Learning To Stencil Backwards: How To Reverse Stencil Glass™
No, I don’t mean reaching behind your back and stenciling blind. Or walking backwards while you paint. Although you could try those techniques! And if you do, let us know how it goes. Today we’ll show to reverse stencil glass on the underside of a glass cocktail table, and why this requires painting your layers of color in reverse - or, stenciling backwards.
To show how this works, we’ll we begin with clear glass on a little campaign table and transform it from a plain Jane piece into a rich, luxurious gold and black tabletop.
Glass tabletops like this are ideal for stenciling because you can paint under the glass, so no need to worry much about protecting the paint. There are glass paints specially formulated to be permanent on glass, such as Martha Stewart Glass Paint and Pebeo Vitrea 160 . But many paints will not be permanent on glass. This doesn’t mean you can’t paint on glass. Just look for a glass surface that won’t need cleaning, such as the underside of a glass table, the glass in a picture frame or the back side of glass in a cabinet door.
The secret to painting on the reverse side of glass is to “think in reverse” if you’re using more than one paint color. What I mean by this is, instead of painting your Browse this site background color first, as you would on canvas or wood, the background color is the last thing you paint. What a mind-bender, huh? No worries, it’s easy and we’ll show you how.
The supplies to do this project are:
- Clear glass surface
- Glass cleaner
- Ruler
- Stencil - this project used the Marrakech Medallion
Stencil Brushes
Stencil Creme Paint from Royal Design Studio: This project used Aged Nickel , Antique Gold, Bronze Age and Flat Black Stencil Creme