Adding dimension to paintings creates interesting textures in artwork. I’ve been creating decals for years. I first experimented with them to decorate holiday ornaments. I love to use dimensional paint to create decals that I can use as embellishments. Draw with the paint straight from the bottle or tube onto a release surface. When it’s dry, peel it from the paper and collage it into mixed-media paintings, clothing, handbags and art journals.
Teflon or gallon freezer bag
High Flow, fluid and dimensional paint
Collage Pauge glossy in a fine tip applicator bottle
glitter
trowel palette knife
Draw flower shapes onto plastic freezer bags with dimensional paint and Collage Pauge glossy mixed in a fine tip applicator bottle. While wet, sprinkle glitter over the mediums. Mix fluid pink with molding paste and spread it onto the bag in a flower shape. Set aside to dry.
Squeeze a little fluid acrylic onto the doodled flower and spread it out with a palette knife until it covers the entire flower.
Draw flower designs with two colors of dimensional paint. See example of pink flower on page 112.
Use a palette knife to mix Collage Pauge glossy with fluid acrylic paint. Then apply a thin layer of the mixture over one of the flower doodles.
After the paint is dry, carefully peel them off of the plastic bag and apply them onto the surface of your artwork.