What's Your Color Score?

Here's a fun test to tell how well your eyes see color.  I scored a lousy 27.  But after I got categorized by age and gender, I felt much better about my score.

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Valerie Keane Amazes Me

Now and then, when a customer repeatedly purchases a product, I get curious about what they are creating.  At least this was the case with Valerie Keane who emailed me recently for a rather large quantity of my preferred decoupage finish.  But, when Valerie sent the image that you see above, my first response was to email back..."are you certain that you sent a pic of the backside of the plate???"

Yes, all my favorite clipettes, what you are viewing there is the side of Valerie's plate that faces the wall!

It's very sweet of Valerie to give our varnish the tiniest, wee bit of credit for it's little contribution to the backside of her plate.  But really...

Speechless.

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Avoiding Lumps and Bumps Under Glass

Anonymous asked: "Howdy.......how can I avoid lumps and bumps from the paper bunching up around curves under glass?"

Armed with a little knowledge about glue under glass, suddenly we are talking about how to make paper (which is flat) mold itself to a glass under-surface that is NOT flat.

 

Darts.

Yes, darts.  If  you're making anything with fabric that needs to shape around a curved mother-in-law, you never think twice unless, of course, you think twice about how many darts you are going to have to cut to create the garment to fit the creature.

Paper is just a bit more tensile that fabric.  So, cut darts where you need them.  Hide them miraculously along the lines of leaves or a flower petal or some other line in your artwork that will overlap whatever is next to it.

And, use a little extra glue.  It helps fill in the space between the curved glass and the flat paper.

You can also deal with the "overlaps" by simply cutting and using smaller pieces of artwork as in this project demonstration by Kjara.

That Was Easy

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