HOW I DRAW GRAPHICS ON GLASS - diy tutorial

THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE RIGHT JOB

I knew what I wanted to create but I didn't know quite how I was going to accomplish it.

I am a huge fan of Murdoch Mysteries, a Canadian TV drama

series set at the turn of the last century.

For those unfamiliar with the plot, Constable William

 Murdoch is a Toronto detective who solves his cases using

 methods of detection that were new to the time.

They shoot many scenes in the city morgue which has a great

turn of the century look. When I was working on this next

project I envisioned this cabinet in that setting with white

vintage labeling on the glass. 

The answer turned out to be paint pens (seen below).

Of all the different pens I have tried for projects I found

these worked great for glass and they are not too expensive at Michaels.

I TRACED THE IMAGE ONTO THE INSIDE OF THE GLASS DOORS

I printed my graphic in reverse with an ink jet printer.

I took the doors off the cabinet to work on them laying flat.

I cleaned both sides of the glass thoroughly before moving on.

I taped the reverse image onto the front of the glass door 

facing the glass. I made sure the pen was ready to go, there is

full instructions on the packaging.

You need to have confidence and just go with the flow once

 you start tracing. I am right handed so I worked left to right,

 top to bottom, so I did not smudge the paint. I used an entire

 pen on each door.

Once both doors were finished and put back onto the cabinet 

I took a razor blade and touched up some of the graphic by 

removing little bits of the white paint between letters. 

This paint is also water resistant so you can wash over the 

paint with mild soap and water when needed.

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Just think, the possibilities are endless!

PS - if you make a horrible mistake you can scrape it off with a razor blade

You can see how the grey driftwood paint finish was created 
here: https://bit.ly/2MqdVNe

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