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kishley s studio wednesday 5 august 2015 working with wooden surfaces i do a lot of mixed media work and this is the first time i am actually writing a related tutorial your feedback is appreciated i started with these wooden cars some of them are smudged from corners since they have already been painted on the other side by my 3 yo daughter step 1 prepare the surface there are many ways to prepare a surface that can hold your choice of paints and colours i usually use a gesso as base and then one or two layers of acrylic paint i don t often use a paint brush for the base as i don t particularly like the visible brush strokes to get an even coat using brushes you will need to do it multiple times allowing drying time in between coats i am not that patient though you might notice that for this particular tutorial i have used brushes everywhere solely for to get things done quicker i use ranger cut n dry foam to prepare the base check this link the left side in below pic is done using brush and right side using foam the difference is huge two coats using foam gives a very smooth surface paint brush vs foam coating the surface i cut small squares of about 1 to 1 5 and they last a long time if you wash them immediately each time after using them there are two side of this foam black side is less porous and white side is normal foam black one works best to cover large surface base and white one works best for stenciling using inks acrylics black side actually absorbs less and spreads the colour better in the below pic you can see the foam piece i used the amount of colour you see on it was enough to cover two cars foam square used with acrylic with acrylic as base keep in mind that they are water based but when dry they allow very little interaction if you try multiple coats of different colours you can see that coats do not mix even when you use extra water there are different types of acrylic thin heavy body low pigment high pigment translucent opaque the usual ones we get from craft shops are medium pigment and dry pretty quickly docrafts artiste acrylic that i have used here is touch dry in about half an hour and i use my heat gun to shorten it to 5 minutes there is another one i use called paperartsy fresco finish which is touch dry in 5 minutes without the heat gun if you want to work with the raw wooden look get a coat of clear drying gesso using the wooden surface without a base will lead to a lot of bleeding in the below pic i stamped using stazon can you notice the bleeding on right side car i do not have clear gesso so i prepared the surface with clear nail polish and surprisingly that works well too clear nail paint base coat vs no base coat step 2 working on prepared surface there are a lot of ways you can work on the prepared surface stencils stamping colouring etc i am going to focus on stamping here though principles are the same for all mediums choose your medium carefully at this step or experiment with the supplies you have usual choices are water based acrylic based or alcohol based mediums water based mediums are water pencils usual pigment ink pads distress inks water pens alcohol based mediums are special ink pads like stazon ranger s archival alcohol marker pens like spectrum noir sharpies and alcohol inks i only know of one acrylic medium acrylic paints stamping with water based medium i tried using normal pigment ink pads and distress ink pads pigment ink pads gave a decent result but distress ink pads were disastrous pigment ink showed very little bleeding though not as crisp as they are on paper stamping with pigment ink pads and acrylic stamps decent result distress ink showed heavy bleeding and it turned out to be a little translucent after drying i could see through to the base slightly stamping with distress ink heavy bleeding stamping with alcohol based medium alcohol based mediums work so much better on acrylics no bleeding crisp images and deep vibrant colours alcohol inks are not absorbed readily by acrylics they really do look vibrant as compared to normal pigment based inks the pic below shows the difference between stazon left and pigment ink pads right the colour seem darker with stazon and detail of the feather crisp all because alcohol does not interact with acrylic even in the slightest stazon vs pigment ink pads stamping with acrylic based mediums having never worked with acrylic paints and stamp together i struggled with it at first i looked on the internet and tried these techniques to stamp acrylic stamping methods 1 simplest way use a make up sponge to apply paint evenly to the stamp okay result probably not as much cover as i wanted 2 spread acrylic paint onto a wet wipe and use it as stamp pad it was okay for the line stamp but gave a barely there look on a solid stamp wasted a lot of acrylic too not happy 3 spread the paint thinly on an acrylic block using a brush and spray with little water and use it as ink pad line stamp was decent but solid stamp came out gloopy too much watery paint on the stamp after these not so good results i tried using my ranger cut n dry foam again and i got so much better results i think it worked because the black side of the foam is not as absorbent as normal sponge it keeps colour on its surface and at the same time does not allow the stamp to get gloopy with all that paint the way acrylic blocks were doing there probably are many more ways to apply paint on to stamp google experiment controlling the amount of paint that goes onto the stamp is the key factor i guess below are my initial attempts at it from halo painted to very little paint stamping with a rubber stamp once i got hang of it i started getting better results look at the detailed butterfly in the pic below stamping with acrylic stamps stamping with acrylics paints is definitely a very flexible approach if you can work with it the colour combinations and the different types available chalk pearl matte shiny makes it such a versatile medium