Rococo Carousel Shimmering Matte Acrylics
Hey everyone, it's Myry back again! And today we're going to make a mess on the work table.
Yep, mix-mix time!
I'm using a figure made from Plaster of Paris by Cadence. This will be my first time using this paste so I'm very intrigued to see how the wonderful Shimmering Matte Acrylics pigments will work.
I want to make a photo album for a young boy with this paper collection and..... look at these tones. We know some Shimmering Matte Acrylics that would be perfect ^^ In particular, I'm going to try to emulate the colors of the rocking horse.
I've painted the figure with white gesso except for the outer edge (although I'm using my own, you can use the White Gesso from the store). I want to see how it works with and without.
So I'm going to make 3 base mixtures with which I work: ornaments, horse skin and flowers.
1) Ornaments: mix one part of Red wagon plus 3 parts of Rain Slicker until obtaining a coppery orange tone
I'm going to use these two extra fine tip nail painting brushes, one to fill and one to define.
At first I mixed a part of this mix with Sangria but I wasn't quite the right tone and I ended up covering it with another color.
Now I mix another part of this orange with more Rain Slicker until obtaining a more golden tone.
2) Horse skin: mix one part of Halo plus a little bit of Rain Slicker until obtaining a tone similar to the horse hair.
And the stars and the stamens with Rain Slicker. Also, I'm going to recover the third tone from the first mixture to shade the skin. I also used the skin tone to brighten the sign.
Now mix a part of this beige with a little little little bit of Peacock Blue...
and another part with the mix with Beach Sand, just to darken the tone.
I used the blue mix with Peacock Blue for the ornaments, playing with both tones to make shadows and highlights, and this greyish one for the hooves.
3) Flowers: at first I wanted to make a mix with this blue tone but in the end I decided to mix Sangria with Beach Sand.
The tone was super strong so I removed a little with a cloth and I added a little bit of Sea Glass. To paint the leaves we will make two mixtures: the first with Sea Glass and a little Rain Slicker.
And a part of this green with a little bit of the blue tone from the previous mix to darken the tone and be able to make shadows.
I have painted the ribbons and the edge with Peacock Blue. And here we can see the power of the pigment with and without a gesso. The edge has that roughness typical of the paste and the color is a little duller, while the rest of the figure looks smoother and the tone is brighter.
And I'm going to give it some touches of light with Sea Glass.
Finally I have painted with Halo everything that will be the background.
Once dry, I'll give it a layer of Perfect Glaze Medium. The glazed effect it gives is gorgeous!
And before dries I'm going to sprinkle glitter on it.
And this is how it looks! What do you think?
The pigment... how wonderful! They mix very well with each other. Once dry you can cover any mistake with another colour perfectly. If you mix a semi-dry tone with another you can make certain blends without losing both tones. Wonderful, what can I tell you!
Now I have an album to make! Here I say goodbye and have a great week!
Myry
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