Subtractive Painting over Textured Acrylic "Silver Leaf"
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Create a simulated silver leaf from iridescent acrylic color (a new trick I picked up from my friend and colleague Patti Brady) then apply it over a texture and paint with a subtractive technique on top!
Supplies used:
Tissue paper - 1 sheet (the kind for gift wrapping)
Canvas panel - 8x10 inches
GOLDEN Fluid Iridescent Silver (Fine)*
GOLDEN Fluid Stainless Steel (Coarse)*
GOLDEN Fluid Violet Oxide*
GOLDEN OPEN Raw Umber*
GOLDEN OPEN Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold*
GOLDEN OPEN Manganese Blue Hue*
GOLDEN Regular Gel Semi-Gloss
Paintbrushes
Paper towel or cotton rags
*Colors can be switched out with others - i.e.: Irid Silver when applied in two coats can replaced the one coat of Irid Silver/Stainless Steel! Also try Gold and Copper paint here! The Violet Oxide underpainting can be replaced with any color you like, and the subtractive painting can also be done in any assortment of colors!
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Very creative! Beautiful!😊
Thank you!
Amazing!
I love it
Nice.....thanks.
Thank you Phyllis!
Wow :3
Amy, is you first book still in print?
Do you use acid free tissue paper? I am but it's expensive so I wonder if it really matters if it is or not. Please let me know. Thanks
Hi Janine, I did not use acid free paper and no it doesn't matter.
Wow! When you say to use a tissue paper, what do you mean? Is it a white tissue like a “Kleenex”, only one layer I would suppose?
Or is it more sort of an onion skin paper, or a “Japanese” paper, or a tracing or something else?
Have you experimented on a few kind of papers and found one that was more appropriate?
I am thanking you in advance for your response! I am looking forward to experiment it...
Hi Jasmine, I used tissue paper that one would use for gift wrapping, you could also use thin Japanese papers - Hiromi paper in Los Angeles has some nice thin/flexible ones that stay flat/unwrinkled as you paint them, but tissue paper is inexpensive and works just fine if you don't mind a few little wrinkles in the paper as you brush color across!
Thanks!
Amy Shawley how did you prevent it from ripping?
What kind of paper did you use for the base? I tried this to create an iridescent light silver leaf effect but found tissue paper fell apart easing so I had to bind the tissue to an a acrylic akin.
Hi Janine, I used a sheet of tissue paper that you would use for gift wrapping. The goal is to use a material that is thin and delicate so that it more accurately mimics metal leaf, which is also very thin and delicate. I used one coat of color, but two coats of acrylic color will reinforce the surface more. Regarding your question about ripping, as you will see in the video, I am ripping the painted paper into smaller squares, so the surface is designed to be thin enough to rip - when you are gluing the squares down, do one row at a time and be gentle with the squares to prevent ripping as you apply pressure on them over the textured surface.
no what I meant was while I was applying the paint to the tissue it caaused rips or holes in the tissue. How to I prevent that.. it basically started to fall apart as I applied the paint.
Hi Janine, to apply my color I used a soft wide brush to spread around Fluid acrylic using light pressure and careful strokes - in doing this, my paper did not rip while painting. Try moving the brush in one direction first and avoid quick back and forth motions. Make sure there is no water in the brush, just the paint by itself, additional water will make the paper rip more easily. As an extra step, I taped down four plastic sheet protectors under my paper, then taped the paper down and made sure it was pulled taut first - less slack on the paper and a smooth surface underneath helped the paint glide easier over the surface.