Chuck Stone
06-22-2012, 2:06 PM
I did a mirror piece 18x12 and used rattle can black to fill it in.
There's a lot of very fine detail (it's a woodcut type image) and
the paint didn't seem to flow very well into the engraved areas.
This is pretty old mirror, too .. so I don't want to waste it
I took off the paint with lacquer thinner and the image is still there,
so I checked registration and I'm running the file again to do a cleanup
pass.
Question... what do you use for color fill on mirror if the spray paint isn't
working? Should I try oil paint? Brush on lacquer? Burnish it in? Some
other product?
THe way it came out, it would probably light up from behind just fine, but
the paint didn't seem to give much color when viewed from the front. I can
see the table through the areas that have the mirror removed. (before painting)
There's a lot of very fine detail (it's a woodcut type image) and
the paint didn't seem to flow very well into the engraved areas.
This is pretty old mirror, too .. so I don't want to waste it
I took off the paint with lacquer thinner and the image is still there,
so I checked registration and I'm running the file again to do a cleanup
pass.
Question... what do you use for color fill on mirror if the spray paint isn't
working? Should I try oil paint? Brush on lacquer? Burnish it in? Some
other product?
THe way it came out, it would probably light up from behind just fine, but
the paint didn't seem to give much color when viewed from the front. I can
see the table through the areas that have the mirror removed. (before painting)