Mary Gallagher-Stout: Hi! I am Mary Gallagher-Stout and today we are hand painting
beautiful glass ornaments, right now I am going to show you the
difference between using regular glass and iridescent glass in your
bauble making. This is a tear drop shaped ornament, we are going
to remove the lid and we are going to add some medium, some
acrylic flow medium to get the paint swirling around in there and
we are just going to shake it up to get good, full coverage and we
are going to dump out the excess medium and there are some
bubbles in there sometimes and that is okay because they will pop
and it is not going to effect your finish product. It actually will
bring more beauty to the finished piece because the paint will
move in around the bubbles. So I am going to be using in this
ornament vat orange and I am only going to use one color when I
am using iridescent because the iridescent glass has a spectrum of
color within it.
So you do not want to use too much because it will cancel out that
beautiful iridescent quality. So I am just going to use one color and
in this case, vat orange is the choice because love orange, orange is
so pretty and you can see within the iridescent how I have really
good coverage of this media because it is very translucent or
transparent actually, so you are just going to swirl it around to get
the coverage that you like. I do not think that full coverage really is
necessary when you are using iridescent glass because I like to
look through and see the transparency and the shapes that -- the
negative spaces just make it all that more interesting, I think and I
think this looks phenomenal. So I am going to dump out the excess
in my bucket and put it in my drawing rack, let it dry it overnight
and come back in the morning and pop the lid in and hang it on the
tree with a beautiful ribbon and then it will be just phenomenal.
So that concludes our ornament making project today and I hope
that you have a great time and a happy holiday.