Permanent glass painting

[Vicky =^,,^= cat]

Hi all,
as my daughters have discovered the legal drug of childhood, Nutella, I find
myself with a number of useful but plain glasses. I was thinking of
decorating some, but I've never done any glass painting before. Needless to
say, the designs will have to be washproof (not necessarily
dishwasherproof). I have some cearamic paints, can I use them on glass? How
do I make them washproof? I had a look at some websites, but they all seem
to describe glass painting for decorative items that don't require washing.
Any help and hints from the creative experts would be much appreciated!

Victoria

[Julie]

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Hi Vicky

February's issue of Crafts Beautiful has an item showing painting on
drinking glasses. They recommend pebeo glass paints (www.pebeo.com) and say
that the design can be washed off at any time until the glasses are baked in
the oven. While they don't give any instructions for the baking, they do
say that you should "carefully follow the manufacturer's instructions when
baking paints in an oven".

I've only ever done decorative glass painting, using glass paints (sorry, I
don't have them any more and can't remember the manufacturer), and they are
generally translucent - I would expect ceramic paints to be slightly more
solid so not give quite the same effect on the glass. It might be worth
just having a 'test' glass so that you can experiment and see what you/your
children like best.

Hope this helps (a little!)

Julie

[Vicky =^,,^= cat]

"Julie" <ju...@nospamplease.ie> wrote in message
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>
> "Vicky =^,,^= cat" <nos...@goaway.com> wrote in message
> news:42kpbtF...@individual.net...
>> Hi all,
>> as my daughters have discovered the legal drug of childhood, Nutella, I

>> find myself with a number of useful but plain glasses. I(snip)

>
> Hi Vicky
>
> February's issue of Crafts Beautiful has an item showing painting on
> drinking glasses. They recommend pebeo glass paints (www.pebeo.com) and
> say that the design can be washed off at any time until the glasses are
> baked in the oven. While they don't give any instructions for the baking,
> they do say that you should "carefully follow the manufacturer's
> instructions when baking paints in an oven".
>
> I've only ever done decorative glass painting, using glass paints (sorry,
> I don't have them any more and can't remember the manufacturer), and they
> are generally translucent - I would expect ceramic paints to be slightly
> more solid so not give quite the same effect on the glass. It might be
> worth just having a 'test' glass so that you can experiment and see what
> you/your children like best.
>
> Hope this helps (a little!)
>
>

It helps *a lot*! There's Pebeo galore on Ebay, I'll try to pick up a cheap
pot and then experiment. My girls are proper Nutella druggies now so there
will be no shortage of glass pots to experiment with!
Many thanks Julie :-)

Victoria