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Wow! This stuff wrocks! 
I bought some Delta Ceramcoat Pearls and Gleams to see what they do. If you haven't tried this stuff, spend a dollar and check it out! Is totally awsome!!
Mind you, this stuff doesn' go on very well. It's rather thin. But not to mind, 'cause the shine from this stuf makes it hard to see color anyway.
Has anybody got some cool techniques for this stuff? I'm gonna try laying it over the same color in regular acrylic. Maybe even analogous color, and even complementary color too. If you have any good tips on using this stuff, share 'em, eh?
One thing I tried: I bought some lace trim at a fabric store. On a test piece, I painted the copper gleam. IT WORKS! The lace stays flexible, and it coats well (better'n plain paper). This particular lace has a flower in it, so I tried painting a gold metalic on the flower, so that the gold would be surrounded by the copper. WOW! This really is awesome! It doesn't look so good applied to a piece painted with pearl, but it will look really good glued onto a piece painted in regular acrylic.
I LOVE PAPER MACHE! There's so much you can do! 
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Hi Len,
I had a quick look on google but couldnt see a UK supplier for this. It may be that it is available here but under a different name. I am glad it is working for you.
On a bit of a break from pm at the moment and am working on my other favourite pasttime, making hand puppets from scrap material. Fingers are rather less gluey but covered in plasters from where I keep sticking myself with the pins.
Looking forward to seeing the flower and butterfly 'garden'.
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Fingers are rather less gluey but covered in plasters from where I keep sticking myself with the pins.
Ow! :shock:
I'm on break too. I took the day off yesterday and only played with my paints. I'm gonna do the same today. I need more no-stress-days!
What are these puppets made out of? Do they have pm heads? Are they simple or fancy or somewhere in between?
I'd like to learn to sew, but a sewing machine is too pricey for me. I go ga-ga over the different prints in the fabric store. Some are really pretty! And you can use fabric in PM too, instead of finishing with paint. I may try that eventually.
I'm making two different butterflies. One is for the swarm of color for the living room. That one is painted and then silkscreened. The other is a color print from the computer. You just glue this onto a thick paper, then glue a short stick onto it. It goes behind little girls' ears. I've already made a couple of these 'stick butterflies', and gave 'em to some 9 and 10 year old girls. They were delighted! That's the best part about any craft -- seeing the look on people's faces when you give 'em one! Yeah! This is fun!
Oh well.... I gotta get busy at being not busy! I'm gonna try more experiments with these pearl paints today, get my rent paid, and get some groceries (ack! What a waste! All that money could be spent on PM supplies! )
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The butterflies sound lovely.
Puppets are a big passion recently re-discovered. I have made a number of PM style ones and am experimenting with different ways of making marionettes using paper forms.
However I also like the fabric and foam type. I do a lot of scouring charity shops for fabric and old clothes that can be cut up. I was in our local shop the other day and found a fantastic velvet leopard skin print shirt for a £1.
This is on it's way to becoming a hand puppet Leopard; the challenge is the same as my PM work and I aim for as much recycled stuff as I can. So far he has a PM nose, two medicine spoon bowls for eyes and is stuffed with cut up rags.
I'll e-mail you a picture when he is finished. I tend to make them for the kids and plan to use this one with John's class to do a show version of How the Leopard Got His Spots.
You may like to know that I recently broke my sewing machine (trying to fix it :oops: ) so I sew by hand.
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Doh! Sewing by hand would make me crazy. I have very little finger dexterity (maybe that's slownig me down).
I love the cat! the picture is awesome! You oughta put that in your gallery, even though it's not pm.
I learned a bit today about the pearls and gleams. Here's what I've learnt:
Erm.. back up a bit. Here's what I have to work with:
1 bottle Aqua Green pearl (near cyan, but on the green side)
1 bottle Bobby Blue pearl (definately blue, about as bright as half way up the gray scale if it were black and white)
1 tube Aquamarine blue (deep, dark)
1 tube Emerald green (deep, dark)
1 bottle Copper Gleen
1 bottle Metalic Gold (creamacoat's "Splendid Gold")
1 tube Titanium White
Okay, NOW here's what I learned:
Layering:
Layering a pearl over primarily the same color regular acrylic works, but don't use a wide disparity in value. In other words, lighten the same color undercoat to about the value as your overcoat for best results.
Layering green over blue or vice versa, works to some extent, but tis better to mix the two.
Metallics, Pearls, and Gleams don't coat well. There is isufficient pigment in these. Allow them to dry a little, mixing them as they thicken for even drying of your puddle. You'll know when it's stiff enough that it will cover completely.
Fun with Metallics (copper and gold):
You can mix these into your primary colors!
Copper + straight emerald gives a brown similar to umber, but it sparkles! Mix in just a little black, and you have a burnt umber that sparkles!
Gold + straight emerald produce a brown similar to Sienna that sparkles.
Mix in just a little black to get burnt!
Gold + copper + emerald produce another brown that's undescribable, but very pretty.
Copper + Gold makes a bevy of beauties! Mix these in ratios to your heart's desires!
Gold + light blue (3/4 way up the gray scale) produces an antique gold! IT IS STUNNING! You just gotta try this. I mean... you gotta!!
Gold or Copper mixed with straight Aquamarine is just plain ugly. I could get nothing accpetable except the gold+ light blue.
One last thing I learned: My skill with a paintbrush is not very good. I need to practice! :shock:
I imagine that both the gold and copper will work extremely well with reds, oranges, and yellows. Tha's pretty much a no brainer, so I didn't go there.
So, that's about all I have to share. In a nutshell,
1`mix gleans with adjacent colors
2. layering same color pearls works, but still is better mixed.
3. gold plus copper in any ratio is superb
4. allow pearls, gleans, and metallics to dry a little for better coverage
5. Gold/Copper with dark green works, but Gold/Copper with deep blue doesn't
6. gold + light blue just simply wrocks!
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