T__T

[fuyu]

So, confronted with the problem of how to make Johnny K. Gambino's bracelets, I hit upon a brilliant solution - cut the basic shape out of cardstock, and then wrap it thickly with gauze to give it mass! That way, it'd be soft and resilient and very easy to wear. Then, I thought, I could simply coat the whole thing in liquid latex, and give it a gold sheen!

Well, the cardstock and gauze worked out, but the latex didn't. Turns out it soaks right into the gauze. The first pair of bracelets had to be set aside.

I'm doing much better on this next pair - it turns out acrylic paint works nicely for smoothing over the surface of the gauze, so I figured I'd just go with that and apply gold paint later. The trouble is, however, that the gauze requires 50 bajillion coats of acrylic paint before it's suitably smooth to apply real color.

I've used almost an entire tube of white acrylic paint and I'm still not done.

So much painting... so very much painting... T_T

Comments

[pyrasaur.livejournal.com]

Gauze is designed to soak up fluid, you might be better off using a mostly-polyester fabric.

[fuyu]

That might have been helpful information two bracelets and a buckle ago. XD

The latex was sort of ill-advised in general, really - the gold-colored powder I used to finish the latex and give it the gold color turns out to make a very dull sort of gold, and I need bright shiny gold. So the acrylic paint's working out better in general.

I'll think of that next time this issue comes up, though. Thanks.

[elanor-pam.livejournal.com]

I think arabig gum varnish is the thing to use when you want to impermeabilize something. I'm not sure if it'd work with gauze, though...

[fuyu]

Gum arabic? Hmmm. I'll have to look into that~