DIY Hand Painted Wine Glasses with Peacock Feather Design, Tutorial Painted Wine Glasses

I recently painted a set of peacock feather wine glasses

I used to paint on glass a lot, making decorative glass bottles, 

drinking glasses or decorative painting on vintage windows

 and it's a lot of fun and easy to do.

I found these great 20oz Libbey wine glasses at my local Dollar store.

I have a bunch of different colors and brands of glass paints on hand. 

They all require baking in the oven after curing to make them more durable.

I used both the Folk Art Enamels and the Deco Art Enamels on this project

depending on the color I needed. 

You can combine different brands of bake-able paints, just

read the directions and if they have two different oven temps listed,

use the lower of the two and it should be fine.

When painting on a glass remember your first coat is the one you are going to see

on the inside, so you want it to look pleasing from that angle.

This shows the start of the feather and I used metallic gold for the first coat.

This shows the outside of the glass after applying several coats...

Any metallic gold glass paint will be too sheer with just one coat.

I used a base of the metallic gold, so it will be pretty from the inside,

let dry, then topped it with a yellowish tan coat (or any yellow color similar to the metallic gold)

 and let dry then end with a final coat of the metallic gold. 

This will give you the opaque metallic gold base for the feather.

I painted a turquoise round spot on top of  the metallic gold base, followed by

 bright blue with a hint of dark purple. Give each coat a chance to dry

before adding the next layer. They dry pretty quickly especially when

working on more than one glass.

When painting circles or rounded shapes, a Filbert or Oval Wash Brush 

like the one in this photo, makes it super simple.

I knew I wanted my design to sort of wrap around the glass, so

I started with the feather stem and swirled it around to the other side.

I love peacock feathers and use the design in lots of projects...

Like these painted wood Valentine heart ornaments...

Hand painted Christmas ornaments

Peacock Feather Dragonfly...

And even peacock feather butterfly... 

I definitely love peacock feathers!

I started adding the rest of the feather using a long liner brush.

This type of  brush makes it easy to apply long, sweeping strokes.

The back...

It doesn't have to be perfect, no one will be examining every stroke...

if they are, serve them another glass of wine. 😜

I continued layering different colors of green, one was a pearlescent green

but you can use whatever greens you like. You could also make the feathers

blue, purple, gold or whatever look you are going for.

 For the final touch, I added strokes of metallic gold.

When adding layers using glass paint, you have to make sure what you 

are painting over is dry or it will lift the paint up...don't want that.

Back...

Inside view.

After curing for 24 hours, bake according to your 

paint directions for added durability.

Update December 2016

Sold out and I'm no longer creating the wine glasses. Thank you!

Paint your own or visit my Etsy store, I usually have sets of four listed there. 

This set had beautiful green stems. You could also paint 

this design on the stemless wine glasses.

Thanks for stopping by and reading about my wine glasses!

Update June 2017

Visit my new online store featuring my mosaic art.!

I still have some items and clearance items in my Etsy shop

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