It's a pity sometimes to throw out a bottle of wineunusual shape, bright saturated color. So you want to transform it into some original decorative thing, give, so to speak, a second life, adapt it to storage, or decorate the interior. Such a desire arises, probably, in many creative natures, that is why there were so many different ways of decorating ordinary bottles and turning them into non-ordinary objects of everyday life and original gifts. Painting bottles can be done with stained glass or acrylic paints. Moreover, the bottle is so democratic and timeless that it can be painted as you like, using traditional ornament, abstract painting, a picture in the spirit of pop art, expressionism, etc. Full scope for imagination and creativity. Painting bottles with their own hands is an activity to which children can be attached. They will definitely get something very original.
Painting bottles. Necessary materials
To translate creative ideas, you needbeautiful bottle of colored glass. In addition: acrylic paints for glass and ceramics of the main spectrum of colors; contour paste (in a special tube) for glass black, gold and silver; a disposable plate for mixing paints; acrylic clear lacquer; acetone; thin brushes with natural bristles, cotton swabs, thick needles, matches, wadded disks, paper napkins, soft simple pencil (can be cosmetic) or a helium pen.
Painting bottles. Sequence of work
The very first and most difficult stage of work -drawing a preliminary pattern contour on the surface of the bottle (skimmed with alcohol or acetone). You can use a stencil, which is applied to the bottle and outlined with a pencil or pen. You can draw the outline of the picture by yourself. In any case, the traditional way, when the drawing is put under the glass and outlined with a contour, is unacceptable here.
After drawing the drawing, along the pencil linesit is outlined with a contour for the glass. As a result, you should get a convex contour drawing. If here and there are traces of a pencil or pen, then after drying out the contour they are washed off with water.
Now you can start painting.First, the bottle must be secured in an inclined state so that it does not rotate. For this, a serving stand, or two pieces of foam with slots, is suitable. After the bottle is fixed, you can begin to fill the sections between the outline paints.
Acrylic paints are dense enough and not veryliquid, so they are convenient to fill the individual sections between the circuit. We use first one color, the darkest. After the dark ink has dried, the necessary transitions and small strokes with lighter colors are applied over the top. The smallest details of the picture are dotted with a cotton swab or a match. To speed up the drying of the paint, use a household hairdryer. With him, the work will go much faster. You can dilute acrylic paint with varnish, it will lie thinner and more even, and the texture will become more transparent.
At the end of work and after drying of all layers of paint, the pattern is covered with acrylic lacquer. This makes it less vulnerable to washing and protects from possible damage.
Point-painting of bottles
There is another very interesting and unusual waypainting of bottles, where only the contour is used. Color points from a multi-colored contour cover the surface of the glass, like a beaded patterned net. The technology of painting is similar to the previous one. The surface of the bottle is degreased, the preliminary contour of the pattern is applied. Then along these lines, squeeze out the contour with small dots, placing them close to each other, as if stringing beads or embroidering beads. The most diverse colors of the contour, as well as gold and silver blotches create an amazing pattern. You can pre-primed glass surface with an acrylic primer, and on it, for example, a black contour draw a thin dot pattern. This manner of painting will imitate a delicate, delicate lace.
Painting bottles is a kind of creativity thattransforms simple everyday things into real works of decorative art, coloring life with bright colors, allowing you to "plunge" into the wonderful world of creative imagination.
