Yeah yeah I know.. I said I was going to do some SMALL touchups and leave it at that after I’d sprayed the glass with Triple Thick… But I couldn’t help myself Just HAD to some more airbrush work!!!
Well I was going to leave it after id done some brush touchups, but when I was working on the area shown in the 1st pic, and after no less than five attempts to trying to match the light blue in waterbased acrylics and getting nowhere fast, I’d had enough and decided to scrape out the old ink and paint this entire area!
You can see in the upper right part of the pic the damaged area I was trying to repair. If id persevered with it I might’ve gotten it right but I thought F**k this im redoing all of this colour!!
The small dots of blue paint on the front of the glass are from me mixing and matching some auto acrylic paint for the airbrush. This type of paint doesn’t seem to dry heaps darker like the waterbased acrylics do. It DOES dry slightly darker but not as waterbased acrylic.
So after I mixed the paint I scraped the glass clean, but not before taking pics of the black detail so I could recreate this later. Another trick I used was to trace this black onto the FRONT of the glass, so as to help with getting it in the right place later. After id scraped and cleaned the glass I drew the black detail in on the back of the glass with a sharpie pen (2nd pic, note also I still had some tidying up to do on some of the paint edges).
I compared my work and trimmed the sharpie ink back by scraping with a scalpel to get the shapes as close as I could to the pic taken earlier, and wiped over with some soft cloth slightly dampened with Windex to remove loose excess ink.
Next I laid the glass flat and masked off the surrounding areas with paper, loaded up the airbrush with the colour I mixed and sprayed on a few coats of paint. I sprayed the first couple of coats REALLY LIGHT so the sharpie ink wouldn’t bleed back through the paint, allowing about five minutes between coats. Not a sign of the sharpie ink bled back through the paint, as you will see in the next pics in the next post.
Notice in the last pic the areas to the left and right have been scraped and cleaned as well. I did this after seeing how well this middle section turned out and deciding to do these bits as well.
