Decorate your backgrounds with Polishing Plasters!! (part 3)
Hey everyone, it's Myry back again!
Well, well, well. I finally finished this baby album! I hope you found the simple tips I gave you in my previous posts (part 1 and part 2) on how to make or decorate backgrounds with Polishing Plasters useful.
I want to try to show in more detail how the plaster looks once it has dried for a few days, and the album in general so the flip through:
The truth is that this post is not a tutorial per se, but an overview of the entire album. I just want to share a few more tips and final thoughts about this amazing product.
Things I really liked:
It's a fairly creamy paste and at the same time somewhat "gritty" (I don't know how to describe it better), and it's not that it has lumps... Second try, it's not completely fluid, it's a bit heavy, so there's no risk of it spilling when you're working with the spatula, for example. It also adapts very well to the stencil, you can go over it with no problem and it's easy to correct.
The colours or the pigment. Wonderful. I think the pictures samples in the store don't do them justice and it's a shame. For example, I used "Dove's Wing" polishing plaster for this project and it doesn't turn out white at all. It's a beautiful pearly tone, highly recommended. All of them!!!
Very different from gesso, which is more of a primer, although it can also be used as a texture paste if there is no other option. This is a texture paste that does its job perfectly, it already has pigment and also one with a beautiful shine, and you could mix it with Shimmering Matte Acrylics, for example, and create new colors... What more could I ask for?
You can get it on your hands and wash it off without any problem. Great, especially with that pigment! I don't work with gloves so I usually end up with coloured fingers.
Things to keep in mind:
When working on fabric it's necessary to know exactly where you're going to deposit the product because it can stain - after all it is a paint! Because it is a pigmented plaster paste, you cannot remove easily and quickly on fabric. Same on paper, be certain you know where to put it! But mistakes sometimes are your best friend in Mixed Media!
It's not the fastest drying plaster in the world, but it's not the slowest either - i think it is perfect for mixed media. You have to try it.
It can crack depending on how much you use, but you can also fix it with more paste or leave it for additional texture!. Also it's not like I'm very skilled so... xD
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Have a good week!
Myry
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