How do I get perfect dots.....

[gillyg]

I make wooden plaques etc and I am keen to have some spotty ones - have tried using a cotton bud the spotty aren't uniform - can anyone tell me how I get a perfect dot of paint on wood.

Thanks

Gillian

[kazzells]

Hi Gilly

I use an embossing tool( THE THINGS YOU USE TO EMBOSS PAPER) If you not sure what I mean then just google embossing tool and you will see what i mean. It always works for me. hope it helps


kazx

[itsamistry]

You could try stencils they work for me.

[gillyg]

Thanks

Do you know I think I have an ebossing tool somewhere - off to have a hunt - what do you amke your stencils from?

Thanks

G

[verityjq]

Hi!

I make the same kind of thing and depending on this size of the dot , cocktail sticks can be quite useful.

Try it , it does work for me

If you find anything else that works , please let me know because i go through loads of them !!


Good Luck
:)

[Stampinupgirl]

How big did you need the dots? you could always use a rubber stamp.

Stampin up do a dotty background stamp that is quite large, you could brayer some paint onto it, then stamp onto the wood.

[Elin]

The rubber on the end of a pencil makes a good uniform dot.

[somerset artist]

The rubber on the end of a pecil idea sounds good to me, another method could be to use different diameter dowel.

One method that I used some years ago when I needed perfect spots for a painting entitled 'yellow polka dot bikini' was to use round stickers (labels) these come in various sizes from quite small - 3mm - up to 1 inch. I painted my stickers with acrylic first and when dry just peeled and stuck to the painting. The whole thing was then given a coat of varnish. The plus side of this method is the cost, 99p for a couple of hundred - depending upon the size - of perfectly round dots!

Andrew

[gillyg]

Thanks like the sound of the stickers - once they were painted over did they look like stickers or as though you had painted them yourself?

Thanks

[itsamistry]

Thanks

Do you know I think I have an ebossing tool somewhere - off to have a hunt - what do you amke your stencils from?

Thanks

G


I bought a set from the art shop - I use them for my artwork. You could try different sizes of punches in copy paper I've done that before and it has worked well.

[somerset artist]

Once on the painting, the stickers looked like perfectly round areas of paint. Obviously the stickers have a slight 'thickness' to them, but until you actually got right up to the artwork it wasn't obvious what they were. Any disadvantage of them being slightly proud of the painted surface was easily outweighed by the fact that they were uniform in size and looked a lot better then if I had tried to paint perfect circles of colour.

Using stickers also saved a lot of time :) which is always a good thing!

[gillyg]

Thanks for the reply - bought my stickers today ( couldn't find really small one's) going to paint them tomorrow to try them out.

Thanks

Gillian