Avon/Vail Colorado - Topo Carvings

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Hey guys! Been awhile since posting here. I wanted to share a carving we made recently, then Melissa went and tried a few different finishings on them.
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Nice job and finishing. Is it Corian with Rustoleum paint?
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I am guessing HDU. These people have mad skills. Very nice. Gene

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More on the finishings please.
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Beautiful job and great finish
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That is awesome Jason! Excellent paint blending. Did you airbrush it?
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Thanks guys! My partner Melissa has been waiting for her new account to be approved here to talk about the finish.
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Beautiful finishes! A couple pics look like Sculpt Nouveau and Patinas applied (Tiffany Green and Vista Rust?)
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Niiiice! I love the Finishes!
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Post by Mobius »

Nicely done. The last two pictures look like Modern Masters metal paints that have been oxidized.
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Thank you for all the compliments! Jason modeled this in Aspire and machined it out of HDU. I then painted by hand with regular waterbase paints that I had laying around.

For those asking about finishing details-

The first photo is just a couple coats of primer on the HDU.

The second one I painted over the primer with satin black acrylic paint. As soon as the paint dried to the touch I wiped the paint off the peeks with hand sanitizer on a rag. I used hand sanitizer because I have a lot of it for cleaning up epoxy and paint.

The third is satin black acrylic paint and to create the "rust" I used orange and burnt sienna acrylic paint that I thinned with water. I very lightly mixing the two so that they wouldn't combine into one color completely to create more depth. I brushed those paints over the whole piece, letting the paint pool up in the creases and wiped off the high points. Once that was dry I thinned out silver paint and lightly dry brushed that on the points and blended with a dry rag where it needed.

The forth I just went over the rust color paint with a thinned light blue and light aqua acrylic paints using the same process that I did with the orange and burnt sienna paints. I could still see some of the silver and I wanted a duller metal look so I didn't add more.

I know there are paint patinas that you can get from places like modern master, but I like to see what I can do with regular paints that I already have. Some were even cheap 99¢ acrylic paint from Walmart!

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Wow! Melissa, I'm really impressed by your hand painting.

Thanks for all the comments and tips.

With 2 or 3 centuries of training, I'm pretty sure I will be able to do something similar.
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Excellent, Melissa! Sometimes we forget that these effects can be achieved without "fancy shmancy" paints. Thank you for the reminder and posting of your technique!
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And thanks for the tip about hand sanitizer for cleaning up (presumably uncured) epoxy!

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