remember to clean your stamps immediately acrylic once dried is difficult to remove get a bowl of soapy water and dip them after use for wooden mounted stamps keep a stack of few wet wipes handy and place them face down on top of the stack afterwards it will keep the paint moist till you can clean it step 3 sealing your work this step might or might not be required for your project i like to seal my mixed media works but i know of several artists who do not seal theirs it might also be dependent on what you intend to use your final product as a wooden tray painted and stamped will need sealing even if you use alcohol based medium they most probably will be water resistant but not alcoholic drink resistant a wall hanging might not need sealing if you don t want it to hang there for long three matte varnishes that i tried for this experiment are acrylic varnish spray varnish and mod podge check the links for more details sealing water based work this is the most difficult type of art work to seal water based work moves easily i tried acrylic varnish first and it moved the ink as soon as the brush touched it with acrylic varnish then i tried modpodge same result as normal acrylic based varnish applied modpodge in the middle with mod podge matte on middle of frame lastly i tried spray varnish sprayed very lightly and the stamped images did not get smudged i tried to rub my brush on the image to see if this varnish will move the water based ink i was expecting it to get messy exactly like the other two but it moved very very slightly with spray varnish ink smudges slightly only when i use the brush if you are interested in chemistry i was so curious to see why this varnish was so good i checked the ingredients and googled them this varnish has about 60 90 alkanes which are hydrocarbons sort of alcohol sibling but are water insoluble so it probably doesnot react with water and i am sure it cannot be used on paper it is going to make paper greasy like your used kitchen tissue paper if you are looking for something that will seal your water based artwork read ingredients check on google if they are alkanes indeed obviously experiment and make sure you read warning labels carefully this one was slightly irritating to the skin when i sprayed it without moving my hands away sealing alcohol and acrylic based work i tried sealing both acrylic and stazon stamped images on the same piece and all three varnishes gave good results nothing moved and they all dried to a good matt finish all varnishes on stazon left and acrylic right top has spray middle has acrylic and bottom has mod podge after all varnishes have dried clear the spray varnish was my favourite again no brush strokes and a very very light coverage though my go to varnish will still be the docrafts acrylic based one for startes it is cheap has more flow than modpodge and works well with acrylic and paper alike if you have anything to add please let me know always happy to learn questions welcome too posted by kishley dolly sapra at 8 05 2015 06 55 00 pm 7 comments thursday 11 june 2015 been ages trying to share my craft work more often from now on last saturday i attended a wonderful uksn craft retreat in oxfordshire early morning start driving 65 kms was well worth it came back home at 9 45 pm loved the workshops and it is always good to learn about new products and techniques besides getting to know how others execute the same task here are two of my favourite projects from that day tissue box holder and tag after this workshop i started looking at all the stuff i now want to buy gilding wax fresco chalk paints new dies and masks guess how much i need to spend this month 75 phew i keep telling me i don t have a costly hobby i have seen people spending crazy money for their hobbies but how can i afford all this and then save some more for my other fashion stuff lol anyways i have joined uksn swapping club too here are my next set of atcs themed wooden all of these have a wooden element to them hope to post more often posted by kishley dolly sapra at 6 11 2015 12 01 00 pm 1 comment tuesday 15 april 2014 melody of my life made these two cards recently using the itsy bitsy musical embossing folder itsy bitsy fancy panels cutting dies entering these into natalie amy challenge 19 embossing thanks for looking posted by kishley dolly sapra at 4 15 2014 10 28 00 am 3 comments tuesday 8 april 2014 some tall cards made a few tall cards recently here they are submitting the above card to kraftzone challenge 4 anything goes with washi n stamps vintage cars have been stamped used 2 washi tapes posted by kishley dolly sapra at 4 08 2014 04 37 00 pm 5 comments tuesday 1 april 2014 just for you cas i am not good in making cas cards at all however i loved this stamp so much that i just couldn t cloud this up with other stuff the stamp has such nice spring feel bird houses butterflies entering this in these two challenges lulupu challenge 28 cas cards bgc 49 grown with love posted by kishley dolly sapra at 4 01 2014 11 53 00 am 11 comments monday 31 march 2014 vintage another one of my fav canvas entering this for lulupu challenge 27 2nd birthday special t thickers texture paste telephone u urban stamps by papermania p pearls permanent marker punchinella as mask c car posted by kishley dolly sapra at 3 31 2014 04 37 00 pm 1 comment wild canvas i am making a lot of canvas boards these days they are not too big about 5 x7 only this is one of my favourites the leaves entering this for lulupu challenge 27 2nd birthday special p paints pp l leaves c circles t thickers tree posted by kishley dolly sapra at 3 31 2014 04 33 00 pm 3 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me kishley dolly sapra kishley किशलय aka dolly which btw is my real name started blogging as kishley and now many people know me as that i am a software developer by profession and a mum to a two year old toddler between work and mommy duties i get only a few moments to craft 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