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 Sponging On
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 Sponging Off
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 Multicolored Sponging
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DESIGNER
FINISHES can be created in an infinite number of
ways using an endless array of tools and methods. The
apparent textures will vary depending on tool selection
and the artist's method of application motions, such as
brushing, rolling, dabbing, pressing, smoothing and/or
wiping. Additional layers and/or colors can always be
used to create different and more complex results. Here
is just a small sample of some of the most commonly used
techniques from which most unique finishes are based.
TERM & DEFINITIONS
Sponging On: Any style of sponge, from
ordinary kitchen sponge to natural sea sponge, is used to
apply paint or glaze to a surface with the deliberate
intention of creating a mottled application leaving gaps
that show the surface's original color.
Sponging Off: Contrary to Sponging On, a
clean sponge is used to remove wet paint or glaze from a
surface, to reveal more subtle variations of color
between the original surface and the new paint/glaze
layer.
Multicolored Sponging: Using either or
both Sponging techniques, multiple colors can be blended
on the surface to create unique effects depending on
color choices.
Ragging On: Identical in technique to
Sponging On with the exception of using rags of any
material, which are bunched or formed into
"rosette" types of patterns, to apply the paint
or glaze to the surface.
Ragging Off: Identical in technique to
Sponging Off with the exception of using clean rags to
remove the paint or glaze from the surface, creating
subtle variations in color.
Granite: With careful color and sponge
selection, multiple layers of paint and glaze can
reproduce the look of granite.
Frottage with Paper: A technique of
pressing large sheets of paper against a newly painted or
glazed surface which will absorb and lift off some of the
color when it is peeled off.
Frottage with Plastic: Identical in
technique to Frottage with Paper with the exception that
the plastic film will not absorb color, but instead will
"push" and manipulate the color into various
degrees of opacity.
Fresco: Various layers of paints and
glazes are manipulated with multiple tools during
carefully timed periods between wet and dryness of the
materials in order to add and remove layers of color to
give the appearance of a weathered fresco.
Marble: With careful color selection,
very soft brushes and tools can blend multiple colors of
paints and glazes to replicate the appearance of marble.
Slate: Similar in method to creating a
Marble finish, this technique uses slightly rougher tools
and different color selections.
Terracotta: With careful color
selection, multiple shades of natural clay colors are
blended together while very wet to create the appearance
of natural terracotta.
Velvet: Initially identical in technique
to creating Granite, using multiple layers of more
closely related colors, this Velvet look was finished by
dabbing (also known as "stippling" or
"pouncing") a paintbrush with a wide area of
flat bristle tips against the surface to breakup and
softly blend the various colors.
Linen: A rough and scratchy paintbrush
is dragged in one direction, through a wet paint or glaze
layer to reveal a fiber like pattern and then repeated in
a perpendicular direction to complete the look of the
weave.
Washed Denim: Indentical to the Linen
finish with the exception of color choices and
"weathering" the surfaces just before it is
completely dry with rags, cheesecloth, and brushes to add
subtle imperfections.
Dragging: As simple as it sounds, this
technique varies as much as the tool choices that can be
dragged through a wet newly painted or glazed surface.
Usually done in one direction to show up the texture of
the tool.
Combing: Identical to Dragging with the
exception of using only firm tools with deliberately
spaced ridges that can be pulled through the wet paint or
glaze to lift up larger amounts color. This is often done
in multiple directions to create more graphic patterns.
Artificial Grass: Carefully chosen
colors are blended together with a paint brush using a
pressing motion that replicates the brush's bushy bristle
print in a pattern resembling grass.
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