Vaseline Peeling Paint Technique

Something I haven't done in a while is to do some more work in my altered book.  Some of you may remember the book I started altering earlier in the year called 'New (Techniques) to You' (Link)  in which I was going to change the pages using different artistic techniques. 

Well, that is what I have done tonight, I've made a luxurious gold, copper and bronzed background using a Peeling Paint technique:

It looks much more impressive in RL, a lovely rich texture.  Journalling is going to be added on top with a white pen.

I followed the directions on how to do the technique here, but because of disorganisation time constraints I ended up having to dry each layer with a heat gun.

This is what I did:

On top of a printed page that had gesso previously painted (& dried) on it, I painted three acrylic metallic colours and then dried it.

When those pages were dry, I added Petroleum Jelly using my finger randomly on the pages.

Black paint was then added and then dried (It resists the Vaseline).

Finally, I wiped the Vaseline away with a paper towel.

The metallic paint has given it a lovely sheen that changes with the light and I like the way you can still faintly see some of the lettering from the original book.   It was fun doing another technique that I haven't tried before too.

Thanks for reading and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave