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Let's try paint resin with Shimmering Matte Acrylics!

Hello everyone! Myry here again with another experiment with Shimmering Matte Acrylics!

In my previous post I used air dry clay, but instead of with a white base (like in my first post "Rococo strawberries"), with a dark base and no primer. This time I'm going to try painting these resin figures.

Painted resin dress figure using shimmering matte acrylic paints
Resin figure using Shimmering Matte Acrylics

If you want to use epoxy resin I recommend mixing it with white pigment. I prefer to use Ceramic powder (my favorite) or Casting resin, by the way. But for this occasion I'm going to use the resin without pigment, all clear!

Clear resin dress before painting with shimmering matte acrylic paints
Clear resin dress

Once dry, it would be good to add a layer of primer or gesso before painting.

Two resin figures painted with blue and pink shimmering matte acrylic paints
Two resin figures painted with shimmering matte acrylic paints

The blue one has no primer: it has needed about 3 layers of color to hide the material.

I used "Sea glass" as a base color, "Peacock blue" for the shadows, and "Halo" mixed with glitter for the ornaments.

resin dress painted with blue shimmering matte acrylic paints
Resin dress form painted with Seaglass shimmering matte acrlic paints

The pink one has primer: a single layer has been enough to hide the material.

I used "Ballet slipper" as a base color, "Coral" for the shadows, and "Halo" mixed with glitter for the ornaments.

Pink resin figure painted with pink shimmering matte acrylic paints
Resin figure painted with ballet slipper and halo shimmering matte acrylic paints

There are notable differences in the finish of each one due to the use/not of primer.

I wanted to take advantage of the fact that one of the figures had a crack to experiment with the Polishing Plasters instead of using gesso, medium or something like that.

Take a look!

Adding white Polishing Plaster to highlight the resin dress form
Adding Dove's Wing Polishing Plaster onto our resin figure

I used "Dove's wing" to  fill the crack. Then I painted over it and I have to say that I'm very impressed with the result!

Finished pink resin dress
Finished resin dress
Finished blue and pink painted dress form using shimmering matte acrylic paints
Finished resin dress form using shimmering matte acrylic paints

To finish, I used "Perfect glaze medium" to give it a glazed/glossy look.


Super cute!

These paints work very well with a wide variety of materials. If you like clay, resin, ceramic figures... you should try them!

Have a good week!


Myry


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