The Victorian style known as Rococo utilizes gold metallic paint or gold leaf.
Whether you're painting a craft project or touching up wall embellishments in your Victorian Rococo-style home decor, using a small bottle of enamel model paint can allow you to painstakingly touch up and correct many gold metallic paint flaws. Working with gold metallic paint is sometimes a challenge: paint is uneven or adheres to surrounding paint of another color. Because of the metallic sheen, the paint doesn't blend with other paints and corrections need to be made once the paint is dry if the wet paint cannot be removed immediately.
Instructions
Correcting Paint Flaws On Walls
1. Shake the jar of enamel model paint well before opening it. Enamel model paint is typically sold in 1/4-oz. glass or plastic jars with screw-on lids. Some brands of enamel model paint are Testor, Model Master, Tamiya, and, according to IPMS Stockholm, Europe's oldest model paint brand, Humbrol.
2. Dip the small paintbrush into the paint, taking care to only saturate the top quarter of the bristles. Metallic gold paint is often used as an inexpensive substitute for gold leaf. The Rococo style of Victorian decorating saw the heavy use, according to Genuine Antiquing, of gold leaf and foliate swirls.
3. Use a small paintbrush for correcting gold paint flaws.
Paint over areas requiring a darker layer of gold metallic paint or areas that were missed.
4. Match the areas around the gold paint to cover any that were mispainted. If the gold paint remains visible beneath the touched-up paint, allow paint to dry and then add another layer of paint to cover the gold paint. Repeat until the gold paint is covered.
5. Clean your brush by pouring a capful of enamel paint cleaner onto a paper towel and wiping your brush until it is clean. You can also pour a little enamel paint cleaner into a disposable cup or recyclable jar and dip and swirl the brush in the cleaner until clean, wiping the brush on a paper towel or rag when finished.
Correcting Paint Flaws on Furniture
6. Use enamel paint in place of expensive gold leaf for Victorian furniture painting.
Sand any difficult areas that refuse to take paint. The freshly prepared wood will absorb and hold paint better. Remove the sawdust with a damp paper towel or rag.
7. Follow Steps 1-2.
8. Paint over the sanded areas, or touch up dings, chips, or sections of split wood with the metallic gold enamel model paint. The enamel paint dries with a high sheen eliminating the need to also touch up a clear gloss coat over highly ornate furniture.
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