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Finally…here are some photos! All are done my usual way with a mix of paint and powders. The copper one is amazing in person, the pictures aren’t anywhere near what she looks like in real life. She is base coated in taupe, then done in copper & red russet pigments. Her belly & sides & tail scales are all faded from copper to russet, but it doesn’t really show up in the photos at all, her wings are done in the same fashion. She is antiqued in a dark copper…She relly is beautiful!
The white and blue is a commission done in metallic white base coat paint, pearl white pearl ex and blue pastels. Her claws, wing points and those little dots on her head are gold leaf.
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Oooh! I like the black one.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmBeautiful work! How do you get the powders to ‘stick’ (is that the word I want?) stay on the paint….
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Argh! Can’t see pics at work. I can’t wait to get home and see what they look like. The copper sounds wonderful!
twindragonsmum wrote:Beautiful work! How do you get the powders to ‘stick’ (is that the word I want?) stay on the paint….
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I use a couple different sprays from krylon. When I’m working with pastel dust, I use a matte spray for good ‘tooth’. So, I dust on a layer of color, spray, let it dry, dust on more or different color, spray, etc…until I get it where I want it. Then I give it a good coat or two of the glossy spray. The pearl ex podwers I use don’t mind one bit what I lay them over, matte or glossy, they stick, then I just spray over them. The only thing it’s not a good idea to do is try to apply paint over a glossy coat, or even pastel dust for that matter. The paint will pool up like oil on water, and the pastel dust will just get pushed around by your brush and make little lines(think street sweeper in the dry dusty summer lines)…
azgirl – I’m headed to the po for you in the morning, if you want the litter mates I’ll send them too…. 😉
I have to say I love the little white and blue girl personally. She was fun to do and totally cooperated. The copper one was tricky, and honestly looks SO much better in real life, I can’t even tell you how much better. I hated him/her until I got out my dark copper paint and antiqued. The taupe base coat for some reason went really green on me once i got the copper and russet started. I was gonna scrap the whole thing until I remember my liquitex antique copper!! And, the black I hate. He was a pain in the a** from day one. I shouldnt say I hate him, i just really don’t like parts of him and they throw off the whole thing for me. I used both russet red and red interference on him. The russet came out lovely, the interference red came out too white-ish and too violet. I ended up going over it with a LIGHT dusting of russet just to make it look presentable. It’s wierd about the interference red too because it’s a powder, so why did it come out so ‘white’ looking? Who knows…just one of those things I guess!
asinnamon wrote:twindragonsmum wrote:Beautiful work! How do you get the powders to ‘stick’ (is that the word I want?) stay on the paint….
twindragonsmum
I use a couple different sprays from krylon. When I’m working with pastel dust, I use a matte spray for good ‘tooth’. So, I dust on a layer of color, spray, let it dry, dust on more or different color, spray, etc…until I get it where I want it. Then I give it a good coat or two of the glossy spray. The pearl ex podwers I use don’t mind one bit what I lay them over, matte or glossy, they stick, then I just spray over them. The only thing it’s not a good idea to do is try to apply paint over a glossy coat, or even pastel dust for that matter. The paint will pool up like oil on water, and the pastel dust will just get pushed around by your brush and make little lines(think street sweeper in the dry dusty summer lines)…
azgirl – I’m headed to the po for you in the morning, if you want the litter mates I’ll send them too…. 😉
I have to say I love the little white and blue girl personally. She was fun to do and totally cooperated. The copper one was tricky, and honestly looks SO much better in real life, I can’t even tell you how much better. I hated him/her until I got out my dark copper paint and antiqued. The taupe base coat for some reason went really green on me once i got the copper and russet started. I was gonna scrap the whole thing until I remember my liquitex antique copper!! And, the black I hate. He was a pain in the a** from day one. I shouldnt say I hate him, i just really don’t like parts of him and they throw off the whole thing for me. I used both russet red and red interference on him. The russet came out lovely, the interference red came out too white-ish and too violet. I ended up going over it with a LIGHT dusting of russet just to make it look presentable. It’s wierd about the interference red too because it’s a powder, so why did it come out so ‘white’ looking? Who knows…just one of those things I guess!
Thanks so much for such a complete answer. I’ve wanted to try using powdered pigments but didn’t quite know how to start…. 😳 Now I’ll have to get brave and just try 😀
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