#texturepaste — Public Fediverse posts

I am seeking a texture/sculpting/modeling paste or compound for my low-relief artwork, akin to this piece of inspirational artwork seen here in post by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh in 1906.

It needs to be a brand available in the US. It needs to have these qualities:

• Water soluble
• Sand-able
• Matte
• Mixed and thinned with water to varying degrees of thickness
• Should not dry with plastic appearance
• White, with capacity to be mixed with color
• Multiple day workability/storage capacity

I am essentially looking for something like traditional gesso, or Plaster of Paris that has a long-term workability. Most large art brands have acrylic versions that dry with an unmistakable plastic artificial quality. I don't want gels or full-body paints. They are too lightweight, and can't be thickened to have the qualities I need.

I need something I can mix with water to behave as a clay when needed, scrape like Cold Wax with a putty knife, hold shape like Butter Cream icing, and self-level like Royal icing when diluted into a slurry.

Recipes for making one's own texture paste dry and cure too fast. I don't know what to add to extend the workability when stored.

I've tried varying amounts of ingredients for recipes combining plaster, joint compound, white glue, acrylic medium retardants, and paints. Workability is often mere hours, with no storage capacity.

Anything out there I don't know about?

#artadvice #Art #IndieArtist #TexturePaste #ModelingPaste #Sculpture #texture

I am seeking a texture/sculpting/modeling paste or compound for my low-relief artwork, akin to this piece of inspirational artwork seen here in post by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh in 1906.

It needs to be a brand available in the US. It needs to have these qualities:

• Water soluble
• Sand-able
• Matte
• Mixed and thinned with water to varying degrees of thickness
• Should not dry with plastic appearance
• White, with capacity to be mixed with color
• Multiple day workability/storage capacity

I am essentially looking for something like traditional gesso, or Plaster of Paris that has a long-term workability. Most large art brands have acrylic versions that dry with an unmistakable plastic artificial quality. I don't want gels or full-body paints. They are too lightweight, and can't be thickened to have the qualities I need.

I need something I can mix with water to behave as a clay when needed, scrape like Cold Wax with a putty knife, hold shape like Butter Cream icing, and self-level like Royal icing when diluted into a slurry.

Recipes for making one's own texture paste dry and cure too fast. I don't know what to add to extend the workability when stored.

I've tried varying amounts of ingredients for recipes combining plaster, joint compound, white glue, acrylic medium retardants, and paints. Workability is often mere hours, with no storage capacity.

Anything out there I don't know about?

#artadvice #Art #IndieArtist #TexturePaste #ModelingPaste #Sculpture #texture