Cut your paper shape out of 80 gram paper, I work out a whole sheet in Illustrator as vectors so they can be sized up or down as required.
Coat the leather hard tile with the base slip, in this case dark green, you need a couple of coats.
When the slip is still wet apply the paper shapes and paint the same base colour over them to fix. Leave to dry off a little.
Then coat with the top colour of slip, in this case white. Apply several coats until you can barely see the papers.
Leave to dry slightly, when the surface is touchable you can take a pin to the paper and hook it off carefully. If this stage is done too late the paper will not lift off cleanly and leave a ragged edge.
Dry tiles under a heavy weight between thick canvas and paper to stop warping.
6 comments:
Wow, that peeling sounds so great, how satisfying?! That's better than peeling dried PVA off of your finger tips! Lucky Kirstie is all I can say. Love the tiles, its that green, it's totally fab. I hope the large ginger jars are also going well... shame they aren't as easy...
The peeling is nice but it is not particularly easy any of it. You have to work so cleanly with everything and the time scale is critical on all the stages. I think the worse part is cutting out the paper pieces they take forever and we are going through so many scalpel blades. Notice the anti-slip safety device I have fitted to the blade so that when your fingers work their way down to the bottom you don’t cut your calluses off! It is a good thing that Kirstie s left handed we can get a bit more life out of one blade because she cute to a different side to me.
Great demo about the paper resist thanks.
Nice and clear and good advice. You'll start an tile decorating craze world wide! Mmmm, we have a hall that we could tile, now that would be a good summer project! Thanks for the inspiration!
Kitty .. .
It's always a delight to drop into your world and peek :-))
Jjjj
Great post- I have played a bit with this before- now I want to do more!
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