Amazingly beautiful glass mosaic canvases have always attracted attention. Perhaps few of us would refuse the pleasure of decorating our home with them. Here are just professional stained glass drawings are not at all cheap. However, you can always try your own strength in creativity.
Mosaic technique
What is a stained glass window? This is a kind of puzzle made of glass parts. Light passes through multi-colored translucent elements, making the picture come to life. For home masters, there are three main ways to create such mosaic masterpieces. The most difficult are stained glass drawings assembled from prepared glass parts. A little easier is given a method based on the use of a special film. Well, a child will also cope with stained-glass paints . Now a little more about each method.
Jewelry work
Let's start with the hard part. Of course, you will have to make every effort, but as a result you get a stained glass window, which you can rightfully be proud of. So, we will need pieces of colored glass, a solution consisting of one part of cement, three parts of sand and one part of PVA glue. Some people prefer to work with silicate glue.
Now take the cardboard. The sheet should be dense and exactly the size of the future mosaic. Next, look at the finished scheme of stained glass drawings. They are not difficult to find. If you are not completely sure of your artistic taste, then choose the scheme on which the numbers corresponding to certain colors on the sketch are plotted. You can even search for kits that include a sketch, a numbered diagram, and a set of glass parts.
But, not finding this, do not be discouraged. Transfer the pattern to the cardboard, gently outline the contours of each element with ink. Next, you need to cut all these elements out of colored glass with a glass cutter. Try to be extremely accurate and careful. Still, cutting into sharp edges is easy. Cut the sliced pieces of the future masterpiece to the scheme and check the sketch. It is better to clean the edges of the parts in the final with an emery bar.
Then you need to connect all the elements with glue, which is applied to the joints.
There is a technique without the use of glue. It requires a metallized foil. She wrap elements of the picture. Then there is a soldering of parts. Seams firmly connect all the elements of the mosaic.
Film stained glass drawings
This method is less time consuming. And with a self-adhesive film to work much safer.
We stock up before starting work with color film according to the gamut of the selected sketch. We buy a special lead tape. And scotch tape, scissors and a marker can be found in any household.
Now take the glass. For example, it may be the facade of your interior door. We clear a glass surface. Under it we put a printed circuit. Now we apply a film of the required shade to each detail, press it evenly against the glass and cut it out in the shape of the element. We remove the excess. And so, piece by piece, we glue our drawing.
In the final, the marker translates the contours onto the film. Then on these same contours we lay out a self-adhesive lead tape. We circle carefully, not protruding beyond the borders, carefully cutting corners and carefully aligning the joints.
In the finale of hard work, we are waiting for a transformed door that has turned into an exclusive one.
Pick up paint
And now we will master the most pleasant technique that allows you to create stained glass drawings with your own hands. It is so simple that you can completely entrust it to your children.
In order for you to get started, you need to purchase special paints. There is glue in their composition, because they are so thick. But the most wonderful thing is that after drying, they become transparent. The thin nose, which is supplied with all the tubes, makes it possible to work out even the most elegant details.
The technology consists of several stages. On the first, a diagram is printed, then this diagram is placed under a glass base. After that, in a box with paints, find a tube with a contour and begin to circle all the lines of the circuit with it. Do not forget to lock them at the joints. As soon as you deal with this, wait for the outlines to dry completely, and then begin to fill the elements with paints.
Using this technology, amazing stickers can be made. For them, you just need to change the basis. Stained glass drawings in this case are performed on a film file for papers. A listing of the circuit is included in the file. And then the operations are performed in a familiar sequence. Only after drying, the picture is carefully removed from the substrate and glued to the attracted surface.
We do everything ourselves
Now let's see how we can create beautiful sketches of stained glass drawings ourselves. Yes, it’s easy to find amazing blanks. But sometimes, getting into the taste of free creativity, I want to do everything myself. From start to finish. So let's see how these very schemes are outlined.
The most important (rigorous and mandatory) rule is that the outline of the sketch should always be closed. If even a tiny line break is allowed in any place, then your paint will flow. Or you will break the head for a long time over how here to carve a part from glass. Remember, our drawing consists of individual pieces!
Well, you can choose the method of creating the sketch itself. It’s more convenient for someone to work with their hands: sit with a pencil and paper, draw lines, apply watercolor paints to a sketch.
And someone feels more confident in the graphics editor. Moreover, you can always correct something in it, play with shades, and print several options for the future stained glass window at once.
Creative freedom
With the variety of materials presented by manufacturers, you can create the most amazing and unusual stained glass drawings of flowers, butterflies, fish, and fabulous creatures. Flowers made with flickering paints will look voluminous. Pearlescent particles give your mosaic a subtle sheen of silver, azure or gold. To emphasize the texture of the picture helps beads. And craquelure lacquer gives the stained-glass window a cracked appearance, as if it were not five minutes old, but several centuries.