V2.0 - Coloured Chaos Glasses with Pebeo Vitrea Paint

Chaos Glasses 2.0!

By Natalie Wyatt 

Made with "Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glass Paint".

 

Hi all!

 For my very first post here at Crafty Crusaders, I delivered a tutorial on how to create these colourful glasses using the Pebeo Vitrea 160 paints. 

Well, the thought came back to me when we were having a bake-stall at my University to raise money for our graduate show, so instead of baking cookies and cupcakes, I baked glasses!

I based them off my original design (pictured below), but this time I tried them out with some new colour combinations!

It was a great success and I sold them all! I filled them lollies, chocolates and a bouncy ball for fun!

There's two types of Pebeo Vitrea paints: Glossy and Frosted.

Glossy: is transparent, so they work like a stained glass effect.

Frosted: is transparent/opaque, so you can see through it partially.

These paints are not to be confused with Pebeo Vitrail paints, which are used for decorative purposes. Instead, the Vitrea range are intended to be used on materials which may be used for human consumption.

 

But before I show them to you, I'll do a refresher on how to make them:

If you saw my original tutorial, you can skip ahead to the next part where I show you my new designs.

 

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 What you will need:

• Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glass Paints (Glossy or Frosted depending on the look you want to achieve)
• Wales Old Fashion Glasses (Or any other preference)*
• 1 x Small Paintbrush (I used Princeton Art & Brush Co. Golden Taklon Synthetic Hair #4 Round)
• 1 x Spatula (I used Catalyst by Princeton)
• A cup filled with water (To rinse your brush)
• Scrap paper to cover work-bench.
• Tissues to blot the wet paint-brushes.

* I bought my glasses from Kmart, they came as a pack of 6 and were $6!

 I used Pepper Red, Sun Yellow and Turquoise Vitrea 160 paints for this example. You may use other colours as desired, however the three selected colours are the basic Primary colours which mix to make all other secondary colours like green, orange and purple.

 First begin by dipping your paintbrush into the paints and loading it rather heavily onto the glass in a small line. Make sure you wash in the cup of water and dry your brush on the tissues between each colour so you don't mix the paints in the pots.

 Then, using the spatula tip, drag the spatula across the lines starting at the red and smoothing past the blue to create a stroke of mixed colour.

 You will then notice on your spatula residue from the smudged paint. Do not wash this off!

Using the side of the spatula with paint, again swipe the spatula across the glass in a different direction. This will create a new colour stroke.

 Repeat the same process in different areas until you have run out of paint on the spatula. You may like to smudge the paint already on the glass to create new strokes.

 Repeat the first steps again by applying the three colours using the paintbrush onto the glass. You don't have to necessarily use lines or have any sort of order! All we want is the colours to be close enough to blend. For example, in the above shot, I used dots of paint as well as lines.

 Take the spatula again and smudge the paint to create the colour strokes on the glass. 

I painted my glass in an ascending fashion so the colour would start at the bottom of the glass and wrap around to the top.

When you are happy with your design, put it aside and allow to dry.

I would recommend leaving them to dry for 24 hours, so they can dry all the way through, because if you bake them while the paint is still partially wet, you will get giant paint bubbles! Trust me... XD

 You can now place it on a tray and bake it in a conventional oven on 160 degrees for 40 minutes. (Normal oven function is fine)

Then remove your glass from the tray and allow to cool.

The baking process deepens the colours and helps them set so your glass is now ready to use and is dishwasher and microwave safe!

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Now, here are the new versions I have made! 

Here are some group shots and below I'll explain which colours I used for each.

 

 #1

Pebeo Vitrea  

Pimento Red (Glossy)

Turquoise (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

This was very similar to the earlier ones I made!

  #2

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Pepper Red (Glossy)

Lemon (Frosted)

Pink (Frosted)

A mix of frosted and glossy paints.

   #3

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Oriental Green (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

Pimento Red (Glossy)

Turquoise (Glossy

   #4

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

Oriental Green (Glossy)

Pimento Red (Glosssy)

Be careful not to use too much paint on your glasses because you might find that it begins to collect and create drip marks. Generally you can just stroke the paint to flatten these.

    #5

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Oriental Green (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

Pimento Red (Glossy)

Turquoise (Glossy

 

This one didn't turn out so well because I over blended the colours with the spatula. Try and keep the spatula blending as minimal as possible.

 

   #6

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Pink (Frosted)

Azure (Frosted)

 

  #7

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Azure (Frosted)

Pink (Frosted)

Lemon (Frosted)

Aniseed Green (Frosted)

 

This was probably my least favourite as I over blended the colours and got this dirty pink/purple colour, so I learned that trying to keep the number of colours to a minimum is more effective... in my opinion! You make prefer the look! 

  #8

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Pimento Red (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

This created a real firey effect.

 

  #9

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Oriental Green (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

I really liked the two colours, it created a simple, yet lovely effect!

   #10

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Pimento Red (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

Turquoise (Glossy)

 

For this glass I started off with just the blue and red and then added yellow right at the end.

 

   #11

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Oriental Green (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

Turquoise (Glossy)

This was mainly the blue and green with accents of yellow.

 

  #12

Pebeo Vitrea 160 

Oriental Green (Glossy)

Sun Yellow (Glossy)

Turquoise (Glossy)

This was mainly the green and yellow with a bit of blue. 

