March 26, 2013

Tutorial Tuesday – Textures with Spackling Paste!

Good evening!

Tonight, for Tutorial Tuesday I thought I would share one of my favorite texture techniques, and that is texturizing with spackling paste! I know, that may sound crazy, but hear me out!! 🙂

What you will need for tonight’s project is:

Some spackling paste from your local hardware store.

Various stencils. I have a bunch of different styles that I enjoy using! 🙂

Various random tools for marking up AKA texturing the spackling paste.

You will need a palette knife, as you can see I have many different sizes, styles that I can choose from.

Some acrylic paint. I used some inexpensive craft paints for this, but you could use high pigmented paints such as Golden’s fluid acrylic, or other tube paste. Either would work just great!

and finally, you will need some acrylic gel medium, or Mod Podge will do too!

For this sample project, I started with an inexpensive plaque that I picked up at my local craft store for a dollar. I painted a solid color – any color will work!

I used sequin waste for my texture on this project. Position the sequin waste at the top of the plaque. Note: I had covered the holes of the plaque with painters tape before I started, so I would not fill the holes with the spackling paste.

Place a dollop of the spackling paste out onto your work surface – mine just happens to be freezer paper for easy cleanup.

Using a palette knife, spread some of the spackling paste over the top of the sequin waste.

To create a gradual gradient design, I decided to add yellow acrylic craft paint to my spackling paste.

Mix thoroughly.

Reposition sequins waste to cover the middle section of the plaque.

Apply the now yellow spackling paste, making sure to blend in with the overlapping white.

Do the same thing again, but this time adding orange acrylic craft paint to your yellow spackling paste.

Mix thoroughly.

Reposition sequin waste to cover the lower portion of the plaque.

and remove sequin waste.

Remove the painters tape that was covering the holes – do not worry about the areas that have no spackling compound. When I knot the ribbons that will be used to hang this plaque, those blank areas will be hidden! 🙂

Cover the whole thing with the acrylic gel medium, or Mod Podge, to seal it and there you have it. Isn’t that easy?? And really economical too!

Can you see a theme in all of my art tutorials??? Let’s just say mama doesn’t have a lot of patience!! 😉

Here are a few other examples of how I have used this technique in the past:

This is white spackling compound used over one stencil.

Here is the spackling paste, turned blue, over a painted and torn paper background (another one of my favorite techniques!)!

And finally, here is a project where I basically frosted the plaque with white spackling paste, and drew in the still wet paste. Once it was completely dry, I painted blue over the top of it, and wiped the excess off with a paper towel, leaving more paint in the recesses.

This “create” was created using the tip of a butter knife, the stripes were made using the tines of a fork.

Here are more of those fork tine lines, and the swirls were created with the blunt end of a skewer! 🙂

There you have it! I hope this inspires you to go to your local hardware store and give this simple, but fun technique a try!! Please make sure to share your results with me, I would LOVE to see how you put your own spin on this fun technique!!

Here is to a FABULOUSLY ARTSY evening! 😉