Silicone Paint Blades (Pack of 2) by IOD – Iron Orchid Designs
IOD Silicone Paint Blades (Pack of 2) by by Iron Orchid Designs. Box includes 2 Silicone Paint Blades – a 3″ roller and 5″ Silicone Paint Blades. Here she is – the tool you’ve all been waiting for! Introducing the IOD Pack of Two Silicone Paint Blades – a must-have for any trowel painting technique. It’s just like adding buttercream frosting to a cake. Smooth and delicious texture – without the calories! Yum The IOD Silicone Paint Blade is a brand new DIY decor tool for applying paint, blending, and creating texture. You can use it for troweling techniques with paint (that’s our favorite!) as well as with texture mediums for raised stenciling. When you use the IOD Silicone Paint Blade, you use less paint than with a paintbrush and can easily save any unused paint by scraping if off the blade and back into the container.
- “Thin for the win” first coat
- Blade angle and pressure control the thickness of your paint
- Adding texture
- Adding color
The paint blade is fabulous for any flat or curved surface. And it will save you time and paint when working on porous materials, such as upcycled cabinet doors, plywood, and other unfinshed woods.
“THIN FOR THE WIN” BASE COAT. Think about the first coat you apply with the blade as almost like a Gesso or a primer. A thin coat engages differently with your surface than a thick coat. Your thick coat is more likely to shrink crack and not bond, whereas that thin coat is laying your base. It’s a foundation to build on.
ANGLE THE TROWEL. The angle and the pressure on your trowel will determine the thickness that you achieve and whether you are adding or removing paint. An upright angle, where the trowel is almost a 90-degree angle, will remove paint from the surface. If you lay the trowel down to a low angle, 45 degrees or so, and have less pressure, you’ll lay more paint down. Play with the angle and pressure on the blade to get a feel for it.
Once the thin base coat is on and dry. Check it for any big chunks, lumps, or ridges. It happens and is no big deal. Just give them a quick rub with fine-grit sandpaper to knock them down, then wipe the dust off with a damp shop cloth. You want this first coat to be buttery smooth.
ADDING TEXTURE. When working with paint, you can use the IOD Silicone Paint Blade to add texture in two different steps.
First, you can add texture as part of your base layer. This is when you can play with different stroke movements to get different looks. You can use long, even strokes in the same direction, cross-hatch where you make a little ‘x’ for an Old World plaster feel, swirls to create a feeling of movement or perpendicular strokes for a more industrial vibe.
Watch us experiment with different base layer textures while we were developing the final IOD Silicone Paint Blade.
TIPS FOR USING THE IOD SILICONE PAINT BLADE. If you need a lot of ‘open time’ (time that the paint is wet and workable) go on thick with a second coat. This would be the case if you’re trying a stamp impressed technique. If you find the paint is drying quicker than you can stamp, use a water mister to reactivate the paint a bit and keep it moist.
If you’re creating texture with stamp impressions, pick colors that contrast in some way. Mix warm and cool colors or a neutral base with a bright or dramatic pop color, or dark and light versions of the same color.
The beauty of this it’s not rocket science! This is just fun and very forgiving. You get in there and you play, get adventurous, push your limits and learn new things.
IT’S YOUR TURN TO PLAY! Pay attention to that thin first coat and how it behaves as a primer and a bonding ground. Focus on controlling your paint thickness using the pressure and the angle of your blade. Look at the color movement and how you get the colors to engage differently depending on how you’re moving that blade over it.
Common trowels, such as a putty knife, are rigid and have very little (or no) flex. This means they retain their shape regardless of the texture of the surface you are working on.
Unlike a rigid trowel, the IOD Silicone Paint Blade engages with your topographical surface. When you press down, it flexes and changes shape to fill in the high and low points.
Josie explains this in detail in the short clip below.
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One of our more popular books not written by Ning Yeh. The book was out of print for a time but has been reprinted. Features both spontaneous and fineline style in both color and ink only. Designed to build a firm understanding of the fundamental methods for rendering the Orchid. Artist Chow Su-sing teaches in a step-by-step, illustrative manner, detailing traditional painting techniques.
63 pages, Chinese/English Designed to build a firm understanding of the fundamental methods for rendering the Orchid. Artist Chow Su-sing teaches in a step-by-step, illustrative manner, detailing traditional painting techniques. About 1/3 of the book focuses on spontaneous style ink compositions. Another 1/3 of the book focuses on fineline outline and color fill techniques Another 1/3 of the book returns to spontaneous style incorporating color.
The Kew Book of Painting Orchids in Watercolour
Paint inspiring, luminous orchids in watercolour using this practical, contemporary guide from respected artist Vivienne Cawson.
Author: Vivienne Cawson. 128pp. Over 80 colour paintings. 281 x 216mm. Paperback ISBN 9781782216513. Search Press in association with Kew Publishing, 2020.
Paint inspiring, luminous orchids in watercolour using this practical, contemporary guide from respected artist Vivienne Cawson, published by Search Press in association with Kew.
Vivienne Cawson’s luminous painting style and considered use of flat or patterned backgrounds gives her work a contemporary, beautiful feel all of its own and this stunning book teaches you how to paint a selection of orchids in watercolour.
The book contains a thorough techniques section that guides you through Vivienne’s decision-making, colour-matching and painting process. It teaches you how to capture form with speed and confidence, practise painting different leaves, flowers, and roots and create different textures with paint. The book contains exercises that will hone your skills and encourage your artistic intuition, followed by three complete step-by-step projects that feature a range of flowers in wild and still-life settings. The paintings feature touches of watercolour pencil and crayon, along with panels of gouache, which complement the delicate watercolours.
Inspired by Kew’s orchid collection and interspersed with images from the Kew archives, this book showcases the rich variety and beauty of this much-loved family of flowers.
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