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Day 22: Painted Fall Wine Goblets

October 22, 2011 By Colleen Jorgenson Leave a Comment

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Hi there! I’m so excited to show you this Fall paint project today. Now, at first glance you might think that there’s no way you’d want to paint wine goblets. A few hours ago, I felt exactly the same way, believe me.
You see, I have a little history with painting wine glasses. As in, a few years ago I painted over 100 of them for a fundraiser. Let’s just say I never wanted to paint another wine goblet again, for any reason.

But when I got Martha Stewart’s new decorative paint that works on multi surfaces, including glass, I thought I’d give painting wine goblets one more try.

And I’m so glad I did.

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I started with a basic sketch of a pumpkin and some wheat, mainly because those are the colors I had in Martha’s line.

You can use regular acrylic craft paint on glass, but you’ll need to use a glass medium to prevent it from peeling off. And there are paints specially manufactured for glass too, but I was really happy with Martha’s paints.

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After washing the goblets – which I scored for 50 cents each at the thrift store – I wiped them down with rubbing alcohol and let them dry thoroughly.

You can slip the printable inside the goblet and it’ll give you a nice pattern to follow. You might want to secure it with painter’s tape too.

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I started with the tips of the wheat. I’ll share a wheat tutorial with you in a couple of days, ok?

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For the pumpkin, I started with one semi circle.

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Then another one on the opposite side.

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And just keep going until you reach the center.

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Now, you can fix little boo boos while the paint is still wet and just wipe them away. But I gotta tell you, I didn’t even see that little ‘tail’ until I saw this picture blown up.

Guess it’s time for some stronger glasses. Eye glasses, that is.

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Then I continued the wheat stalks underneath the pumpkins.

One of the things that always bugged me about painting glass was how it looked on the inside of the glass. I usually had blotches because the paint wouldn’t cover fully in one coat.

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Not too bad! I did use 2 coats of paint, following the same pattern as the first layer.

I’d like to think that maybe I had just gotten better at painting on glass but since I haven’t painted any since 2009, it’s gotta be Martha’s paint.

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I couldn’t leave the bases plain, so they got a few stalks of wheat too.

I knew I wanted to add some little swirls to the pumpkin and the wheat on the base. I thought maybe I’d do the swirls in metallic gold.

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So I figured, if the swirls get a little bling, why not the pumpkin too?

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A little pearl paint did the trick! Of course, I’m such a lame photographer that I couldn’t get a good shot, but trust me, next time you’re picking up some paint, grab some pearl paint by Martha.

Expect to see a lot of it in my Christmas tutorials. I’m just sayin’ . . .

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If you’ve read my pumpkin tutorial, you’ll notice I didn’t do any shading or highlighting here. I didn’t think it needed it because the brushstrokes on glass become the detail.

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So, yeah, I’m pretty happy. One Christmas present in the bag!

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Or I could always open a shop on Etsy. Hmm . . . .

Adventurez

Filed Under: crafts, Dollar Store Crafts, Metallic Paint, Paint Glass, Paint Surfaces, Paint Types, Pearl Paint, seasonal crafts

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