How To Learn Glass Painting Techniques

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.

We're going to demonstrate to you now various techniques that are available for glass painting. Glass painting, because it dates back not a number but hundreds of years right back to traditional painting on church windows which are normally done with pieces of glass. We're now going to show you individual ways of decorating various materials.

Chrissie has in her right hand a peel-off glass paint. This is part of the Marabu Fun and Fancy range. This range was traditionally put together for the child market so that children could decorate various things normally using an outline underneath a plastic.

So here, Chrissie's taking a design from our Marabu book, a Christmas design because of the time we're producing this video is ideal, and she's produced a Santa with the outline, so the outline showing how easy it is with, we go in the design with the book, there's various rote free designs here within this book and you can see the whole range of Santa with the bag, Santa without the bag, and all we've done here is we've outlined using an acetate sheet onto it but again, you can use a self-adhesive vinyl, you can use a clip frame, you can use glass. But again, Chrissie's outlined this. We've just completed it and allowed it to dry.

Really, overnight would be ideal with the glass outline because you've bought an outline which is very much like the lead. And now, Chrissie's going to use the Marabu peel-off water-based fun and fancy paint to decorate this so that you could actually have a theme. Now, this is peel-off window design and peel-off window design is another form of glass painting.

But generally, this has been used for the children's market. We now have quite a few customers who use this for professional market for decorating. So, Chrissie will go in and we'll decorate this using our red, pink in colour when it's first applied, and black to give an outline and use the white as a snow effect for the beard using Marabu's Fun and Fancy.

I'll let Chrissie take off our wonderful piece of artwork and we'll apply it to a mirror. So you see, we've allowed this to dry. This is a glass technique using Marabu Fun and Fancy glass technique.

These plastic sheets can be used time and time again so you don't have to throw this away, just give it a wipe afterwards. Chrissie's taken it off the sheet. Ideally, if you find it not dry, allow a little bit longer to dry and on this one, just to show it to the camera, we've actually stuck it easily to the mirror, the one that we've got, vanity mirror.

Again you see, quite easily, they peel off, allow it to dry and it's a perfect glass painting technique using Marabu Fun and Fancy. If the child gets fed of that situation, once they stick it on the tile in the bathroom, once they stick it on the refrigerator, perfectly ideal for that and it will stick virtually anywhere, and then when to reapply, take it off and reapply, a little bit of warmth from a hairdryer and it's perfectly easy, glass painting technique using Marabu Fun and Fancy. .