Altered paint can instructions

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Hello crafty friends! I'm Einat: creative professional,mixed media artist, scrapbook and paper designer, altering enthusiast and class instructor. Click here to learn more about me and my creative journey Contact me: kessler gmail. Toggle navigation. Inside: what to do with an old dry paint brush and how to easily recycle it to a beautiful art project The one thing I'm very bad at in regards to crafting is cleaning!

Pour the solvent into a container and dip the paint brush into the solvent. Work thinner through the brush bristles, dipping up and down in container several times. Spin the paint brush into a waste area to remove excess thinner and then repeat process with a clean container and clean thinner. For water-based paints - A mixture of warm water and mild soap suds is the best cleaning solution for water-based paints.

Prepare soapy water and pour into a clean container. Dip the paint brush into the mixture, working the soap through the brush bristles. Follow with a clear water rinse. Repeat the process if necessary. Start by dampening a 1" flat brush and blot it well. Apply the gesso evenly all over the pages. Although the photo is too small for you to see, the inside cover has the previous owner's name in it. I wonder what's happened to that person? Just another thing I love about old discarded books.

For some reason, I was directed to my waste basket which was recently filled with shredded paper. So, not one to question why I'm inspired to root through trash, I grab a handful of shreds and I begin to glue them down. After the glue dried, I painted the pages and I ended up with a neat faux leather look. Totally accidental.

I decided to stay with the faux leather look. So I painted stitches on the paper shreds and added shadows around them. I also dry-brushed a bit of paint on top of the strips to create highlights.

I picked out some letters and sayings and glued them into place. So that's how to make altered books I'll have many more examples soon. I think I'll do a pocket page next. Here's how to make pockets in an altered book! I hope you can see how much fun you can have altering books. The sky's the limit! If you need to find PVA glue and the paints I used, just click on the images below. They're links to Amazon. And if you buy from Amazon using this link I will get a few pennies Here's where you can get back to the HOME page.

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A hint: Prime the tins for better pain adhesion. Prime the cleaned and dried tin with a product called Gesso. Its available at Walmart and art and craft stores…. Pingback: links for How do I reuse…? Craftivism Archive.

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