Lanterns like pumpkins
03/10/2022
Turn simple glasses into Halloween lanterns! And learn
about Vitrail painting!
Materials :
- Pébéo Vitrail paints: black, white, lemon, crimson, coral, dark purple
- A Pébéo black “lead” Vitrail relief outliner
- Brushes
- Curved glasses
- LED candles
- White spirit
Difficulty Level :
Drying time: 2 hours to the touch, completely dry in 10 hours
- Time to make: 1 hour per pumpkin
- Difficulty: medium - age 10 and up
- Thoroughly clean the glasses you want to paint.
- Using the black outliner, draw the pumpkin's eyes, nose and mouth. Leave to dry well.
- with black vitrail fill in the eyes, nose and mouth. Leave to dry.
- Mix the different shades of lemon, crimson, coral and dark purple and colour the glass to create the pumpkin effect with vertical brush strokes.
- Use crimson and dark purple to mark darker vertical lines on your pumpkin.
- Put a layer of coral and lemon mixed together between each vertical line.
- Add small spots of light to give your pumpkin volume. To do so, paint a few white lines and cover them with lemon yellow.
- While leaving your first pumpkin to dry out, make more pumpkins using the same principle with the other glasses. Ask an adult to clean your brush thoroughly using white spirit.
- Put a small LED candle inside each glass to illuminate your pumpkins and place them on a windowsill to celebrate Halloween!
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