surface treatment workshop - sample 2

Surface Treatment Workshop -- sample 2

Liquitex Acrylic Texture Gel:  Black Lava applied with palette knife and scraped with wooden clay tool.

Craft Smart Acrylic Paint: Wine applied with brush

L:  Chemtex Copper Metallic Finish
R: Rust solution w/ Vinegar applied with brush

Imitation Gold leaf applied to a wet layer of Mod Podge. 

Gold leaf rubbed with masking tape and surface sealed with Mod Podge.

Mask out tape removed.
Observations:  masking tape effective at removing gold leaf. 

Selected sections of interest:

Rust solution on right.

Gold leaf removed with dry wall tape on tight.

surface treatment workshop - sample 1

Surface Treatment Workshop - sample 1

Liquitex Acrylic Texture Gel: Black Lave applied with brush on periwinkle card stock.

Craft Smart Acrylic Paint: Wine applied with brush.

L: Chemtek Metallic Finish: Copper applied with brush
R:  Rust solution w/ Vinegar applied with brush

Americana Acrylic Paint: Orange Twist applied with brush and wiped with dry terrycloth towel using circular motions.

Americana Acrylic Paint: Green Tea dry brush stroke.

Mask out tape removed.
Observations:  Dry brush effective over more textured areas but was streaky where smooth.
Rust solution bled through last two layers.

Selected section of interest:  lower right.
 Rust bleed through is noticeable and dry brush is effective on high texture.

surface treatment workshop -- beginning

Surface Treatment Workshop: beginning

Parameters:  use stuff you have; try new things

Although a rigid substrate was suggested, card stock was affixed to vinyl place mats with masking tape (use what you have).  This set up allows me to move samples and clear the workspace as needed. Media and tool notations on masking tape can be moved to sample back when complete.

1. Liquitex Acrylic Texture Gel: Black Lava applied with brush.

2. Liquitex Acrylic Texture Gel: Black Lava applied with palette knife, removed with wooden clay tool.

3.  L: Ventilation tape over nylon cord, texture impressed with wooden clay tool.
R: Kitchen aluminum foil pressed onto rubber stamp, lower half filled with Mod Podge Gloss Luster.

4.  UL: Red Devil Onetime Lightweight Spackling applied with palette knife through grid stencil.
UR: Red Devil Onetime Lightweight Spackling applied with palette knife through grid stencil onto layer of speckling.
LL:  Red Devil Onetime Lightweight Spackling, tinted with black black texture gel applied with brush.
LR:  White Spectator pencil applied through stencil (far right: over red permanent marker).

5.  R: Sterling black shoe polish (paste) applied with Q-tip through grid stencil.
C. Grid stencil with smudged Sterling black shoe polish (paste) printed.
L: Sterling black shoe polish (paste)  applied with Q-tip.

6.  Liquitex Black Acrylic Gesso applied with brush through stencil.

7.  L:  Wine Craftsmart acrylic paint (vertical strokes) over wet Elmer's Glue-All.
R:  Wine Craftsmart acrylic paint  (random strokes)  over wet Elmer's white glue.

8.  C: "Silver" and "Gold" Joss paper.
UR:  Mod Podge Gloss Luster applied with brush through grid stencil.
L and LR: Imitation gold leaf over Mod Podge Gloss Luster applied with brush through grid stencil.