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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 33911" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Thanks for the tips. We're about to go out but should be home early evening. I'll have a go with my glass paints then, on my test candle. It would be good to be able to embellish the church candle a little bit more, although I'm running out of drying time, now. Plus, glass paints are translucent, not opaque. For at least some of what I'd like to do, I need good coverage with opacity.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the BHG link, Steph. Those Ceramcoat acrylics look interesting. I don't think I've seen them before, I'll have to go to a larger craft store, I think, and ask. I do know that acrylic model paints or folk art acrylics don't work. At least, not the ones that I have. The glass paints will be worth playing with and I'll have to get some tempera pigments - do you mean REAL tempera, as in, "made using pigment and egg yolk" like medieval artists? I've not tried this but it would be an interesting experiment. I'm sure husband could get his hands on some pigments although I might pass on traditional purple from Murex shells - I believe it stinks and costs a fortune. And I'm not going to try extracting my own - our seashores are protected here, I'd get arrested for harvesting life shellfish. I don't think I'm quite that desperate for a solution yet.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 33911, member: 1991"] Thanks for the tips. We're about to go out but should be home early evening. I'll have a go with my glass paints then, on my test candle. It would be good to be able to embellish the church candle a little bit more, although I'm running out of drying time, now. Plus, glass paints are translucent, not opaque. For at least some of what I'd like to do, I need good coverage with opacity. Thanks for the BHG link, Steph. Those Ceramcoat acrylics look interesting. I don't think I've seen them before, I'll have to go to a larger craft store, I think, and ask. I do know that acrylic model paints or folk art acrylics don't work. At least, not the ones that I have. The glass paints will be worth playing with and I'll have to get some tempera pigments - do you mean REAL tempera, as in, "made using pigment and egg yolk" like medieval artists? I've not tried this but it would be an interesting experiment. I'm sure husband could get his hands on some pigments although I might pass on traditional purple from Murex shells - I believe it stinks and costs a fortune. And I'm not going to try extracting my own - our seashores are protected here, I'd get arrested for harvesting life shellfish. I don't think I'm quite that desperate for a solution yet. Marg [/QUOTE]
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