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 Glass is the icy beauty, the translucent magic, the fragile
elegance and the fascinating glare of fairy tale. It is a lot to say about
glass and glass works though no words can feature all the beauty of the glass.
Like water, it magnetizes with its crystal-clear intensity.
The glass as the material for handicraft was made use by
many masters from the ancient times. Plenty of glass works enriched the human
life with its functionality and unique airy beauty. And glass painting is
well-known from the antique times.
Glass painting matches the intensity of colors and the
fragile limpidity of the glass which creates the exceptional effect of magic
and unique individuality. Glass painting or stained glass painting was popular
back in the past and it is in favor in our times either.
The triumphal return of favor for glass painting caused a plenty
of various glass items, from the household utensils and tableware to the plain
window frames. Glass is featureless even being functional presented in
household items and windows in the house. Glass is not unique like the unusual
things. This is the conveyor supplied to anyone but without individuality.
The standard typical things overwhelmed the unusual in our
lives when we felt the longing for something very individual, exclusive and
unique.
Glass painting gives the possibility to create something
fairy, magic and wonderful from the plain and dull material.
Glass is not painted as in the past times when the masters
used the paints made from various kinds of clay and natural essences. In our
times the glass painters just go to the store where they purchase special
paints for glass work, namely silica-based paints. The painting is dried under
the high temperature in the furnace.
The humankind can boast with the new technologies though the
ancient techniques are also practiced. The beauty and the uniqueness of glass painting
depend on talent and fantasy of the master, on their ability to work and
conquer the color, light and the work itself, and this is not that easy when
the painting is made to the clear surface. The more difficult is the task – the
more interesting is the process.
Anyone who can paint is free to try it. Even if you have no
talent, you can try your skills. A cliché may also be used, a pattern may be
copied to the glass. This kind of work is not going to be the unique work of
the genius master, though the exclusiveness is ensured. And this work
distinguished well of the other glass works.
Where the glass is, the painting is applicable. The stained
glass painting on the glass doors of the cupboard gives some antique ease, the
pain on the glass lampshades styled «Tiffany» makes the plain lamp into the
glass work from the fairy eastern palace.
The painting on the glass vases, plates and glasses and the
curtain painted onto the window or the view from the window look unusual. Such painting
is able to hide the poor view from the window and the room looks extraordinary.
Glass painting is often used by designers for the dwelling
premises. Glass painting, translucent and vivid, fragile and elegant creates
the atmosphere of the fairy tale in the room. The painting should be done
considering the design of the premise and the limpid depth of it just
highlights the individuality of the room.
The stained glass adds some fanciful luxury and the scent of
ancient times, the elegant glass vases makes a real tiny garden on the table
and the glass tableware adds more unique and ingenious effect.
Sea kingdom and ancient palaces, the fairy patterns and the
magic of eastern tales, the ease of the butterfly fluttering over the flower,
the pink stain of the sun beam in the heaven – and all this is the glass
painting.
Glass painting is the fashion, the life style that assumes
the thoughtful concept and merging with the nature.
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