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Tag Archives: plaster
Glazing your mixed-media painting
The second half of our mixed media class was about painting over the plaster/spackle texture. First apply acrylic medium over the texture and let dry, unless you want the colours to immediately be sucked into the plaster. Then mix up colours … Continue reading
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Additions to Spackle Add Even More Texture to your Painting
The next demo in my mixed-media class was to add even more texture to the spackle mix by adding sand, pebbles, grit or other similar things. The trick is to mix it thoroughly, NOT just sprinkle it on top. Jeanne made … Continue reading
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Using spackle to add texture to your paintings
Basic Acrylic/Spackle Mix and Pressed Textures Our second mixed-media class was about using spackle to add texture to your paintings. Jeanne gave us some hints about using texture: in a realistic image the texture should go closer to the ‘front’ … Continue reading
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thinking in black & white
Perhaps use sparkly carborundum grit together with plaster for a ‘granite’ painting, inspired by the plaster walls embedded with mirror that I saw in India. Continue reading
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Tagged black and white, creative, granite, India, inspiration, mirror, photography, plaster, sparkly, stones
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