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Sandy here with another Friday Findings video for you at my YouTube channel and my blog
KeepsakeCrafts.net.
Today I'm going to show you how to use a product that has fast become a favorite of mine and
that's Christi Friesen's line of Swellegant paints and patinas.
So here are the five metal coating paints that are in Christi's line of products and
I love these because they're not just the look of metal.
There's actual metal in them and that's what gives them the ability to react to the patina
solutions so you're getting a real patina.
It doesn't just look like it.
It's accelerating the process.
So these are the colors they come in: copper, bronze, silver, brass and iron and you can
choose whichever ones you prefer to use and then also there are three patinas.
She has some other products, dye oxides, which I haven't tried yet, but I love the patinas.
There's Tiffany Green, there's Gold Green Verdigris and there's a Darkening and then
you'll notice this Tiffany Green one says Rust.
That's because silver, not matter how long you leave it outside and let it weather, is
not going to turn green.
It just doesn't.
Copper does that, bronze and brass get that green verdigris.
Silver gets darkened and again iron isn't going to turn green.
It rusts instead.
So what you get with these patinas depends on the type of metal you put them on, just
like real metals because these coatings are real metals.
I thought I would just show you real quick how to use these to get a patina.
And here's a sample chart I made showing all the different colors of metals and the three
different patinas and what you get in each one and I found it's very helpful to use as
a reference tool for times when I've wanted a particular look.
So here are a few pieces that I've painted on already a couple coats of the copper metal
coating.
Two coats is usually good.
These are just polymer clay pieces that I stamped with a rubber stamp, baked and then
I've painted them like I said with the copper.
Now it's very important that you keep your metal coating and your patinas separate because
if you cross contaminate all of your copper in your bottle is going to turn patina and
it's not going to paint nicely and your patina is going to have metal in it and again it's
just not going to work properly.
So we keep these separate.
I have two separate brushes and then I also have these two little containers.
I think samples from my local Costco come in them and I grabbed a few that were clean.
So I'm just going to put a little bit of my Tiffany Green Rust patina and on copper it's
going to turn the green.
The important thing to remember when you're doing this is that in order to get a patina,
you have to put the patina on wet paint.
So get your pieces coated and then you're going to add one more layer of your paint
and I'm just going to stipple some of that on.
You can brush it on smooth.
The heavier, the juicier your coat of metal paint, the more of a patina reaction you'll
get and while that's still wet, I'm going to take my other brush and start adding on
the patina and then there's a lot of factors that depend on how much your patina progresses,
how fast it happens, how much you get, the weather, the humidity, all kinds of things
so you just have to be patient and watch it.
So here's a look at our pieces after ten minutes.
This is the one you watched me paint and this is one I thought I would try just putting
a thin coating of the copper on not quite so thick and you can see it's already starting
to develop that nice green patina.
Now if you're happy with it here you can just rinse it under water and stop the reaction
or you can leave it for awhile and see what you get after a little while.
So now here the pieces are after another 20 minutes or a total of 30 minutes and you can
see the patinas progressed even further and again any time you want to stop it, just go
ahead and rinse the pieces under water and that will stop the reaction.
Now another thing you can do to get a bit more realistic look is to actually go over
the high points with a little bit more of the paint you started with.
So I'm just getting a little bit kind of like a dry brush effect.
I'm going to wipe off most of it and then go over the high points again because when
you look at an old copper piece that's been patinaed, generally it's in the recesses that
you see the patina and then you can go over these with other colors.
You can mix the metals.
You can have, you know, a little bit of iron and get some rust color in there.
You can really have a lot of fun with these paints and patinas.
So I hope you'll give them a try.
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