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The Second Floor Challenge
So today is our 8th Second Floor Challenge: Embossing Powder
Click here to see what Julie did
Whatever that means to you or however it inspires you. The prompt is simply meant to get you started. The level of challenge you aim for is entirely internal and up to you
Embossing Powder- cool – I love Embossing Powder. I use it in many different ways and I love to try out all kinds of different media as embossing agents. If you have ever been at one of my life workshops you know that ;) You have used all kinds of stuff for it…Acrylic Paints was one of them. So started like this on a small tiny canvas
I spread black gesso over since I know I wanted different colored embossing powders on top of it and I hoped the black gesso would make the colors pop more.
It was like cooking …BAM! some more spicy embossing powder right into the kisser wet gesso.
Next was heating, and I had a suspicion already that this mixture would be a bit dangerous in case of the fumes…and boy was I right…yikes. I bet this is highly unhealthy and recommend almost a mask and a well ventilated area. But still I was pleased with the result.
Time to take it to the second floor – I sprayed it with water based spray paints
and BAM! sprinkled some golden embossing powder over it here and there – off heating again
Loved the results….and then used it right away for a present for a special girl
here is a close up of the Gesso-Embossing
What I learned from this challenge:
- I love the texture and patina aged look the embossing powder with the black gesso created. Actually to tell you the truth it makes me giddy :)
- this is NOT healthy! not something I would teach in a workshop. Black Gesso by Golden already has on their lable that it contains chemicals that are known to cause cancer…and embossing powder is essentially plastic, so melting it together like crazy is obviously a crazy nut case’s idea! I will wear a mask next if I do it again!
- I love that through the combination of those two media the heat resulted extra dimension stayed once it was dried. Pretty pretty cool.
- If you reheat colored gesso again and put the heat too long on it, it can loose its color at parts and gets white spots. Which in this case was cool! But something to keep in mind.
- I liked working on a smaller surface for this technique – first it was out of economic reasons as to not waste a huge amount of embossing powder if that technique would not work, but then it also was fun to incorporate this in a bigger project using different techniques then again.
If you’d like to leave a link showing off what you did in response to this challenge, here’s the linky list:
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Nat
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