need advice on leaves

[megan child]

Hi all,
I've had some great successes with my mirroring in recent months and thought to venture into more creativeness.
below is a design I did I'd like to put it onto the glass and back it up with silver to create a mirror.

I envisage doing a thin black outline of the tree and leaves and apples and then fill in the leaves, trunk and apples with colour but I'm not sure if I should screen print the colour, use an ink that sticks to glass, gild using veragated leaf or can you use mica powder (and how would you).

or do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks for your input

Meg

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[Roderick Treece]

Hi Megan,
I always try and do the mirroring first then do all the painting after. Good luck with it.

[Mike Jackson]

Megan,
You can always buy a commercial mirror, then mask the back of it with sandblast stencil. Cut and remove the areas where you will want color and lightly sandblast the backing and silver off the glass. Then just fill in the colors. You won't know it was ever etched and you'll have a perfect mirror background.

Remember to work backwards!

[megan child]

I remembered to work backwards and this is the finished product

[Tyler Tim]

Very Nice... Good Job