Really Neat Window Art

Window art is not a new thing in garden circles. Nope, one only need to look around to find all sorts of windows with art either painted on them or mosaic-ed on them. The windows on this post are unique in that they showed me that you could layer paint onto the window and have the window art look great from both sides-the painted side and the glass side (nonpainted side). 

Note the above window that shows the flowers as painted on top of the glass. Normally I would paint flowers so that the glass side would be the front and you'd look at the painting from the bottom of it. It is very hard to layer paint from the top of the viewed painting down so I always worried that graduations in the painted work would not show thru if you looked at the painting from the glass side.



But this picture shows the back of a painted window-the glass side or non-painted side and it looks fine. It is obvious the artist started his or her layering with white; which was not so visible from the painted side but still, I don't think that the merging of the paint took away from this side of the artwork at all.




Here is one last painting-again displayed from the painted side. The disadvantage of displaying windows in this manner if displayed outside is that the paint may wear off rather quickly. Looking at these windows in the Callaway Gardens Gift Shop though I don't think that there would be a big difference in the painting no matter how you displayed your painting. My compliments to the artist who did a wonderful job making these flower window art paintings attractive no matter which side of the window you viewed them from...

in the garden....

P.S. That's Mr. Fix-it in the second picture. He is trying to help me figure it all out with the paint layers. 

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