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Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com
and today I wanna show you how to use Vintaj Metallic Patinas
They come in four different colors and what you have here is an
aged bronze, antique copper, a Victorian gold,
and a Nouveau silver and I want to do this video just to
be able to show you these wonderful metallic colors. It's sometimes hard
to tell when it's in the bottle
it's great to see them in person. So you're going to use them the same as you
would use
other Vintaj patinas and so here's the antique copper
and I just have a little plastic bag here that I'm putting it on
to keep my work surface clean. That there is the antique copper,
here's the Nouveau silver,
the aged bronze,
and the Victorian gold
so quite a nice range of colors there
and I'm also going to pour out some of my Vintaj glaze
which will work as an extender. It's also help to blend these
together and
like I mentioned before you're just going to use them the same as other Vintaj patinas
I just have a paint brush here
I have a pretty little piece of filigree. I want to
bring out some accents and highlights just so I can have a mixed metal look
I'm going to take a little bit of the glaze
and a little bit of the Victorian gold
I'm just going to paint it on
now by adding the glaze I actually made this a little bit more watery
which is what I wanted. I wanted more of a wash effect. I still see
some of the natural brass color below
and I'm going to pull out the highlights
I'll call that good for right now. I'm going to play with a couple other pieces I
have here. I've combined all four
put the colors together and I can almost like a
fiery flame effect
This is Vintaj arte metal I'm painting on top of
I'm not using a glaze at this point on this particular piece
I'll show you what I'm going to do in a second with it. You've got all those colors
so now I'm just going to take some glaze and at the points where they're joined
I'm just gonna go ahead and blend them in just so there's a little bit more of a washed
effect. Go back
add a little bit more
just have fun with the colors. I'll let
that dry and then I'm actually going to take the Vintaj Relief Block to it
and bring out some of that detail again. Now I wanna go back and you could wash out
your paintbrush between
times or if you don't mind that your mixing the colors a little bit which I
don't mind
just going from one color to the next. I really like the blended effect
so now I'm just going to take a look at the silver
highlight the little flowers
the a little sides as well
You'll get a really fun mixed metal look
I'll call that good. I wanted a few little spots that were the original color
and then with the these I think what I'm going to do is go up
do a little bit of silver at the base
and I'll take a little bit more glaze
just blend it in just so that there's more of a wash effect
up towards the top and it is more concentrated down at the bottom
So I love these pieces. This one I do wanna bring out those
details. I'll let that dry for about 15 minutes and I'll comeback with my
Vintaj relief clock
and pull out the details. So these pieces are now dry
see that they'll make a pretty little earring set on these two that'll
have the silver tips and then for this one I do want to pull out some of that detail
again. So it's been about 15 minutes. It's
dry to the touch. I'm going to take my Vintaj relief
block and very carefully
go over some of the raised details
I'm actually going to go over the sides as well. I little bit of
a rougher look. I just really want that
mixed metal almost like a flame appearance to be very subtle
and by doing the Vintaj relief, it just take some the emphasis
away from the patinaing and it really puts it back
on the piece itself which is what I want. There we go
you can see it has a great aged look. Now one will note I have a little of the
patina coming off right here
and that's just because this wasn't quite dry enough. So just make sure that
you let it fully dry before you start to
use your relief block on it otherwise it might be a little bit peely like that. It's kind of
an in-between stage
but I love the look. It has a nice distressed look to it and it's really interesting with
all those different metallic finishes. So I hope you have fun with the Vintaj
metallic patinas
There's a lot you can do with them and don't be afraid to mix and match in use
several metal colors
on a single piece.
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