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i bought this product to create wine glasses with. i am used to working with a thicker paint so this surprised me that it was so thin and then recognized it was transparent. the wine glass still turned out great! i had to use 2-3 coats and had to be very patient bc since this is a thin paint it can drip easily. other than that, my glasses have turned out great! :)
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I didn't buy this particular set (although I wish I had rather than invididually!) but I thought I would review the Pebeo Vitrea paints in general.I first purchased some of the gloss glass paint and the outliner tubes to decorate wine glasses for my wedding party. I was pretty impressed with the paint and it was very easy to use. I painted 5-point flower petals in a different color for each bridesmaid, and used the outliners to paint their names in a script font.
Making mistakes with this paint is OKAY! A huge mistake wipes off easily with rubbing alcohol to start fresh, and I recommend doing it this way until you get familiar with the paint. A small mistake can be easily fixed by first letting it air dry for an hour or two. I was able to take a wood toothpick and clean up lines or mistakes and the paint didn't CHIP off, but allowed me to work with it and reveal the glass underneath with no problem. You can actually scrape the paint off at any point before it's oven-cured.
The colors are really pretty. The frosted versions are much more opaque than the gloss versions which are a bit more transparent than you would expect.
The absolute BEST thing about this glass paint and the main reason I am writing this review and gave it 5 stars: I use my own painted wine glass atleast once a week and it goes right in the dishwasher. I've had it for about 2 years now, and it still looks PERFECT. The longevity of this paint when cured correctly (follow the instructions on the bottle) is simply amazing.
I've painted other wine glasses for gifts since my first attempt and I'm very sad that Michael's no longer sells this brand. (Michael's now sells Martha Stewart glass paint and every review I read says that you can scratch that right off with your nail even after curing! EEK!) I would have to try really hard, with a razor blade, to scratch the Pebeo Vitrea paint from my glasses.
I'll be buying some more Pebeo Vitrea paint from Amazon to make some more gifts. :)
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This paint is glorious.Takes a little getting used to, some of the colors are more opaque than others, and mixing them can get a little muddy. But the colors are vibrant, and under typical application/drying/baking the paint itself stands up extremely well! I've a year+ old set of glasses painted with Pebeo that have gone through multiple hot water hand AND machine washings and look as good as the day they were painted.
This (and other) similar sets are definitely the way to start out with the paints the cheapest price I've found for a decent array of colors that should be a good starting palette for most painters. And this paint goes a long way! After couple of dozen glasses painted, with decent coverage of paint on each and more than a little wastage of unused paint, I am only down barely a third of even the most used colors!
Also I'd definitely recommend the mediums & thinners for watering them down over just using water (despite the paint's water solubility). Possibly it's just a trick I haven't gotten the hang of yet, but the paints much easier to work with the former technique than the latter!
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