Glass painting with Fateme Noorie

Materials

Vitrail transparent paint

relief outliner

sheet of glass

plain paper

pencils

coloured pencils

Nettoyant pinceaux

paint brushes

Kitchen roll

picture frame

Steps

1. Draw your practice design on paper. I chose to recreate Lambert of Saint-Omer's Lily diagram from the Liber Floridus in my own design.

   
   

   

   Ghent, University Library, MS 92, fol. 230v

   
   

   

   My design

   
   

2. On the glass that came with the frame, I then placed my drawing underneath it and traced my design with the relief outliner. I ensured the lines were thick and had no gaps, so that when I came to use the vitrail transparent paint, the colours would not blend.

3. I then waited about 30 minutes until the outline had dried.

   
   

4. Once dry, I painted in the colour using vitrail transparent paint, then waited for it to dry.

5. I framed my painting.

   
   
   
   
   
   

   

   Finished glass painting

   I absolutely loved this session! It is definitely something that I would do again. It would be fun to do paintings straight onto a window. I found that my drawing really came to life once it was painted on glass.

   Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything on Fateme Noorie. All I know is that she is a local artist. If you want to know more about her work, she occasionally runs workshops at Swathmore Education Centre. Please refer to their website to see when these are. https://www.swarthmore.org.uk/courses-workshops