It looks WONDERFUL!! You go girl!!
I just got back from WM and bought some enamel paint for glass. Its Folk Art brand. It says to let air dry for 21 days, or air dry for 1 hour, then bake in oven 350 for 30 min. It says not for contact with food, but is handwash and top rack dishwasher safe, so it must be durable.
I have about 10 1 foot square pieces of clear glue chip glass. (A few years ago I was gonna go wild making candle shelters.)
Glad to have found a use for it all!!

WOUZA !!!! And all my favorite colors.

A BIG DOH here.What do you mean"Dry Application" I have never used this enamel glass paint before. Wish we were heading right back to town. Darn will have to wait another week or so to try to find this paint.

WONDERFUL colors!!

Thanks for sharing this.

Chris

OMG that's beautiful Slow! looks just like the real thing!

SHADES: By dry application on the first part is: Brush the whole sheet w/black paint, w/paper towel, wipe off so that only the texture shows in black - you know - like when you faux-finish walls - you put the dark on, wipe off to leave the shadows of the dark. Then paint w/your regular colors - metallics are fabulous. Then, there are the iridescent enamels - do the same but I used two coats of that. The last coat is another black. On the gold leaf tiles, mentioned in BAMA's thread, I put the adhesive on, then gold leaf, then the red basecoat that is recommended UNDER gold leaf for the old world effect, then a coat of black. ROSIE was just here, and she said the faux Van Gogh looks so authentic. We can't tell the difference in the ones we bought and the ones I made. In fact, the purple looks like the same shade of paint. She said "poor Maria - just lost customers". Seriously, I'll never BUY Van Gogh again. It's so satisfying to DIY. I'm making this up but I'll just bet that's how the VG is made - paint on textured glass then baked on. Now I know how I'm gonna treat a concrete pig I've had sitting out back for more than a year - PINK VAN GOGH w/purple accents.

I think you are on the right track Slow!! The only thing for me is the time factor, so I'll buy some and make some LOL.

Maria

FYI to anyone wanting to experiment w/this: I just called one of the glass shops in my town and the clerk said they have LOTS of textured clear glass. I'll be in there next week buying clear glass. It MAY be less expensive than at the stained glass shops or HobLob. Even it it isn't, I don't have to wait until HobLob restocks - which isn't often.

SLOW: I dug up this thread because I needed to ask, how do you keep enough black showing to show the texture? I tried this tonight, and seemed to wipe back off everything, just left it all hazy gray with very little texture. I AM using glue chip glass (I THINK! It looks frosty-ferny, just some scraps.) Then my colored paint looks dull compared to you and BAMA's. But I didn't use metallics except for the gold spray paint at the end. I want to get this to work, love the effect! Fortunately I have lots of scrap to practice on!

Just wipe the black off lightly, and if you wipe too much, just drybrush more on. It should just touch the texture. Let it dry before you paint the other coats, or it w/mix and be muddy.

These are beautiful for sure. However I do believe that I've read Van Gogh is a silver (or foil) backed glass.

Are you painting the entire back of the glass, or JUST against the textured areas? (Sorry I'm being such a pain about this.) I'm sure part of the problem is that not all my paints are metallic. But the black sure didn't look right either. I'll keep trying!

Ronnie, For the 1st black coat,I doubt it's necessary to paint the whole thing, in fact why don't you try just rubbing it on then with a clean dry cloth wipe it off?

Maybe it looks better than I think. I was gonna take a pic to see how it compared to BAMA's and SLOW's online, but my camera battery is dead dead dead. I have new ones coming in the mail, and hope that's all that's wrong with the camera.

Here is a discription of Van Gogh I got off a sellers website.
"Van Gogh is a beautiful glass that is handpainted by the manufacturer with rich metallic paints. The colors have black "ferns" running through them which make this a truly unique glass. It is great for mosaic work as it is completely opaque and sealed on the back."

wow wow and WOW...nnow Im getting the bug to make some myself..I'm still reading up on the process from you guys...cause I have the same question...The textured side is what is being painted right????? I ordered some van gogh about a week ago...now I can't wait for it to get here so I can really look at it and compare it if I make (not if but when!) my own.

Thanks Slow for the dry brushing of the black information. I tried it with a shot of black spray paint before I saw your description and that did not work. Going to try this again. I just LOVE what you all are doing with it. And how perfect when we need just the right color and do not have it at hand in our stash. I did spray paint some gold over the black and tested cutting it and did not have trouble. This is really going to be fun. Thanks for the great ideas and directions.

I wonder how it might be to just dab the other colors on with paper towel here and there?? Just thinking out loud. might be dangerous. LOL

Chris

Yeah so I don't know how to see pics of these faux van gogh tiles everyone is talking about. Pointers please :) Is there a link somewhere I'm not seeing? Thanks for your help :)