Something I was working on last week before I left was testing the effects of various paints on the acrylic, and I wanted to see what some of the glass paints that I had could do. So I popped over to a stained glass site that offered free patterns, and rehydrated some of my nearly gone paints. (Don’t recommend that by the way, they must use something like ammonia as a base in those things…nearly passed out a couple of times. Just buy new paints if you need them.)
Anyway, the paints I had were in pretty bad shape in a couple of places, but the potential for making your own stained glass is there…I just did a small test frame.
You can see through it just fine, but a couple of the colors were still a little clumpy. Fresh paint would work a lot better. This was the Gallery Glass paints by Plaid. (Some were textured and some were transparent, I wanted to try both. Stick with the transparent.)
It’s a paint that simulates the leading found between stained glass panels. It’s raised above the “glass”, and when you flood the panels with the thinner colors, it looks like true stained glass.
Oooo, very nice project! I really like that design. I’ve got a stained glass project in progress as well (great minds think alike?). Got lucky–Michaels is clearing out their stained glass paint kits and I got some for a big discount.
No it flattens a bit - looks just like stained glass leading actually…we have an all glass walled shower and I put a large design on it in key locations that lasted several years in a totally humid environment before I finally got tired of it and scraped it off.