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Monday, November 10, 2008

One Step Crackle Tutorial!

I had a great response with the last tutorial I posted so I thought I would make it a regular thing. This tutorial is about the crackle method I use on some of my pieces. Most crackle mediums are a two step process, but this medium is only one, which makes life much easier.



This is a very easy process, so I hope you will try it out.

Items needed:

Painted Piece (on any substrait)
Dark Brown Stain or Acrylic paint
Damp paper towel
Dark brown or black oil pastel (optional)


Take a generous amount of the crackle and a soft paint brush and brush onto your painting (I even put it over my girlie's face, but you don't have to if you don't want). Remember, don't be stingy with the crackle, put a thick even amount on there...

Next, wait until the Crackle Medium dries (you can use a heat gun to speed up the process). In this picture you can see the cracks but they really don't stand out very well.


Next take about a teaspoon of your dark brown stain or acrylic paint (your choice) and squeeze it onto your pallet. If you are using acrylic paint, mix a little bit of water in the paint to thin it out. I usually take a spray bottle and squeeze it one time and then mix it with my paint brush.


Brush on the paint on in sections and then wipe off with a damp paper towel. Do this until you have stained the whole painting.


Now your cracks are showing...YAY!!


Now because I used dark colors on this piece, the cracks are more subtle, below is another piece I did with lighter colors and the cracks are more prominent.




The last thing I like to do is frame the edges with a dark oil pastel. In this case I used black (again, because the colors I used were so dark. I would normally use dark brown if the background colors are lighter). You color the edges with the oil pastel and then take your finger and blend.



Here is my finished piece after I added some embellishments. I think it looks very Victorian and old. "Christmas Angel" is now in my shop.



You can also see this piece on the Embrace the Face challenge blog. This months theme is Lace.









54 comments:

Unknown said...

What a neat idea! Thanks for sharing the tutorial too!

Hugs!
Sandy

CEDAR JUNCTION said...

*adding Deco Art One Step Crackle to shopping list*

Thanks for the tutorial and showing us your nice work.

Teresa

Becky Hilgendorf said...

Thanks,Shonna,I've been using the two-step crackle,I'm going to get the one you use next....I like the way you did the edges too.Thank-you again for sharing your techniques!This piece is my favorite,I love the colors....
(((HUGS)))
Becky

Leslie Rubio said...

Nice Shonna- I really enjoyed the tutorial on crackling.

Yes, my prints came out well-took awhile to get things centered, but it all worked out! Thanks to your tutorial I knew the size the print should be.

Do you know if you can get the arches paper in 8.5 x 11? I've never seen it anywhere, but end up wasting some paper by having to cut it down to that size.

Glad you stopped by my blog and left me a comment. Please come by again-I will do the same!

Leslie

Linda Vincent said...

Just beautiful Shonna - I love your work.
X

Marilyn said...

That looks great! Thanks for the tutorial--you make it look so easy:)
By the way, all of your 'girlies' are wonderful--I love stopping in to see your latest work!

Jo Wholohan said...

thanks so much for participating xx

Anonymous said...

Now, I know you discovered that I had given you an award before I came here and told you LOL. Oooops!

xx Bee

Anonymous said...

Thanks Shonna for visiting my blog : )
Love your work too! Funny thing is that I was at this art journaling group last week and we started talking about taking the techniques from some of the workshop teachers and where was the line blah, blah, blah. Anyways, your name came up (well she couldn't remember your name) and the whole situation you went through. I was perusing your blog after you commented on mine and saw the whole post you wrote and realized you were her. Small world! It's nice to meet you. You should put one of your tutorials on Gisele's "Birdie Know it All" contest. (There's a link on my blog). Sorry to be so long winded! have a great day, i'll be back : )

Sandra Evertson said...

Fabulous!
Sandra Evertson

nollyposh said...

oh wOw ~thankyou~ for this tutorial xox

Mónica Zúñiga said...

Lovely piece Shonna! I loved it! :)

Moni.

K J D said...

Hi

Love your blog! Your work is great!

Karen

Anonymous said...

Love it. thanks for sharing your secrets..

Lorraine said...

think I will have to add that to my shopping list as well thanks for the excellent tutorial

Diane said...

Thanks for this link, Shonna, and no I've never tried this kind, but I will. I'm going to bookmark this link, and when I do it, I'm going to work along with you so there are no excuses--I just have to find the crackle medium. Sometimes out Michaels doesn't carry everything. Thanks again!!

Trina said...

Thank you! I just bought some of this and couldn't figure out what I needed to do! :D

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