Painted Window Splash Tutorial

I am using water-based Plaka paint. Everything I paint is on the inside & drawn in reverse.
I start by laying out my design with a chalk pen on the outside of the glass, Freely drawing from the shoulder, nothing is formal. I tend to make most of it up as I go along…

My initial plan was to paint an arrow to show the direction they’re moving as a stripe and link all the elements on that!
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Anyone knowing my work will know I do like to use plenty of colours, in particular fluorescents etc. However, in this case, using the customer’s existing colours, I thought I would tie the whole thing together not to conflict with the rest of the window.
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after having sketched the layout on the outside of the glass using a chalk pen, drawing the shapes and bold text such as the numbers.
All other text is just scribbled one stroke (not to use as guidance, more to remind me what to paint and where)
Inside I have started to paint/fill in the first colour, which I decide should be the most visual, in this case, it is yellow!
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Next, I outline what I have just painted in black about half an inch thick and also run along the outside of the arrow stripe
And around the circle. Followed by lettering the text that runs within the stripe

Trying not to go over the back of the yellow because it will show as darkening on the outside

The word ‘to‘ is painted again in grey as a drop shadow this will give extra interest when the white goes on
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Once all is dry. I use, in this case, a small foam roller that I have cut in half so giving me a roller about 2 inches wide.
With this, I roll on the white, lapping just over the edge of the black, I also go over the yellow, as this tends to brighten it up a bit more.
It may look a mess from the inside but that doesn’t matter. It’s how it looks on the outside that counts!
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Most splashes are then further outlined in a light colour usually white though on this I wanted to bring in more yellow to link all the elements together
The ‘fabrics to clear ‘was roughly drawn on the outside, painted in black inside then just rolled again with the same roller this time with yellow
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The last thing to do is clean the scribbles off the glass outside with a kitchen cleaner
Start to finish about 5 hours and 4 cups of tea, lovely!