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Acrylic reverse painting on glass.
A wide view to show the scale of the painting, and the purpose. it was intended as an advertisement for the new Rage set that released feb. 15th. (available from: http://www.rainydaypaperback.com/rage.html )
Those are five foot tall bookcases directly behind it, so the figure is actually about 4 feet tall. The window's about 8 feet across, and is the front window at my book store. It's good to own your own business so you can spend two days painting a giant werewolf on your front window and call it "work".
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| Image: glasspainting5.jpg
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Acrylic reverse painting on glass.
Final step. We added color to the eyes and the teeth. It does not show up in this picture, but because acylic is semitranslucent, the eyes actually appear to GLOW in the dark, because there is less paint used in them than the fur. Thus the light shines through.
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| Image: glasspainting4.jpg
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Acrylic reverse painting on glass.
We've added all the highlights and shadows now and are doing the base color, the last layer on the fur.
again, this is Jenn painting while I photographed. I did paint, I'm just not in any of the photos.
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| Image: glasspainting3.jpg
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Acrylic reverse painting on glass.
A shot from a different angle of the same stage. You can tell from the sharp shadow on the bookcase that the sunlight was quite bright. We actually had to wear sunglasses.
Take note, the temperature of the glass greatly effects how easy it is to paint on it! This was done in february, so unless the sun was shining on the window, it's cold, which makes the paint go on rather unevenly. So we worked staring into the sun to get a smooth finish.
Make sure to clean the glass before starting any work. In the left hand corner, you can see my dog peering at the glass. We had to remove doggy nose prints several times during the project. Oils from your hands may also make the paint adhere strangely, so be careful.
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| Image: glasspainting2.jpg
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Acrylic reverse painting on glass.
Step two- highlights. The really counterinntuitive thing about revser painting on glass is that you have to do everything backwards.
Linework is done first, and you cannot touch it up later! Then the highlights and shadowing, then the final base color.
That's actually my friend Jenn in the picture, who was helping me add the color. I had just done the grey highlighting and shadowing, she was finishing up the glyph while I photographed our progress.
Note the dramatic shadow on the right, which actually shows off the line work quite well.
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| Image: glasspainting1.jpg
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Acrylic reverse painting on glass. original is about 4 feet tall.
Step one of a large painting on glass- doing the line work. There's three ways to do this. Freehand (not recommended), stencilling, or gridding.
This one was done by printing out a copy of this sketch of a werewolf:
http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Fenris-Lorsrai/Sketches/peripherysketch.jpg
Then drawing a grid over it. We then layed out a dot grid and transfered the sketch to the glass, adding touch ups and details as we went, but relying on the gridding for the big lines.
The grid dots were then removed with a razor blade. acrylic will neatly scrape of glass.
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