I must be Martha Stewart's Evil Twin...
Baby Strange
dining-room chair with glitter paint, and it looks so cool!
You need--8 oz of artist's acrylic gloss medium, 3-4 oz of the glitter of
your choice, an artist's bristle brush, small spurts of free time here and
there, and a moderate amount of patience.
Mix the acrylic medium and glitter together. It will be kind of thick and
glunky when you brush it on, but if you dab at it with the brush in one
direction, it eventually spreads out (more or less) flat. You may need to
flick at the occasional stray piece that pokes out to make it lie down, but
do it carefully, or the paint you just laid down will clump up. The acrylic
medium is milky-looking when wet, but dries clear. As long as you put a lid
on the paint to keep it wet, you can work on your project here and
there--this stuff doesn't lend itself to being done all in one sitting; it
has to dry between coats. A hairdryer is great if you're in a hurry.
The first coat, especially on a smooth object, will look like shit--the
glitter doesn't cover very well until it has something to stick to. Usually
the third coat is where it starts looking good. It helps to paint the
object to be glittered with a color that works with the glitter color. Red
under gold, black under silver, green under green, blue under blue look
cool, but so does turquoise under green, or magenta under red. You can also
mix a transparent acrylic paint color and brush it over the glitter--blues
and greens over silver look great. You can also use collage
elements--pictures from magazines, old postcards, small plastic toys,
rhinestones, plastic jewels, seashells...
You can upholster the seat of a dining chair with plain canvas, then prime
it with gesso or latex paint and paint stuff on it, too.
Seal the whole thing with water-based varnish (Varathane's Diamond Finish is
best), and you is did. Then invite your most conservative relatives over
for dinner...
--
"Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for an hour--
set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
JayDee
<babys...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>You can upholster the seat of a dining chair with plain canvas, then prime
>it with gesso or latex paint and paint stuff on it, too.
ah, yes...the smell of gesso... woah/flash
>Seal the whole thing with water-based varnish (Varathane's Diamond Finish is
>best), and you is did. Then invite your most conservative relatives over
>for dinner...
anyone have that multicoloured glitter that is the major
component of one of the newer glitter-grrl nail polish?
it's composed of metallic square rods, about .25mm in
diameter, and about 3mm long, suspended in clear stuff
the trick in applying this stuff to the appropriate grrl is to
get the glitter to lay in one direction only, not randomly...
my relatives just appeared to be conservative
it's likely I had some influence upon them, too
ha!
turned-em out...
MissM...@idontthinkso.com
<babys...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>...or else the secret love child of Liberace. I'm painting a skanky old
>dining-room chair with glitter paint, and it looks so cool!
--snip--
>
>Seal the whole thing with water-based varnish (Varathane's Diamond Finish is
>best), and you is did. Then invite your most conservative relatives over
>for dinner...
Kewel! I have a friend that did a nifty chair with paint and really
cool buttons. The clothes type buttons. Buttons can be so beautiful!
--
Molly
"Everyone laughs when they come to the freak show, but
nobody laughs when they leave." The Residents
Baby Strange
Bombalurina <Bomba...@raeearr.com> wrote in message
news:76l1hs44lu95r5r8t...@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 04 May 2000 01:08:58 GMT, JayDee <jayd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 03 May 2000 18:48:59 -0500, Bombalurina
> ><Bomba...@raeearr.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, 03 May 2000 22:56:40 GMT, JayDee <jayd...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>anyone have that multicoloured glitter that is the major
> >>>component of one of the newer glitter-grrl nail polish?
> >
> >
> >ohmy...
> >
> ><read here much stuff²>
> >
> >hmm...
>
>
> well, you wouldn't see jennyanydots with this stuff on her claws, now
> would you?
>
> not that RTTugger would notice and all...
>
> <hehe>
>
Hey! That's cool! I never make it to the cosmetics section, so I'm always
forgetting what a great source of Weird Art supplies it is. Hmmmm.
Rite-Aid doesn't close until 9:00...
--
"Bow ties are a form of sartorial jujitsu" ---Don Drake
JayDee
<babys...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Hey! That's cool! I never make it to the cosmetics section, so I'm always
>forgetting what a great source of Weird Art supplies it is. Hmmmm.
>Rite-Aid doesn't close until 9:00...
be prepared to lay-out lots of $$$, for little bottles