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Hey guys! So, this New Years I decided to break out my chalk pastels and attempt to customize one of my stablemate victims that I have had lying around. (You can see her here http://rosannapbrost.tumblr.com/post/39458393923/this-ones-a-not-quite-wip-because-the-horse-is ) The thing is, is that even though I have customized a horse before to good success in acrylics (you can see her here-> http://rosannapbrost.tumblr.com/post/21635135149/pila-roman-cavalier-sorry-for-the-terrible ) I’m still VERY new at this sort of thing. Some examples of my failures along the way:
1. While customizing Pila (my first custom) I sprayed her with Krylon Matte Finish to finish her off and it clouded her paint job, making it so that I had to almost completely repaint her. I’m so scared of the bloody stuff now that I don’t even really want to touch it for anything, petrified that it will ruin something else.
2. Also, Pila was originally also supposed to be a pastel work but because I didn’t have the right spray (Krylon Workable Fixatif) the pastelling didn’t really work and I turned to acrylic paint, being more familiar with that. It took me over a year to confirm that I had used the wrong spray and that I should have used the Workable Fixatif, which I promptly bought as soon as I had a chance.
3. A while back, I tried to pastel another horse but AGAIN I didn’t have the right spray. (This was before I got a can of Workable Fixatif.) Having had success with Krylon Crystal Clear in preserving several paintings, thinking I had the right spray, I stupidly sprayed it directly onto the fresh pastel – not only did it ruin the pastel, but it cracked the (Krylon) primer underneath! I was horrified and I still haven’t fixed that horse up so that I can give customizing it another go. (Luckily I have a veritable herd of stablemate victims at the moment, thanks to a buddy, so fixing this horse really isn’t urgent.)
So, this new horse (Sloven Silverfox/Sparkler) looks great – FINALLY I have successfully pastelled a model horse and I am happy! I’m going to give her another few coats of Workable Fixatif (tomorrow, since I only just painted on her markings today) but after that, WHAT DO I DO TO PROTECT HER? D: I’m terrified of messing her up by using the wrong spray! Do I spray her with several coats of Krylon Crystal Clear? Or the Matte Finish? Or do I just give her a bunch more coats of the Fixatif? I’m asking you guys, since even though she’s obviously not a windstone, you guys definitely have experience in the field of customization?
To sum it up, do I finish her with:
A. Tons more coats of Krylon Workable Fixatif
B. Krylon Crystal Clear
C. Krylon Matte Finish (kind of scared of this one, after what it did to Pila.)Pleeeease I need adviiiice! D: Thank you for looking! (I also hope this is in the right forum!)
Check out my finished artwork at http://falcolf.deviantart.com/ and my sketch/studio blog at http://rosannapbrost.tumblr.com/
Excellent!
I use Testors brand ‘dullcote’
it’s a matte finish laqueur spray that feels wonderful when it’s dry, and I think it does pretty well with pastels. I’ve pastelled a few, but that was before I had the dullcote. I most recently used it as a topcoat to kill the high gloss finish my last custom was sitting in (which was Rust-o-leum crystal clear enamel, which killed my pastels a -little-, but then, I was using eyeshadow, so I wasn’t overly surprised at that…)
The rustoleum stuff worked great on an all acrylic stablemate, and putting the dullcote over it gives it a very pleasant luster-satin look.
I switched to dullcote after hearing multiple breyer artists swear by it. It comes in little cans in most hobby shops in the model car painting section, generally.
I’ll have to buy some when I can afford it, but in the mean time, would any of what I have in stock work? There’s not really any chance of my being able to buy any dullcote soon and I really want my horse to be protected – the Fixatif doesn’t seem all that durable. Thank you so much!
Check out my finished artwork at http://falcolf.deviantart.com/ and my sketch/studio blog at http://rosannapbrost.tumblr.com/
Excellent!
I’ll have to buy some when I can afford it, but in the mean time, would any of what I have in stock work? There’s not really any chance of my being able to buy any dullcote soon and I really want my horse to be protected – the Fixatif doesn’t seem all that durable. Thank you so much!
Well, if you’re just going to display it until you can get dullcote, a couple layers of fixatif should do fine as a holdover. I’ve also found that some colors of pastel are more durable than others, so it’s really hard to judge how any given fixative will affect them. You might try pastelling a piece of paper or something with the chalks you used, then spray it with the different kinds of sealer you have to see how it affects the colors you used on this particular horse.
That’s a good idea, thank you so much! 😀 Yeah, I don’t intend to really travel with her or anything, so hopefully the fixatif will do for now. 🙂
Check out my finished artwork at http://falcolf.deviantart.com/ and my sketch/studio blog at http://rosannapbrost.tumblr.com/
Excellent!
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