Tanjore Glass Painting...

Tanjore glass paintings is an improvisation of traditional.These are done on back side of glass. This is similar to reverse glass painting. The effect is one of stunning clarity and rich color adding the beauty.


Materials Required:

• 4 mm glass desired size(18”x 14”)
• Isographic pen – Rotring 0.3 mm
• Rotring black colour permanent ink
• Cellotape, pencil, carbon, foot scale, bud
• Acrylic colours 
• Pentel poster colour – pearl Gold
• Stone colours – Red, White, Green
• Good quality brushes for acrylic colours – 0, 2, 6/8
• Pebeo Acrylic Glossy Spray(optional).
• Aluminium foil 

PROCEDURE:

1. Wash glass with soap, air dry for a few minutes, then clean glass again with a glass cleaner spray, wipe with a paper,set aside for 5 minutes.
2. Trace a reverse design– this is done because this is a reverse glass painting on doing so the left and the right parts of the picture will not get reversed when we copy the design on the glass.
3. Draw a ½’’ border on all 4 sides of the glass using the Rotring pen and foot scale.
4. Tape the 4 sides of the glass with Cellotape. Now trace the details using the rotring pen, let dry for 10-15 minutes and then spary over the markings using Pebeo spray & let dry for at least 12-20 hours till touch dry.
5. Using stone colours and gold: Decide the colours for the stones in the different pieces of jewellery.
6. Use 0 brush and fill in the different colours.
7. After this dries,use gold poster colour  fill the designs which have to be filled with gold using the same 0 brush. Let the gold dry.
8. After the picture is completed, pieces of crushed aluminium foil have to be stuck on the stone colours to give depth to the stones.

Painting: 

• For any Goddess – use White + 1 drop of Chrome yellow medium as skin colour ( all goddesses except Parvati, Valli, Meenakshi and Kali).
• For Ganesha – use White + 1 drop of Burnt Sienna as skin colour.(all Gods except Rama, Krishna, Balaji, Hanuman, have this same colour).
• Decide background in accordance with the colours decided for the clothes.
• For the clothes use a little white or black to the curved part of the dress  to give it a silk effect.
• When this is slightly dry, fill the entire dress with the decided colour and wash the place where the main colour meets the white or black shading.
• Similarly, shade curtains with main colour and white or black.

  9.   Check for any adjustments to be done before background is painted.
 10.  If needed, give 2 coatings for the background. Spray Pebeo Acrylic/varnish spray on the painting after   fixing the aluminium foil.
 11.  Leave it as it is to dry.