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Well, for the first time within the last few years I finished my sister's birthday present before her birthday. *cough*
Last year I did the silver fencing mask (that you can find in my shop) for her, but I started designing on her birthday itself, so no good timing.
I decided to paint the pen holder. It is designed to hold the pens in a comfortable angle and gets some stabilization from the wires (which I find appealing). Painting WSF is a bit like painting on silk, the color soaks through the material fast. This is responsible for those beautiful color changes.
I hope she will like it. She does not use Shapeways, that's why I can tell you :)
Yours, Marie]]>scientist20102013-02-04T17:15:02-00:00Re: Painted Pen Holder
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Glenn
]]>lensman2013-02-05T02:23:58-00:00Re: Painted Pen Holder
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Painting in this style is pretty easy. I just dug out the water colors I used at school (Pelikan, but anything works).
Then I started by tapping wet color on the dry object and made it soak around by adding some water to the edges of the color spot.
Use different colors and let them flow into each other (some human support needed) and your done.
You see, no preparation, fun, relatively fast process.
Of course you have to be careful as water colors are not water proof :) . I looked out for some finishing technique and found CWestbrook's tutorial (http://shpws.me/lmko) on sealing with Polyurethane varnish. I am going to try that.