The final step in completing my Friendly Plastic angel wings and steampunk gearwheel embellishments that I made yesterday was to give them a metallic look.
The first step was to paint them with black gesso. I did this front and back, making sure I got well between the teeth of the various gearwheels.
Once they were dry, I applied three colours of gilding wax randomly to the gearwheels: gold, silver and copper, blending them to give an overall metallic effect that was slightly tarnished-looking.
Unfortunately the photo doesn’t really show up the differences in the colour. For the two pairs of angel wings and the heart and wing embellishment, I confined myself to gold gilding wax.
I painted the heart red, using the Dylusions paint in Postbox Red.
The three pairs of wings.
I am extremely pleased with how these turned out, and I shall definitely be making some more.
I have some silk clay on order to experiment with, too, and I am also going to re-try the UTEE method with the addition of some laser acetate sheet to strengthen them.
Oh my god, Shoshi, the Embellies were a dream. Wonderful, very, very, wonderful. The heart with the wings is my favorite. Soooo nice.
ReplyDeleteNow i'm fly away with your golden wings and leave greetings from germany.
You are amazing, Shoshi! Those are awesome.
ReplyDeleteHi Shoshi, someone's been busy while I wasn't looking! I shall have to have a good nosey round all of this1
ReplyDeleteHope you're having a good weekend and happy crafting, Angela xXx
Great to see you creating beautiful art! Hope all is going well on the hospital front. X
ReplyDeleteThese turned out awesome!!!!
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