In this blog I used:
Ultra Soft 3D Texture Medium
I love 3D texture on reborn babies. It’s so real when you can feel the texture of the eyebrow hairs and bumps on her skin and tongue. Any time I want to ad dimension to my baby 3D Texture Medium Ultra Soft made it possible.
The only problem I had to deal with was the paste-like consistency of the product. It reminded me of kindergarten when I had to use paste, that was thick and chunky, to hold our craft projects together. It accomplished the job but it was a pain to work with. I decided that there had to be a better way to make texture medium that didn’t cause flashbacks to my earliest school days.
I thought about just thinning out the texture medium with odorless thinner. That just ended up reducing the 3D effect of the texture medium. It also made it stick to the brush like jello - hmmm. Have you ever tried painting delicate thin lines with jello? You guessed it, it doesn’t work very well. You can see in the photo how the odorless thinner made the texture medium real lumpy on the brush.
I said to myself, “There’s got to be a better way!” One of the advantages of having my own paint company is that I get to mix all kinds of neat things together just to see what happens. Well I played around for the better part of a day until I came up with something that seemed to do the trick. Imagine what conditioner does for your hair. It makes it soft and tangle free. Well that’s what I did with the 3D Texture Medium. No I didn’t add hair conditioner to it, silly, but I did add a special new ingredient that conditioned it to be ultra soft and still very 3-dimensional. You can see in this photo the paste consistency is gone and the ultra softness has arrived. I tried it on my own vinyl babies and just loved the way it worked.
The biggest trick in getting good 3D detail is to be able to paint well formed delicate lines. You can see from this picture how smoothly the 3D Texture Medium Ultra Soft goes on the brush. It’s so smooth on this brush tip that you can hardly tell it’s even there.
I decided to try to show you just how fine a line can be painted with this new Ultra Soft Texture Medium. It’s hard to photograph something that’s clear but with the help of flash photography and a close up lens the eyebrow lines were made visible to the camera. You can see from this picture how smooth and straight these 3D eyebrow texture lines are on this sample piece of vinyl. You get the best results by applying two layers. Bake the first layer at 265 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 minutes. Then apply the second layer for the final 3D effect and bake again. Two layers of eyebrow detail will create a very smooth and well defined 3D feeling.
