{"id":804,"date":"2015-08-02T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T07:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:09:30","slug":"hand-painted-callie-and-marie-brooches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/hand-painted-callie-and-marie-brooches\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-Painted Callie and Marie Brooches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As promised, here’s my next experiment in laser-cutting + watercolour detailing. I’m really happy with the results!<\/p>\n

Here are some extra pictures to show you the process from idea to finished product.<\/p>\n

As usual, it all starts with a sketch!<\/p>\n

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Once I’m happy with the sketch, I trace over it with vector lines in Illustrator and use these to laser cut my designs. Remember what I said yesterday about priming the MDF and masking it? I do the exact same thing with these!<\/p>\n

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The technique for painting these is also the same as in yesterday’s post! I peel the masking off each area that I want to paint, going from darker colours to lighter ones. I then apply colour in careful washes of watercolour paint.<\/p>\n

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Once they’re done, I apply a gloss varnish over them. This protects the watercolour paint and gives things a nice smooth feel.<\/p>\n

I need to work out a good process for sealing the paint before putting the varnish on, as you can see with the picture below some of the colours bled or faded a bit when I put the varnish on.<\/p>\n

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There’s some variation between each piece – even though they have the same lineart they are each hand painted and finished!<\/p>\n

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Pins on the back so that I can use them as brooches. I’m also testing to see if they are durable enough to use on keyrings.<\/p>\n

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Okay that’s all for today – Stay Fresh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, here’s my next experiment in laser-cutting + watercolour detailing. I’m really happy with the results! Here are some extra pictures to show you the process from idea to finished product. As usual, it all starts with a sketch! Once I’m happy with the sketch, I trace over it with vector lines in Illustrator … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,10],"tags":[190,279,280,278,238,277,281,174,275,282,91],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-804","6":"format-image","7":"category-lasering","8":"category-watercolours","9":"post_tag-blaugust","10":"post_tag-brooch","11":"post_tag-callie","12":"post_tag-inkling","13":"post_tag-laser-cutting","14":"post_tag-made-by-me","15":"post_tag-marie","16":"post_tag-nintendo","17":"post_tag-splatoon","18":"post_tag-squid-sisters","19":"post_tag-watercolour","20":"post_format-post-format-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}