The modern world is striking: trendy clothing across the season falls into the category "Retro", the last model of the smartphone becomes obsolete faster than we have time to buy it. Therefore, in a kaleidoscope, quickly replacing disposable things, we are increasingly starting to appreciate the vintage items. Curtains, scratches and cracks on old chests look for many more attractive laminate and plastic gloss.
Real antique furniture - expensive pleasure. And for obvious reasons, it becomes less and less. But there are many ways to create pseudo-ended furniture items from quite modern samples.
Effect of crane
Have you drawn attention to the grid of small cracks on the surface of the paintings? These cracks (loss of the integrity of a colorful or varnish layer) are called Collectors - From the French word CRAQUELURE (crack).
Some even believe that the cracks are an integral feature of all the old painting. This is not true. In most cases, crackerels are the result of a violation of the technology of applying the soil, a colorful layer and varnish. Another reason for their appearance - mistakes in mixing paints, because previously artists, unlike us with you, did not have the opportunity to buy ready-made paints in the store "Goods for artists" and made them for themselves. Conference, and the imperfect conditions of "life" of the work also play Your role in the appearance of a grid of time.
Today, the cracks on the colorful coating are not always the headache of the restorers. There are compositions on sale specially designed to obtain the effect of cracking. The grid of decorative cracks can decorate anything - from the box to the cake, creating antines of the antines. Krakle is an addition to decoupage or independent decor.
Collectors and principles of operation
Krakemiekers and manufacturers of crustaceous varnishes and paints distinguish 2 basic types of compositions: one-step and two-having. This classification is not quite correct at closer, because the number of steps (steps) in each version is more. And the abundance of different manufacturers, variations of the chemical composition of products and their characteristics creates confusion.
To be better understood by the difference, I will explain the principle. I will start with a simpler option.
- One-step (single-phase) cracker
Such a coating looks like a cracked paint, through the cracks of which is visible to the first (basic) layer or the base itself - wood, metal, glass, etc., if the base paint is not used. The action of the one-step composition to obtain the krakle effect is based at different speed of drying the first (lacquer) and the second (colorful) coating layer.
First, the object is covered with a layer of basic paint if there is a need. The painted surface is allowed to dry completely. The topical varnish is then applied, the layer must be rather thick. The varnish will dry about 40 minutes (you can speed up the process with a hair dryer), but the drying is made not to the end: the surface should seem dry, but "on the low" to be felt incessia.
The prepared surface is covered with a layer of finishing paint, for example, acrylic. For the convenience of applying, it must be quite liquid, as the surface must be covered by one time.
If you drive a tassel for one place several times, then the paint rolled down, the "stretch" and the bottom layer of varnish will begin. Therefore, it is important to choose the right brush and the degree of degree of paint: it is better to make a small "test polygon" - a separate painting. The consistency of the composition also affects the size of the cracks: what the paint is fat, the cracks thinner.
The direction of the appearance of cracks depends on the movement of the brush: if you paint vertically, the crackerels will also be stretched in the vertical direction, and vice versa. If you do not use a brush, but a roller, the focus of the crack will be more chaotic - like on
The shape and sizes of cracks, the speed of their manifestation also depend on the air temperature during drying. Here you can also use the hairdryer to speed up the process.
- Dual-step (two-phase) cracker
In this case, the cracks are formed not in the paint layer, but in the upper varnish coating. Its special composition contains substances that contribute to uneven drying, tightening the lacquer surface and the formation of cracks.
Decorative crews formed by a two-having crockel lacquer remind of just their prototype - the grid of cracks on the ancient canvases. The sizes of crackers, as in the case of working with single-phase material, depend on the chemical composition and thickness of the varnish layer, the speed of drying, that is, from temperature and humidity.
In this case, you can also try to speed up drying with a hair dryer, but it is better to first try on the sample. Having mastered the technique and selecting the necessary composition, you can achieve neat small cracks, as on old china.
At the second stage, the emerging cracks are rubbed by a pigment - oil paint (artistic), bitumen varnish, pastel, metallized powder. Even cosmetic shadows are suitable as a grout.
Pigment "manifests" the crockel grid. The selection of the grout depends on the composition of the varnish: it is important that the powder adhered only to the cracks and removed from the rest of the surface. For two-step and one-step compositions, the last stage of the same: the surface is covered with ordinary varnish to fix the decorative effect.
How to make crackers do it yourself
The name "double-shaped" (two-component, two-phase) occurred not due to the second stage - grouting with pigments. Initially, two separate components were used to create artificial cracks on the lacquer surface: the varnish itself and the coating itself, tightening the lacquer layer during drying.
For example, it is possible to cover the piece of shellac with an alcohol solution, and as a second component, use a gumiarabic (resin solution of acacia). So fake fakes of famous vintage paintings were performed: not only the artist's work was copied, but also traces of time on the canvas.
The development of the chemical industry made it possible to simplify the process, aligning both components in one bottle, and the name "two-having" remained. Although today, most of the proposed assortment of funds for such a cracker does consist of two parts, including shellac and gumiarabic. And for the one-step there are not only intermediate crochelle varnishes, but also the paint, which is cracking itself, without varnish as the underlying layer.
To create such an effect "under ancient", decorators are used not only specialized products: in the arsenal masters there are remedies. Thus, the effect of the one-step cracker can be obtained using PVA glue using it as a crochelle "lacquer" or mixing with finish paint in proportion 50:50. An ordinary construction varnish is also taken, and not from the range of art stores is cheaper. The fractured surface will also be in the case if the paint is applied on a layer of egg protein, gelatin, gel for washing or washing dishes.
And if the acrylic paint wipes 9% vinegar, it will partially dissolve a colorful coating by creating a kind of microcrack. The choice of funds depends on what effect you want to get.
By the way, Kraklah can be made and not only varnish and paint (although the lacquer will still need, but only as the final coating). This method is a good workout with small motility, because the fracture is created inlaid from the egg shell.
In your power to give a new life to old things, updating them, or, on the contrary, make out of facelight of modern furniture "old".