painting w/oil, acrylic?

[Claudia Whitten]

I am aware of the work done by Danny Perkins and others who use oil for painting on sandblasted surfaces. I am wondering if anyone knows of using acrylic paints. From the painting world my brother was telling me about an painter named Eric Lee who is painting with acrylics on glass. I could not find this artist in a search and was hoping my some of you good folks would have heard of means of painting on glass without firing. What about acrylics?
thanks, Claudia

[Wes Hunting]

Lisa and I are doing a two man show at Avalon Gallery in Delray Beach, FL next week. Eric Lee has a show next door at Forms Gallery. We will all be in attendance.

561-274-FORM www.formsgallery.com (their website may not be working)

[Claudia Whitten]

Wes,
Your right their web site is down. I will try later. Do you know this guys work, let me know what you think. Is he from FL? I will try another search on him.
Thanks, Claudia

[Wes Hunting]

All I know of his work is from what I have seen on the poster, that the two of us share. I do like the image of the work I have seen. Kind of a late Hans Hoffman thing going on. Email me your address and I will send you one. I will pick his brain a little if I see a comfortable time to do so. We are flying back on Sunday.

[Wes Hunting]

Thats the stuff,
Thanks Alex.
You the man!

[Claudia Whitten]

Thanks for the site Alex,
It was nice to see his work.
Claudia

[Henry Halem]

That style of painting by Mr. Lee can easily be done using glass enamels. To accomplish that effect you would be doing reverse painting and would have to fire at least twice but that depends on how you wish your colors to blend. I say reverse painting as I'm assuming your making coffee tables and wish a smooth top surface. You can enamel on either a standard glass surface or on a sandblasted surface. Your first painting would be your color painted in the same fashion as one would paint an oil painting. Fire this layer, repeat if you wish to add colors and fire again. Your final layer would be your white ground or any ground color you wish to use. Using the white ground permits you to use thin washes of colored enamels similar to water color painting. I have used this technique for many years with what I thought was great success but alas sales were meagre. Then again I wasn't making coffee tables. Hmmm coffee tables.

[Claudia Whitten]

Thanks for the input Henry,
I paint with enamels and have done some reverse painting. I use paradise paints. My brother who is an artist uses acrylic paints, he would like to do some reverse paintings on glass using the acrylics. He has kilns but not big enough to fire as he works really large, lots of them 4'x6'.
Have you heard of anyone using the acylics? I am aware of Danny Perkins adding color with oils, after sandblasting I assume. That is all I was aware of other than enamels.
Claudia

[Henry Halem]

Claudia, Just a word to tell you that Paradise paints are very different than glass enamels. The Paradise paints are really very high temperature enamels formulated for steel but David Hopper found that they work very well when cased for blowing. The standard type of glass enamels, available from Reusche, mature at low temperatures and really lend themselves to painting on glass as the maturing temperature of the glass enamels is lower than the softening point of plate glass.