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Glass is synonymous with transparency, with light. Decorating glass means decorating the light that passes through it. Alongside the better-known, more complex techniques of colouring molten glass and creating stained glass windows, there are a number of fascinating traditional techniques for colouring glass cold, recently enriched by the new potential of today’s innovative materials. Idea glass colours are solvent-based because this is the only way to guarantee outstanding stability to light and adaptability to variations in temperature, achieving unrivalled durability. Painting on glass is traditionally as delicate and ephemeral as glass itself. At one time it was a very exclusive art, but today’s synthetic resins have made it more popular, now that it is easy to paint on any glass surface, including mirrors, as well as metal and stoneware, using a variety of decorative techniques.

Idea glass colours are highly versatile, for use with techniques permitting all types of decoration by both traditional and modern methods, with no exceptions. The thirteen transparent ready-to-use colours require some skill and experience for best results. The twelve water-based relief colours are soft and easy to work with, and dry rapidly. Decorating glass means building on fragility; it is a preference for intangibility, for the language of transparency.