Day 06 - Painting the Bricks
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Time to paint the bricks!
To begin with, I take a very thin wash of brown iron oxide (acrylic paint, in the bottle), and put one coat of that on each and every individual brick [if you don't know what I mean by a wash or anything else, just send me a PM and I'll post detailed pix so that you can see what I'm doing].
No, she didn't say that, did she? Yes, she did. You have to paint EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL brick. Remember that lil conversation I had with the house when it said it wanted brick? Yep, you have to paint all of them. The brown iron oxide gives them just the right color, and so I do that first, and I paint each and every one of them. Really, it's not so bad. It's actually MUCH easier than painting trim!
Remember what I told you about the "stippling" is basically giving texture to the paperclay? Here's a close up of the bricks, with a coat of the brown iron oxide wash on them, and you can see what I mean by texture. I turned the flash off so that you could see it.
If you happen to get some paint in your mortar lines on some and it looks like you blurred some of your bricks together, don't worry about it. You can re-define those bricks with a different color later.
Now I have to let that dry for at least 24 hours, and then I begin adding some different colors to the bricks!
Compliments of LPCullen
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