Winterwood
Just a fly-by at the end of a long day of obsessive project-detail-absorption, to share my new wall painting idea.
A few weeks ago I was testing a pastel color-meshing technique. It wasn't quite right, and two things caused me to change direction. First, a couple of people commented that the finish would look better with some metallic silver in it. And second, I'm getting new walls! Color-meshing is great for disguising damaged old walls, and I don't really need to do that now.
Silver metallic paint tends to read as gray, so I started playing with pearl powder. Then I thought, ooh, how about stencils?
I discovered Cutting Edge Stencils and fell in love with one called Birch Forest.
Here's my initial--and, I think, final--experiment.
What you're seeing is flat, pure-white acrylic wall paint making up the birch bark, with interference blue pearl powder stenciled on as the background. The interference blue, curiously, looks like a mild-mannered beige in indirect light, but direct light changes it completely.
Here it is in natural late-day light:
And here's what happens in direct LED light:
I can't see much point in looking further. This is exactly the kind of mood I want the room to have. My Ice Palace.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.
A few weeks ago I was testing a pastel color-meshing technique. It wasn't quite right, and two things caused me to change direction. First, a couple of people commented that the finish would look better with some metallic silver in it. And second, I'm getting new walls! Color-meshing is great for disguising damaged old walls, and I don't really need to do that now.
Silver metallic paint tends to read as gray, so I started playing with pearl powder. Then I thought, ooh, how about stencils?
I discovered Cutting Edge Stencils and fell in love with one called Birch Forest.
Here's my initial--and, I think, final--experiment.
What you're seeing is flat, pure-white acrylic wall paint making up the birch bark, with interference blue pearl powder stenciled on as the background. The interference blue, curiously, looks like a mild-mannered beige in indirect light, but direct light changes it completely.
Here it is in natural late-day light:
And here's what happens in direct LED light:
I can't see much point in looking further. This is exactly the kind of mood I want the room to have. My Ice Palace.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.