The backgrounds of these dominoes were made with the kissing paint technique. The first domino is
all or mostly Luna Lights. The second is all textile paints. The third is Golden Fluid Acrylics, but
you can't see the interference gold in the picture. The fourth is Luna Lights with some Neopaque and
red pearlescent airbrush paint - since Luna Lights and Lumiere do not have any red, and I wanted the
pearlescence. All the stamping was done with Stazon Ultramarine or Black. |
More kissing paint. The first one was stamped with white Brilliance; the others were stamped with
Stazon. See the two yellow eyes of the owls? After stamping, I had to fix up their eyes because they
weren't very well-defined (I used Twinkling H2Os paint to color the eyes) and then add the pupils
back with a Lumocolor pen. I messed up those 2 eyes with the Lumocolor and in the bad light of the
kitchen I didn't realize I used the wrong color of Twinkling H2Os to fix that. I was already
squeezing the Crystal Lacquer on the domino when I noticed the color was wrong. Oops, too late! |
The backgrounds were made with the new Adirondack acrylic paints and the kissing paint technique.
(Can you tell I like that?) Most of the Adirondack acrylic paints are too dark to work well with
black ink. I haven't had a chance to try them as backgrounds and stamping with white ink.
These are travel mahjong tiles and are the same size as the tiles from an old game called Rummy-O.
The game mutated into what is now known as Rummikub, but the tiles for Rummikub are indented on the
back, so they are not very useful for this purpose. They have a nice proportion and they are thin, so
they're more practical for adding to a card. The travel mahjong tiles can be purchased from Sky Blue Pink. I have no affiliation with them; just a
satisfied customer.
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Yet more kissing paint tiles. I couldn't get the scanned color to come out very well on these -
the red looks too dark red and the gold is mostly too light. Oh well. One night I got carried away
and did 68 dominoes and tiles with the kissing paint technique. I only stopped because I ran out of
dominoes! These are travel Mahjong tiles. I won't be keeping all of these, but probably 4 or 5 of
them - I just scanned them all to show the variety that I got with the backgrounds using the same
paints. |
These dominoes were made with the "kissing paint" technique. I wish I knew what
causes the "bubbles" - some developed them, some do not. It might have to do with the
combination of paint and mediums, since most of the paints were thinned with different mediums
(Neopaque flowable extender, Textile colorless extender, various brands of fluid acrylic, and
airbrush medium). The paints here are mostly Jacquard's Textile paint and Lumiere - some of the
silver or dark blue might be Luna Lights. |
The first domino and 2 small ones were done with Fluid Chalk ink. The flower was highlighted with
gel pen. The second domino was stamped with Stazon and colored with Adirondack pens. The last one is
a kissing paint background of textile paints, stamped with Stazon. When I found this stamp at the
store I had to get it because I thought it was hysterical. It's especially good as a fridge magnet
gift for people who have too much fridge magnet poetry! |
These were all made with Clearsnap Fluid Chalk ink. The first 2 and the last one use the ability
of the ink, when stamped over existing ink, to pull up the ink that's already laid down (even though
it was heat-set). Someone told me a name for this technique once, but I can't remember it. The bamboo
with moon was done by covering the domino with Lime Green Fluid Chalk ink and stamping the image with
Prussian Blue Fluid Chalk ink. |
 
These are transfers I did from some photos I scanned. The first one is from a picture of my dad in
college or grad school. The second is of my niece, from an "arty" photo my husband took
recently. In the first one I used MaryJo McGraw's method of overlaying a tiny bit of yellow color
over the picture. They're a little ragged around the edges because they've been rattling around in my
supply case for a couple of months. [Later note] After several months
on my fridge, where it gets bright light but not direct sunlight, the
image of my niece looks faded and discolored. I'll have to get an Epson
printer and try using their Dura-Brite inks. |
These are done with the inkjet transfer technique using Golden Soft Gel Gloss medium. I guess it's
the same as what you can do with a color photocopy (I haven't tried that). In an issue of Somerset
Studio (2004), there is an article about Golden products that says you can't use this with inkjet
pictures, but if you have the right kind of paper, it does work. These
images are all from postage stamps,
because I had previously scanned them for collage. This technique is
amazingly easy once you figure it out, but is almost impossible to
explain! |
