How To Begin Wine Glass Painting

Hello, my name's Kevin Shenton. I'm the UK manager of Marabu Creative. We've managed to put together a range of videos showing all aspects of fabric, textile painting along with glass painting and porcelain painting.

Right, we're going to go on now and show you glass painting as a technique onto a wine glass. It could be a champagne flute for a special occasion, could be a traditional tumbler for a child or a normal glass, could be a plastic item, and Chrissie's going to use again a peel-off because it shows an easy design. You can, quite easily with these, work with your own design and if you want to, just adhere the image on the inside with a piece of masking tape, any image so if we were taking the suncatcher and we want to put that, we'd put that behind, adhere it with masking tape or a bit of blue tack and then we copy that on the outside of the glass.

Chrissie now has only done one design on this. She's going to do this for the other side of the glass, again, using a peel-off. These peel-offs are traditionally decorative peel-offs that are used in card making and a whole range of other craft applications.

They are on a standard sheet of film, normally about 8 inches by 4 inches. There's a whole range of designs on one sheet for under a pound. Chrissie's now adhered that to the exterior of the wineglass and again doesn't need to use the outline for this because we'll keep this on the outside of the glass perfect for gentle handwashing and we're now going to decorate this with Marabu's GlasArt glass paint.

I may need to help Chrissie here. Another idea with this to have when we turn the glass over, you always want to keep the glass generally flat, working as you do again from the inside to out and we'll need a piece of blue tack or a piece of masking tape. I'll hold this for Chrissie.

But at home, it would be ideal if you had masking tape or blue tack handy and again in using the brush, we're decorating the surface of the glass with Marabu's GlasArt in this occasion. It could be Decorglas, our water-based, both are suitable, and then Chrissie's outlining the individual colour. Now, we've got an opportunity afterwards allowing this to dry, 40 minutes to an hour, really touched dry depending on the amount of paint you put on.

We've got an opportunity to gently peel off the peel-off because it's not a permanent item, it's only there for decoration and we can actually peel off the individual peel-off so that we can actually reveal the image behind it. And again there, Chrissie's quite easily shown the peel-off is in just one colour within the Marabu range, the GlasArt, available for under a couple of pounds and also available in our set. It gives you an idea of a perfect gift for a love one or a friend, personalized wineglasses, and these we've used on this occasion are inexpensive from a supermarket, 4 for a hundred of pounds, and you've got a personalized wineglass that nobody else will have and that's unique.

That is Marabu's glass paints onto a wineglass, could be a tumbler, could be a champagne flute. .