Painting Porcelain Christmas Toy: Buran and Energia

Happy Cosmonautics Day!

I, as always, present you one more tutorial on painting porcelain Christmas toys — the first spaceplane of the Soviet reusable space transport system Buran.

In the work I use stained glass painting technique on the base of mother-of-pearl coating, which allows to achieve an awesome effect — a glass toy.

Many talented artists work in our workshop and each of them is unique. I would love to thank Irina Maslennikova for this Buran! :) It was she who made the model of plasticine, which later turned into such a wonderful porcelain toy! :)

Video tutorial has a purpose of demonstration.

Used material:

  • stained glass paints Glasmal Farbe C. Kreul.

Stages of painting:

  • primer;
  • painting.

I would compare this technique with Alla Prima technique in watercolor, we do not use contours and paint directly on the figure, playing with colors, shades and transitions.

Below you will find a video with the process of painting! :)