In my first foray into this art medium, i chose what were to be two of my first templates. That post can be found here: Faux stained glass painting. This post covers what I will be doing with the second template and a slightly different approach to what I hope to achieve.
I have already traced an outline onto my glass and this time instead of using paint and glue for the lead effect I have used a Pentel permanent marker. I will do the painting on the opposite side of the outline as this will allow me to make amendments to either the outline or the paint without interfering with each other. Because the paint is mixed with glue this can easily be peeled off and re painted. The outline can be amended by using a cotton bud and some IPA. Making changes with the outline and the paint on the same side would require cleaning the whole glass and starting again from scratch. I want to avoid that, so that’s why I’m experimenting.
I’ve brought some new Acrylic paints, and will be using slightly more glue in the mix to try and achieve a slightly more translucent effect, to assist with the effect I’m trying to achieve.
As you can see I will be using a box frame for this piece. What I want to do in this example is to put some lights in the frame, but to ensure the light is not too harsh I want to put some opaque tissue immediately behind the glass to act as a diffuser. I’ll get around to this later in this post.
Let’s get painting.
Today i’m using a small light box under the glass so i can get a good idea of how the paint is going down. It also saves me from constantly having to lift the glass to the light to see how it is looking. The glass is very thin and the less it is handled the better.
When dry I just flip the glass over and go over the out lines once again, this time I’m going to add a small sting of lights into the box for display at night.
I’m a tad unsure about the lights but I’ll have to wait until it’s dark before I make my mind up about this one. Been fun, I’ve enjoyed it but I’m sitting on the fence regarding the lights, but you never know what’s liable to happen unless you give it a try. I may try the foil trick on this one as I think it may be more effective.
Thanks for passing by, it’s always appreciated.
Foxes Den 
You closed comments on the other post, but I just wanted to let you know that I think these look great and I am very happy you posted this. I didn’t say anything at the time, but these faux stained glass posts set me down a pleasant rabbit hole. I’m close to an artist and I forwarded this and asked if she can do this stained glass project for me, that I have a special idea of some stained glass art to commemorate my alcohol recovery and how well I am doing. So, you definitely put some good into the world that day. I noticed you liking my posts consistently some time ago, so one day I decided to follow back and I’m glad I did. Hope your day and week gets better.
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Thank you so very much. I don’t think you realise just how much that means to me. I just had a bit of a wobble, as happens from time to time. I’ve followed your posts closely as I can relate to a lot of what you write of. Thanks again. Thanks for putting a smile on my face.
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I’m glad – and yes, I certainly have plenty of my own wobbles. When you mentioned tossing things out it’s very much like something I would do.
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If these lovely pieces are in what you professed to have binned in a knee-jerk reaction to a bad day- you must go retrieve them at once!
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Thanks Violet. Exactly what my wife said. Just had a wobble. Items retrieved. Thank you. 🙏
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Very intriguing. I went to a paint your own choice of ceramic studio yesterday and made one of those for the first time. It was fun, but won’t know the end result for two weeks as they feal it with a heavy lacquer and then put it in the kiln before they give it back to you. I still might try one of these though, they look like I could do it.
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