Painting and decor VAZ: 3 master class (45 photos)

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Master class number 1: Stylish geometry for beginners
Master class number 2: Spot painting vases
Master class number 3: Stained glass painting glass vases

Vases made of glass or ceramics, painted and decorated with their own hands, can be an excellent gift, decoration for a wedding or a decorative item for your home. Manual painting on glass / ceramics, depending on the desired pattern and technique, can be both complex, requiring skills, and very simple, accessible to beginners.

Master class number 1: Stylish geometry for beginners

To create such a laconic and stylish vase decoration with your own hands you do not need to be able to draw - smooth and neat stripes, zigzags and intersecting lines can be created using masking tape.

You will need: spray paint, acrylic or stained glass paint for glass and ceramics, a brush (a synthetic brush is suitable for acrylic paints, natural for stained glass paints), masking tape (better for different widths), as well as nail polish remover or alcohol for degreasing the surface, cotton pads and sticks.

Drawing technique:

Degrease the ceramic or glass vase with a cotton disc and any degreaser;
As soon as the surface is dry, we paste over the vase with adhesive tape according to the principle of stencil, for example, as shown in these photos (scroll to the right).

Tip: a very beautiful effect can be achieved by gluing a narrow adhesive tape over the vase as shown below.

We put the vase on the newspaper and begin to carefully paint over the non-glued areas and the bottom, going to the adhesive tape so that the edges of the pattern on the vase are clear. In this master class, paint is used in a can, but you can use acrylic or stained paints, as well as add contours to the drawing.
It now remains to wait for the paint to dry out completely. Drying time for all colors is different, so you need to focus on the manufacturer's instructions. Spray paints dry very quickly and do not require roasting, but acrylic and stained glass, as a rule, can be baked by putting the vase in the oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of 150 degrees, or let them dry naturally for 2-4 hours.

For your inspiration, we picked up the most beautiful ideas for decorating your own vases using scotch tape. Take a look at the photo below - this simple decor can decorate even the most elegant wedding.

Floor vases are very large, and therefore hand-painted on them is a long and laborious business, but using scotch as a stencil you can decorate them as quickly as possible.

Carefully consider the choice of color paints. Unusual shades, for example, gold, silver, copper, pastel, and also white and black colors will immediately turn an ordinary glass or ceramic vase into a designer decor item.

Master class number 2: Spot painting vases

For those who are not looking for easy ways and want to decorate a vase with a more complex pattern, we suggest mastering the technique of spot painting, also called pique or point-to-point.

You will need: alcohol or acetone, cotton pads and sticks for degreasing and pattern correction, and for drawing prepare high-quality outline colors, for example, from Marabu or Decola. You can also use acrylic paints and a small synthetic brush, cotton swab or toothpick.

Drawing technique:

First you need to degrease the vase and wait for it to dry.
Masters of spot painting can put a drawing on a vase without the help of sketches, masterfully improvising in the process of creation. But novice decorators better pre-outline the contours of the desired pattern.

How to transfer the picture on the vase for future painting

You can transfer the picture to an opaque vase using a soft simple pencil: print or draw a picture in a suitable size, cut it out, and put it on another sheet of paper "face" down, and then carefully with a pencil, paint the inside of the piece of paper. Your task is to generously cover the entire area with a stylus. Now you should attach and secure with a scotch tape a leaflet with a painted wrong side to the vase, and then draw the outline of the drawing with the same pencil (preferably blunt) as shown in the photo to the right. Thus, the surface will remain barely noticeable sketch, which will facilitate your work;
To paint a glass vase, simply print or draw the auxiliary sketch manually and then paste it on the reverse side.

Tip: choosing a pattern for a transparent vase, remember that the patterns or images on its walls will intersect with each other. Therefore, it is better to place the main picture on one side of the vase, and apply the background, that is, unobtrusive painting to the rest of it.

Before you start painting vases, practice putting the same points on paper, maintaining an equal interval, which should be such that the points are distinguishable, but at the same time form a single inseparable line.

Test all contours - they should not be liquid and thick. Also prepare a needle for cleaning the tip of the tube and a cotton swab to correct the failed pattern.

If applying a dotted image directly from a tube seems difficult to you or you do not have contour paints - it does not matter, use acrylic paints. Points of different sizes can be set with the help of available tools - an eraser on a pencil, a toothpick, a needle, a cotton swab, a small brush, and even its blunt end as shown in the photo.

When the drawing is finished, put the vase baked in the oven according to the manufacturer's recommendations. As a rule, the paints completely dry in 24-72 hours in a natural way or by baking in the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees (if you used baked contours). Of course, large floor vases that do not fit in the oven should be dried in a natural way.

Ideas for the decoration of a ceramic vase can be found in the following selection of photos.

Here are some examples of spot painting on glass.

Master class number 3: Stained glass painting glass vases

Outlines can be painted not only in the point technique - in combination with stained glass paints, hand-painted vases can imitate stained glass.

You will need: degreaser, cotton pads and sticks, contours, stained paint, natural brush, as well as an auxiliary sketch, printed or hand-painted (if necessary).

Tip: stained paints are on a different basis. Paints on alcohol or water are suitable for painting a vase. Also keep in mind that non-bake paint should be fixed with a special varnish for stained glass painting. This option is more suitable for the design of a large floor vase that does not fit in the oven, in other cases it is better to buy baked paint.

Drawing technique:

Degrease the glass;
Secure the sketch from inside the vase;
Starting from the distant part of the picture, draw closed contours, correcting lines if necessary. Then let the circuits dry for about 2 hours. To speed up the process will help hair dryer or roasting in the oven for 15 minutes (150 degrees);
Now you need to fill the contours with paint, evenly distributing it with a brush. Stained glass paints flowing and liquid - they need to adapt. The main principles - stained paint should be in contact with the contour, also you should not leave "non-colors".
And finally, we put the painted vase in the oven heated to 150-170 degrees for half an hour.