How to paint glass eyes

This is a very good tutorial to add some wonderful sparkling colours to some boring clear glass eyes for your teddy bear... :)

The materials you will need are:

• A pair of clear glass eyes of your choice
• Glittery or shimmer nail polish in the colour of your choice (I've used blue shimmer)
• Gold or silver acrylic paint (I've used gold)
• Black acrylic paint
• Some 'Blue Tack' or some plasticine (to hold the eyes to the surface you'll be working on)
• A fine liner brush and a flat brush

 

Use a small amount of Blue Tack to hold each eye to the bench or work surface

 

With the help of a liner brush, paint fine lines with gold paint on the back of the eyes. Let it dry completely.

 

Now paint the entire back of the eye with the nail polish of your choice (blue in my case). Let it dry.

 

Apply a second coat of nail polish to give the eyes good coverage and bring out the colour of the eyes. Let it dry thoroughly.

 

With a flat brush and black acrylic paint, paint the back of the eyes. Let the paint dry.

 

To protect the work you've done, paint the back of the eyes with clear nail polish and let it dry.

 

And voila!

You can paint clear glass eyes with any colour nail polish you wish, but you can also substitute the colour nail polish by painting the eyes with some white PVA glue, letting it dry and then brush some iridescent eye shadow powder over the dry PVA. Then protect the colour with some clear nail polish.