I have to admit I do love a good beer...and thanks to our operations manager here at Splash of Color, I was introduced not only to a great tasting beer, but one with a really cool bottle. So me being me had to do something with that really cool bottle....after I enjoyed the beer of course!
After drinking my delicious beer...I very throughly washed the bottle.
I dried the bottle completely, then painted entire bottle with a coat of thick gesso...for this project I used Studio Gesso by Claudine Helmuth for Ranger. Let first coat dry and Apply second coat.
I let my gesso set for several hours. I find that paint dries to the touch pretty quickly much of the time, but it really needs to cure. I my world it means that I have several projects going on at the same time. After the Gesso has set, its time for the magic of INKA GOLD by VIVA COLOUR. I used a paint brush to apply the INKA. Since there is a lot of texture on this bottle, the paint brush allows me to get into the nooks and crannies with out filling the nooks with inka and loosing detail. I actually ended up putting two coats of Inka on my bottle.
How cool does he look? I should probably mention one more thing. The normal manufacturers suggestion is to buff the inka after it dries to bring the INKA to a high shine, however i kind of liked the warmer look of a brushed metal looking gold.
and yes...I have several more Lucky Beer bottles waiting to be painted. I will show you how i plan to incorporate them into my decor at home.
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Owmy how awesome is that bottle???Now i NEED that gold paint!!
Posted by: fauve | July 13, 2013 at 11:54 PM