Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716-1780)
"Still Life with Small Pears Bread Flask Bowl and Dry Leaves" (1760)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
This sea glass DIY requires only two things: Krylon Sea Glass Spray Paint and a glass bottle or jar. That’s it. I bought the paint on Amazon but it is available at any craft or hardware store.
You can use any clear glass bottle or jar you want. Mason jars like these, bottles from the thrift store, dollar store, or even empty jars and clear wine bottles from the trash!! All clear glass decorative accents you might have laying around are good candidates. (warning: you’ll be tempted to use this on them all so you may have to reign yourself in)
I’ve used the sea glass spray in “aqua” but it also comes seven other colors including amber as well as just a frosted clear finish. I can’t wait to try out the “seafoam” which makes gorgeous green sea glass. I’m on the lookout for a project to use it in and will share when I do!
How to make DIY sea glass bottles.
It’s fairly straightforward on how to use spray paint (duh), but I can share some tips I learned from my first go round:
Clean the glass and make sure it’s dry before you spray. A lot of times old glass is dusty and grimy or had oil based food in it.
Set up an area outside away from everything. Because overspray and paint fumes. I find ripping apart a box headed to the recycle bin makes a good base for painting.
Spray a very light coat from at least 12 inches away. If you hold the can closer, you will get much more opaque, intense color. This paint dries almost immediately with a thin coat…at least it did for me in our heat! If you want more coverage or color, go back and spray a second very light coat. Better to go slow in thin layers and add.
I was going for a more “vintage” glass look than “sea glass” so I just wanted a hint of blue tint. So these don’t have as much of the frosted opaque sea glass “texture“. You can still see the glass shine with this very light coat.
I turned my jars upside down and sprayed first from that direction to achieve the old glass look that was still somewhat clear. After I turned the jars over I sprayed just a little more over the top.
I love you small table that I use as a night stand that I got for the pretty design and from the side of the rode and walked it home like 10 blocks but you can't see the pretty design because like all flat surfaces it became a dump ground for more than I planned it to have <3