The Pigment Used in Hand Painted Wine Glass If you are troubling to find a good gift for your friends or lover, try hand painted wine glass. This not only can be used as a drinking set, but also can be used as beautiful handcrafts.
In today’s market, you can find a lot of hand painted glass with beautiful patterns, for example: fruits, birds, shoes, clothes, and figure. On the other hand, the pigment used to make hand painted products also is very important. Nowadays, pigments can be divided into different types, according to the usage, for example: spinning, ornament, paper craft, and glass. Here, we are going to talk about pigments which are suitable for glass. The glue of polyester resin can be used to make hand painted glass. Formed by the reaction of dibasic organic acid and polyhydric alcohols, polyester resins are unsaturated synthetic resins used in sheet and bulk moulding compound and the toner of laser printers. They are also the most widely used resins in the composites industry due to they are less expensive and have ability to resistance corrosion. Nowadays, more and more fiberglass parts are constructed using polyester resins; this is because this resin is easy to use, fast,
curing, and tolerant of temperature and catalyst extremes. In recent years, with DIY hand painted glass have appeared on the market, the glue of polyester resin prove to be more usages in this field. Other popular one used in hand painted goods is acrylic paint which is a fast-drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylics can be applied to the support in a number of different ways; and you can make acrylic paints by mixing pure powered pigment with a binder and a solvent. Moreover, you can make you own acrylic paint by following steps: add water or a clear alcohol to a pile of a pure ground pigment, and then mix with spatula; add the binder when the pigments are completely dispersed. Finally, acrylic paint is similar to manufactured acrylic paint. Nowadays, a lot of paintings adopt this kind of paint. If you are beginners, here are some tips for use acrylic painting for your reference: using flow-improver medium rather than just water and this can increase the flow of a color with minimal loss of color strength, you need to work fast if you wash to blend colors because of acrylics dry rapidly, squeeze only a little paint out of a tube at a time because acrylics dry so fast, just to name a few. In addition to pigment, brush also is a must tool to make you own hand painted glass. Now, there are many types of brushes on the market with different sizes and you can choose the suitable one for you. As mentioned earlier, patterns in hand painted glass are endless; so these glasses are so beautiful and enjoyable. If you are going to buy these hand painted products, in addition to traditional ways, online services will provide you more options in recent years.