Many of us have seen in the historical buildings and churches of beautiful windows of various shapes and sizes of colored glass held together by bridges. This type of decorative art of stained glass is called. This stained glass window is technologically complex and very expensive, the masters who know the secrets of its creation, is very small.
Nowadays often mimic stained glass: normal glass painted with oil or special short-lived stained glass paints, glued to the windows color paper, filling in the gaps black or silver paint. The result is a multi-colored designs, similar to the patterns of a kaleidoscope.
The interior popular pattern imitating stained glass, and apply a variety of colors, not only bright, but matte surface texture different individual elements. The gaps between them filled with an adhesive tape, which is removed after staining elements, and voids are colored, or colored tape, which in itself is already a decorative element.
And we make with their hands stained glass figurines, butterfly, bird and some other characters. And glass and expensive will not use stained glass paint, and even children cope with the challenge!
You need to work cardboard (black or white, which then have to be painted in black), colored paper (plain, thin corrugated or tissue). If such a paper is not present, you can use vellum or tracing paper, which is to paint with colored pencils. Another option - design paper of your authorship, created with the help of paints and brushes.
Cut out the cardboard figure of the contour, as in the photo. If our blank white cardboard, cover it with black paint acrylic. After drying, proceed to the assembly: glue on the reverse side at random pieces of colored paper so that they overlap, but no more than two layers to form a translucent remained on shine.
You can also stick to the outline of our design paper one piece. On the front side cut off the excess paper that protrudes over the contour limits.
You can do one of several heroes series: butterflies, birds, fish, kites or thematic: easter, hearts, snowflakes.
To begin, we train on simple forms, then you can try to create more complex "stained glass".
Let us find our creations in the interior, and will enjoy the beauty! But the secret, of course, will not disclose to anyone, let them think that it's a real stained glass.
