What I'm up to now----- :) A PostScript to Prior Post on Enamelling Glass----

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This started out life as a glass "bowl" chandelier...I got it at a yard sale a while back. You can read the post below ( with the window) to learn more about the technique of enameling glass, I just wanted to show you this chandelier, used the same enamels & technique as the window seen below.

To be able to see the design THROUGH this bowl, I had to spend a couple hrs and a box of Brillo scrubbing off billions of micro-speckles of cream-colored paint the manufacturer had sprayed on to make the glass more opaque, the exact opposite of what you want in any painted glass project.


After I got all the micro-speckles off, next came a thorough wash & dry, making certain there were NO fragments of dust or lint, which the enamels will pick up, colorize and magnify.
The pic below shows my sketch in the bowl, done with Pebeo glass markers. The paper sketch I mapped out for the design is standing behind the bowl. It's very important to be certain of your overall placement BEFORE you begin; sketches really help~

Here she is after about 14 hrs of painting. It has been thermally cured ( described in next post) and is ready to hang~  I used iridescent enamels to give some of the flowers a little more definition.
As a rule, you work with only one color at a time. This view is looking down into the bowl.

To see the design as it will be when it's illuminated, I put it on top of a pasta pot and photographed it from below.

You can see the difference in color intensity when viewed through the lit glass...it is much fainter, which is why you must build many layers of color to get a rich depth after it's lit. If you paint in pale colors or too few layers, it will be very difficult to see your finished images through the glass.

This is not a technique for subtleties...if you want your enamel work to show up, gotta make it bold~