Venus De Milo Marmorizada

One more class with marble! I already taught a marble effect to you right? If you want, search on my YOUTUBE channel that you will find! Brute marble. I taught in a MDF piece, a key holder. And now I will also teach in this piece here which is in plaster. Another option for you! So you can see that it is possible to be done in MDF, plaster… and yet on ceramic and other surfaces! Everything with DAIARA Satin Volume! Daiara Satin Volume, remember? It is the same process, the same thing. But now I have changed the colors! It is a suggestion for you. In this marble effect I will work with these colors here... if you want take note: Soapstone (Steatite) in the back, as a base I will also work with another color the Basalt which is a little gray and also the Hail. Later you can look for this other class about the Brute Marble on MDF. Now pay attention in this one here. A plaster piece and a very well know picture the Venus de Milo. It is a Greek statue, part of a wonderful antique collection. So a very well know piece sculptured in marble. So has everything to do with our work, right? It is inside of our context. So I will clean here and create a brute marble in a color that matches any environment. Because here you are free to create, you can invent. Because the Satin Volume is available on twenty-four different colors very easy to use. Always when I start a piece I like to start it from the bottle. First thing I do is to work down here because the Satin Volume is easy on this. It will incorporate in the plaster surface and will let the piece far more resisting. Exactly! Because the plaster is a very sensible piece, just a little hit and it cracks. It will not happen with Satin Volume! You need to try it. You will need two bottles of Soapstone. The technique here is very simple. First you apply a coating in the entire surface. All of it. As the piece is very dry, the plaster is soft and very dry; it absorbs the water of the Satin Volume quickly and you can even blow dry it. So do it. First apply a coating in the entire piece, making it much textured, spikey. You apply a Soapstone Satin Volume coating in the entire piece, let it drying because the plaster dries very fast by absorbing the quickly the Satin Volume. So instantly you can touch and feel that it is very resistant, you have to try it! After this you will start making the marble streaks. Then again you start to apply the Soapstone Satin Volume taking turns with the Basalt. It is with the Basalt Satin Volume that you will make the marble streaks. So that is it, very easy to understand. First you make the background, right? Right in the plaster, it is not necessary to pass a sealer, not even shellac, nothing! Right in the piece. If you apply any sealer you waterproof the plaster, then there will be no space for the Satin Volume, right? It will not stick well. So apply right on the plaster that it absorbs well, stick and makes it more resistant. It is very nice! Very nice! Imagine how many pieces you can find and increase?! You can make a column like the ones in Greece, it is perfect, original! You swear it is made of marble. And brute marble, because it is not plain, how do we say? Polished, it is not polished. So it is in the stone, enjoying the cut with the streak. Of course I am inventing, right? I am giving you some ideas! That´s why it is called “Criativity without limits”, right? So look here, the second step, which is to make the streaks, you will apply the Soapstone Satin Volume again to wet the surface, and this reinforces the piece and you enter with the other color. The Basalt you will apply only a line, ok? A line! Very thin, you will pull it making the streak, ok? Did you notice that in this case here... I didn´t do straight on its face, right? I don´t want this to be a scar, pay attention! Pay attention not to give the piece a strange look when you are making a human drawing. Then grab a hard bristle brush, smaller… the same bristle as the hard brush, just smaller so you can make the streak line, it is magical! And here you can mix the two colors making it lighter. Look, artistically, hum? Don´t forget it! And simultaneously you apply the Hail Satin Volume, remember? Did you watch the other lesson? You didn´t? Take a look, you will like it! Then I make a contrast in here with the Hail, which is white. In the same way, but here I like to use an angled brush, because the white is more subtle, more delicate, then we have a contrast. All of this is very interesting, because when you make two pieces they turn out to be different, this is impressing. Then open up the streaks according to your taste. Loosing up your creativity and imagination. After you finish all the streaks, make the cracks, that´s right. Use a thin brush. And the black PVA paint. Diluted in water. Then pull the cracks, highlighting the streaks. Look, here you can see the white, the Hail, and here you see the Basalt. Two colors of Satin Volume, on top of the Soapstone. Detail by detail, look how rich it gets. You can make the streaks according to your taste. If you don´t like you can remove it by applying the base Satin Volume again, which is the Soapstone one. Look how beautiful it gets! Ah, an important detail: don´t put many streaks, don´t make many, and it will get too rough. Try to make a main streak in the piece cutting in diagonal, you will never make anything in the format of a “X”… try to make in the format of a “Y”, this is the deal. So you can see that there are many “Y’s” look, can you see in this corner? You can see that there is a format here, something very subtle…a little broke… you will observe that there are many “Y’s” there and never an “X”. Not exaggerating. And after you have made all the cracks of the streak, all those little lines that increase the streak, still with the angled brush and the black PVA paint, brush wet in water, you can highlight some details, increase the streaks watering and reinforcing some corners. Something very subtle, right? Of course it goes according to each person’s taste. I like a subtle work without exaggerate. You can work on pieces of plaster, ceramic, and also wood, that you have already seen, right? And after all is done, if you want you can apply a varnish. A matt or bright varnish. It can be a DAIARA matt varnish or the DAIARA shiny acrylic varnish, and then it depends on you. You can also use the Crystal Pastaflex that wax, right? But I prefer like this, brute marble, not shinny! Because the Satin Volume already gives all the protection, you don´t need to do nothing else. See how easy? Easy, isn´t it? So try and let´s get to work. www.youtube.com/iaracapraro Did you visit my blog today? 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