 o’clock and three o’ clock, get a big gob of white paint. Between 6 o’clock and 9, put in a much smaller puddle of black paint. Between 3 o’clock and 6 o’clock you’re going to need quite a bit of green, and half that amount of red. Between 9 and 12 o’clock, you want some yellow. If you don’t get enough paint out, it’s o.k. You can always get some more out.

* Mix the green into the red until you get the brown color. Make it light by adding white paint.

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Here’s Looking At You Kid instructions for reverse glass painting

* Use just the one brush of that color, and mix it into the edge of the yellow paint. This is the color you will need to paint in the lips of the frog.

* After you paint in the lips that go all the way across his face, you can mix some more of the white paint into the brown , to make a lighter brown.

* Stay under the lips until they get dry, and start painting in some of the body. When the lips get dry, take it right up to the bottom edge of the lips.

* Working with the lighter colors first, notice that there is a lot of yellow in the shoulder on the left of the frog. That same yellow color is on the top part of his hind leg that’s on the right side of the painting. And there’s more of it down in his fingers.

* That shadow on the lower part of his chest is not entirely black. There is a lot of the brown, made with more of the red than the green. Keep painting! Isn’t this fun?

* If you turn the painting upside down again, you can work on his face.

* You will need to add some yellow to the green to make it that bright green. You can let it get a little darker near the edges of his eye holder parts, and down near his upper lip.

* When you turn it back right side up, put some green in his arm on the left, and back under where his leg is.

* When you think that all of the frog is painted, give him a little black edge under the ends of his toes, under his chest, and under his back leg. This is the shadow that he cast on the rock that he’s sitting on. Rinse off all of your painting stuff while the frog dries. Take a break if you need one! You earned it!

Step 4 instructions for reverse glass painting

* For this, you are going to need jut a tiny of the brown that you make with the red and green paint, a small amount of black, and quite a bit of white paint.

* If you hold the brush at a right angle to the plexi glass, ( that’s straight up and down ) By just barely touching the end of the brush down you can put in a lot of the tiny shadows in the rock with the brown paint. aDo te same with the black paint.

* Some of the rock looks like it’s white, so where it’s white, go ahead and get some white paint in there. Mix just a little black and brown into the white, and paint in the whole rock.

* It’s all right to paint over a little of the frog. It won’t even show when it’s finished.

* When you get near the parts you painted white, just let the paints blend together at the edges. Fill in the whole rock area.

* Turn the painting upside down to finish the back ground. This part will be mostly white mixed with only a little of the brown. Before you mix it though, paint in the dark areas behind the frog, then mix that brush into the white to take some of the sharpness out of the white.

* Go ahead and fill in all of the area behind the frog. When it dries, your masterpiece will be complete! Congrats! What a good job you did with your instructions for reverse glass painting!

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