Picking Glass for Restoring Broken Painted Pieces
Ok, I am back and ready to explain more. So, hold on to your glass cutter. I have been catching myself saying things about working with glass that I forget that I know.
For whatever reason, when there is a grey or brown wash on a piece of glass with some trace lines, the actual glass appears darker than it is. This happens even in a area on a piece of glass that isn't painted. I think that it is some kind of trick that your eye plays on you. So always go a shade lighter on the glass selection when recutting glass. Also, you can use textured glass if there is a wash on it because often times the wash blocks the texture. Also, a trick that I use to mimic strange warped pieces that were probably warped in the original firing of the glass in one of those spooky gas kilns of yester year is to use water glass. Water glass is distorted in a very similar way as old over fired pieces of glass.
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