Painting on different glasses

I have never been really good at drawing, it is mostly stick-figures and silhouettes and so forth. However, I do like the painting processes. I like to make colours blend and give a new expression or perhaps a feeling. For many years, I resisted the idee of painting as I could not paint in the "normal" way, my paintings are not lifelike nor are the great abstracts. But I recently started painting on glass, and it is fun to blend different colours and not make a picture, bur rather just decoration. I am sort of just letting the paintbrush move. I did buy a couple of small bottles. I don't know what I will use them for, but they are fun to paint on. Other than that I am using empty jam jars or the like. My part in recycling!

So here are a few of the ones that I am finished with, at least for now:

This has both blue and purple lines and a purple ribbon. I love candle holders, a bit too much at times perhaps, but still. This is what it looks like when I have a small light in it. 

Below is a bottle that I have just made a couple of flower like decoration on. It is a rather small bottle, but it is decorative. 

This is the same bottle, but here I have made green vines up and mixed three different greens. So I have painted on this bottle several times (you may have seen the bottle in its early stages in another description that I have made on my blog)

 Here I am trying to be a bit more lifelike. It is difficult to see in a picture I think, but each of the sides of this jar has a different tree on it and a different season. So on one side there is a tree with it's leaves falling off, in another there branches are bare, than in one there is snow all around and so forth. It was great fun to make, but I do not know what to do with it, yet.

Painting on glass

I am experimenting a bit with painting on glass. It is fun as the colours blend differently than if you are doing it on paper. In addition I can use old jam jars and make them attractive again instead of just throwing them away. Here I have tried to keep to the same colour scheme, green with purple (I do love purple) and just changing the shape of the flowers a bit. However, I am not trying for any particular flower, I am just having fun with different shapes.

My husband wanted to make apple cider this summer, we have several large apple trees in the garden. So I bought a couple of bottles for this purpose. However, it didn't quite work out as planned, although we did learn a lot. So I have decided to just have a bit of fun with the bottles. Here I have experimented a bit with just shapes. The blue is sort of the ocean or water. I am not terribly happy with it. I do want to  do something more with this.

It is perhaps a bit difficult to see in a picture. But I have mixed two different blues. I think I will have to do something more here, perhaps add some other colours? I don't really know.

Here I have tried to give an impression of growing vines. I am going to add a bit more green and perhaps some more details, but overall I am very happy with this result.

Maling på glass

Jeg har kjøpt litt forskjellige farger for å male på glass, og nå er det morsomt. Jeg leker meg med farger og mønstre, og jeg har prøvd slike stenciler for å få presise mønstre. Jeg har etterhvert funnet ut at det ikke fungerer for meg for malingen flyter utenfor og det blir et slikt pirkearbeid. Så de stencilene får jeg bruke andre steder.

Her er et glass jeg har malt på, savner sommeren litt……

Maling på glass

Jeg har begynt å male litt på glass, men jeg synes det er ganske vanskelig.  Malingen er så tynn og det blir ikke helt slik som jeg har tenkt meg.
Jeg har kjøpt noen tuber med reliff maling og den synes jeg er fungerer greit, men jeg må jobbe mer med selve malingen på glasset.

Her står det i ovnen og skal brennes.

Jeg er misfornøyd med vasen med den hvite bunnfargen. Uansett hva jeg gjorde så fikk jeg ikke vekk stripene i malingen. Etter brenningen var jeg litt misfornøyd med at fargene var litt for svake, så jeg har lagt til mer farge og skal brenne igjen. Jeg håper det da blir mer solide farger og totalt sett penere.