Which one was your favourite?

Thanks for reading!

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Natalie Wyatt

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Let them have cake - on a pretty plate.

 Today we are creating an abstract floral cake platter, I have had this cake platter for almost two years, my son gave it to me for Mother's Day and its never been used. So I thought why not create something more my style instead of a plain glass platter.

 Supplies used are very limited which is a plus!

• Glass Cake Platter
• Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glossy Paint in Pepper Red
• Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glossy Paint in Ink Black
• Princeton Art and Brush Co Flat Brush and a small round brush for details if wanted.

 First you need to prep your surface, I completely cleaned the platter with dishwashing liquid and hot water, I also dried it thoroughly before starting the flowers.

I looked up some images of poppies to give me some inspiration. I wanted to keep things loose and easy not creating things too uniformed, I used sweeping brush strokes to create little red flowers buds.

I then went in with the ink black colour and worked quickly with the black accents.

I thought long and hard about if I wanted to give them stems, or let them just be floating flowers, in the end stems won..I am still unsure I made the right choice! but art is about leaping into the unknown.

I made the stems using a mixture of the ink black on a paintbrush, just being very free with the lines, giving them slight bulbs at the top where the stems meet the petals.

Once I was happy with the look, I preheated my oven to 160 degrees and popped it straight in for 40 minutes. When the timer was up, I shut the oven off and just left the door open, so the platter could cool slowly.

During the oven process a little of the black went a little a-wall but I still love the messy arty look that was created, the reds really popped once the baking was complete! I know I will for sure use the platter so much more now that its got a little of my personality on it!

So there you have it! if you have a poor sad cake platter that needs some life! this is a fun and very beginner project you yourself could tackle with no problems at all!!

See you with another project soon.
Courtney Diaz.

Bee-utiful Summer Glasses

'Bee'-utiful Summer Glasses

By Natalie Wyatt 

 

Made with "Pebeo Porcelaine 150 Ceramic Paint and Markers"

 

Dean's Summer Dance.

 

So Summer is well under-way! And living here in Melbourne, we will probably be experiencing it on and off all year with our lovely non-committal weather tendencies...

So! I made some really easy and fun Bee glasses! I've had a few functions since I made them and they're quite fun for all ages getting them out and watching people gravitate toward them. Plus you could very easily change the concept and make butterflies, caterpillars, ladybugs or anything else you wanted.

 What you will need:

• 1 x Wales Old Fashion Glass (Or any other preference)*
• Sun Yellow Vitrea 160 Paint (Glossy)
• White Vitrea 160 Paint (Glossy)
• Black Vitrea 160 Marker (Glossy)
• 1 x Small Paintbrush (I used Princeton Art & Brush Co. Golden Taklon Synthetic Hair #4 Round)
• A cup/glass filled with water (To rise your brush)
• Scrap paper to cover work-bench.
• Tissues to blot the wet paint-brushes.

 

Firstly, make sure your glass has been cleaned thoroughly in hot water and your hands are clean as-well.

You start by drawing a foot-ball shaped oval with the marker and adding a flick to one side.

The marker needs to be shaken before use and if your paint runs out as you are drawing, just press the tip a few times on scrap paper so the marker tip floods with paint.

Then, you can add a small line at the front which will be the head area.

 Now, using your marker again, create two stripes in the body of the bee. I've made my line thicker at the top to create that perspective of the stripes.

You can now add the two little wings on-top. 

I made one wing larger than the other for aesthetic purposes. 

Before you start the next step allow time for the marker to dry, otherwise you will find the black marker paint running with the yellow paint.

Even waiting 10-15 minutes so the paint can develop a thick skin is enough time.

Now you can use your Princeton brush and Vitrea 160 Sun Yellow paint and fill in the stripes on the Bee's body.

Oh isn't he cute.

(They look brilliant in sunlight!)

Now you can clean your brush and using the White Vitrea 160 Paint start to fill in the wings.

You'll want a fairly decent amount of paint on the wings to get that brilliant white colour.

This next step you can use the same paint from before, but this time only very lightly paint the head of the bee with a thin white layer of paint.

Allow the white layer to dry and then repeat with the yellow paint.

This creates a soft yellow colour.

Make sure you allow that time to dry in between to achieve this effect.

This next step is incredibly difficult but I have no fear that you can persevere and rise to the challenge.

*deep breath*

For this step I want you to use your black marker again and place one black dot on the head for the eye...

Oh thank goodness you did it!

Good job, there will be dancing in the streets today in your honour!

For the last step, take your marker again and draw a trail of lines around the glass as the path for the bee. You can do it in any direction or fashion!

And you're done!

Well... nearly, now all you have to do is wait 24 hours for the paint to dry and then bake it at 160 degrees for 40 minutes.

I generally put the glasses on a tray when baking them.

To avoid accidently cracking your glass, leave your glasses in the oven to cool down gradually so they aren't shocked by the sudden temperature change when they are done.

These glasses were bought from Kmart, however Spotlight stocks Princeton Brushes and the Vitrea Paints/Markers and have a great range of glasses as-well. 

 

 

Please send us photos of your designs!

Thanks for bearing with my humour.

Or lack of it.

Not sure which.

Blame my Dad.

Natalie Wyatt

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