I went back and dotted in the stars with a silver sharpie.
Note: My best results came with a double clear coat over the original slashes of color, and let it dry overnight before the black top coat (thank you @evansd2 for the suggestion). The colors come out much better this way as you can see from the two signs I made below:
These are for my upstairs Office and Glowforge rooms. The colors on these pop a bit more, but sometimes the muted is nice too.
You also don’t have to go with just black. This one was done with a top coat of grey primer and a light misting of gold metallic. I had intended the green to go behind her eyes but I was a little low. Spray paint is a bit of a guesstimate, but I am okay with that. The non-perfection is way more interesting to me.
What happens if you repaint an existing one that you don’t like? I’d think that would give you similar results to an original canvas since it’s just the top or top couple of layers you’re burning.
This artwork makes me totally regret not ever having formal art classes. I’m a firm believer that the more you learn, the more you can learn; particularly your own creativity…it needs to be developed.
This may actually be the one perfect use for killz, since it’s pretty much bullet proof. However, you do lose a lot of the texture of the canvas at that point. Worth it to recycle and use the repainted ones for the really “out there” experiments.
My art teacher from high school played a joke on the Latin/French teacher. He painted the teacher’s portrait but before doing the portrait layer, he did a white layer with a skull in leaded white. They took it to the local physician’s office and ex-rayed it. Pretty cool having the skull show up underneath.
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