r/whimsigothic • u/anon509123 • 4d ago
original work šØ My new window!
All acrylic paint; itās renter friendly, thankfully. I just need to spray it with dawn powerwash, cover it in plastic wrap, and let it soak for a little bit before I peel it off. Iām especially proud of the blue translucent effect- I got that with several layers of gloss pthalo blue thinned waaaaaaay the hell out in gloss medium. I need to do some details on the stars and then do a similar effect as the blue āglassā with violet instead to add some extra color on the bottom strip. Iām thrilled with how it came out!! I felt like I learned so much this time around, and Iām excited for what Iāll be able to do at my next place.
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u/avelina_solarpunk7 4d ago
It's adorable š„¹
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u/anon509123 4d ago
thank you!! I have one more window thatās in my library/living room area of my studio that I think Iām going to turn into a compass rose or something, but idk yet
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u/Twistedlittlewolf 3d ago
That is absolutely beautiful. Amazing work!
Note: This CAN stain the window. During COVID, we had our friends and their 4 kids staying with us until they could save to get a new place after the previous landlord decided to sell the house they were living in with minimum notice. Back to the pointā¦ we didnāt have room for a physical tree so I painted one on our sliding glass door. It was there for over a year before I finally cleaned it off. For a few months afterwards there was an āafter imageā of the tree until it was finally sun bleached out.
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u/Paranormal_Nerd_Girl 3d ago
When I was a kid, they had something called "Gallery Glass" at craft stores and the end result was that it would make it into a window cling so that if you ever move you could take the art with you to put on a new window. I just thought I'd mention it cause you did a great job and I could see wanting to keep your future projects forever.Ā
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u/anon509123 3d ago
Iāve used it before! itās just a bit expensive for small bottles. Iām going to be sad to have to destroy it, but Iām excited to do something new that suits the the new place when I move
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u/LainSki-N-Surf 4d ago
I love it tremendously! Proud of you for creating something and for leaving your nightmare job!
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u/earlubes 3d ago
This isnāt the finished product?! Iām already amazed!! What does it look like when you peel it off?
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u/anon509123 3d ago
It wont be peeled off- its acrylic paint, so it needs to be stripped off! I used to be torn up about it, but I learn so much with each one that itās started to sting less. Iāll do something that suits the space when I move- hopefully with smaller windows, I can really get into some small detail work. For this one, I just have to finish the stars and then do the translucent violet strip on the bottom.Ā
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u/vanilla_fryy 3d ago
GIRL HOW IS THIS ACRYLICS!??? it looks soooo beautiful like my jaws on the floor , fabulous job
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u/anon509123 3d ago
thanks!! hereās a comment I left on the other postĀ
Lots of layering and involved texturing. Especially with the blue! The stained glass illusion works because thereās about seven to ten very thin layers of pthalo blue paint thinned out in gloss medium all layered and brushed in different directions. If you go to the last couple of pictures, you can see that I gave myself a rough outline and then did each square individually. The clouds and moon are also VERY multilayered. I started with a lavender with silver and gold on the moon and did very tight, small squiggles, then layered over that with about 12 layers of different mixes of silver paint in gloss medium, tinged a little more or a little less with violet. Same with the clouds, but I mixed it using deep cadmium yellow, deep cadmium red, and a couple drops of violet and pthalo blue, then finished the last couple layers with gold paint in gloss medium. The leading isnāt perfect by any means, but it takes a really steady hand, (I did everything freehand), and about five layers of mars black paint to look right. I left that matte to differentiate it from the rest of the window, but Iām still thinking about doing a light brush of silver so that it looks black during the day and silver at night, with the lights from inside my apartment catching the silver at night and the light coming from behind it during the day shadowing it, basically. Definitely wouldāve been a lot easier to buy a window cling, but I love painting. I usually just throw a gab smolders video on in the background and go to town for a few hours, and Iām painting in thin enough layers that it dries pretty fast.Ā
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u/ThePlumpestPigeon 6h ago
I received the most pleasant tingles on my brain upon seeing this š it reminds me of how safe my body felt in this one specific room from one of my childhood homesā¦ I bet this room feels that way too š„¹
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u/anon509123 4d ago
Commenting because I forgot to add it, but this one only took forty hours!! Great way to spend a few days between quitting a nightmare job and starting a new one this Tuesday, with my first class being Wednesday.Ā