This week, I watched the Painting a Pear Skill Builder. Here's my finished pear:
There's plenty of room for improvement, but I learned a lot and am happy with my first attempt. And while part of my goal was to improve my painting skills, I had a secondary motivation to do some painting: to test out my new heat gun.
My friends at Wagner sent me the Studio Precision Heat Gun (affiliate link) and I'm happy to say it worked perfectly! There are a lot of places within the video where you have to pause and wait for the paint to dry; instead, I just gave it a quick zap with the heat gun and I was able to move right on. What a time-saver! Here I am in the middle of the project. In retrospect, I should have done a posed photo so that the heat gun wouldn't be blurry, but I'm nothing if not authentic. The heat gun was going as I snapped the photo with my bad hand!
Now that I have a heat gun, I'm sure that I'll come up with all sorts of ways to use it. Although honestly, if I never use it for anything other than speeding up the time it takes paint to dry, it'll still be totally worth it!
Ohhhhhhh that is just beautiful!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteGood job with your painted pear!
ReplyDeleteP/s: I would advise you against using your heat gun to hasten the drying process because acrylic paint does contain toxic chemicals. You do not want to inhale toxic fumes. You can use a hair dryer at cool mode if you really need to hasten the process. But acrylic paint dries fairly quickly.
Good to know - thank you!
DeleteThat looks fantastic! Good job!
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