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O.K. I have seen several pieces done by Amanda Sinnamon on eBay and I want the skinny on the metallic powder coats and powder coats in general. They sound fun. What do you guys know about them and what works best?
Regards,
Laura
Hmm, well, I’m not entirely sure what powder coats you mean, so contacting the painter is really the best method 🙂 I think you mean pastels for the matte colors and maybe Pearl-ex for the metallics? This thread talks about Pastels a bit:
http://www.windstoneeditions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2140&start=0Besides Asinnamon, a few other forum members use them to beautiful results 😀
There’s also Pearl-Ex pigments which I think several brands make and Nam said that she is using Mica pigments on her Emperors (which someone told me is similar to Pearl-Ex, but I can’t confirm that so you have to ask her yourself). The only Mica pigments I use are BareMinerals, and they go on my face, not my PYOs 😛 But maybe I’ll test it on one of them in the future.
I was thinking of something like this:
Has anyone worked with them? Thanks for all the help!
embossing powder needs something sticky to hold it in place before you heat set it. it is used in conjunction with rubber stamps; you use a special ink or stamp pad that has a slightly sticky finish to it. stamp your article (card, book, paper, etc.) while the stamped image is still wet, sprinkle embossing powder over it. carefully dump off the extra powder and save it. don’t brush or blow on the embossing powder; it’ll blow away at this point. set the powder by expossing it to a heat source ie. heat gun, light bulb or stove burner. apply heat from underside of stamped image and keep item moving until all the powder melts. you are left with a nice raised image where the powder was. don’t touch it until it cools. I don’t think these can be used like pastels or chalk.
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Yup, just ask me. The mediums I use that are ‘powders’ are chaulk pastels & Pearl Ex pigments by Jaquard. The pastels are just that, the pastel sticks we used as kids(NOT cra-pas), they feel like chaulk. I scrap them with a razor blade to produce a very fine powder, or in the case of the newest brand in my arsenal, Unison, I just run my brush over the stick itself.
To get the metallics, I use the pearl ex. They are just little tubs of metalic powder and I apply them with a brush. I have found them at AC Moore and Dick Blick….
asinnamon wrote:To get the metallics, I use the pearl ex.
Aww, I thought I was the only person to have discovered those! 🙂 I love the Pearl-Ex powders! They make such neat effects; they’re what I used for the interference colors on my Kite griffin. (Whom I keep meaning to post pictures of, but now I’ve lost my camera cord…)
I get mine from the Dharma Trading Co (http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/1933-AA.shtml).
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
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