Diy Fine Art Deco Dresser

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Art Deco Dresser

During fine art schoolhouse I paid bills past times working equally a mural painter together with simulated finisher. It was the belatedly 1990s together with simulated marbling together with sponge icon could non live stopped. I specially loved metallic leafing amongst gold, copper, together with silver. Using a uncomplicated Ikea dresser, this projection showcases both the traditional method of leafing together with a novel method I developed to larn crisp leafage motifs every time.
Art Deco, an fine art together with pattern motion that started inwards French Republic later on the Second World War, played amongst geometric shapes, symmetry, together with gold, baby, gold. The motif tin forcefulness out live scaled or multiplied to check whatever dresser, wall, or fifty-fifty a jewelry box. Gold together with metallic leafage industrial plant on many surfaces, fifty-fifty drinking glass together with melamine. Always recall to seal your surface earlier you lot start out therefore the adhesive sizing takes—and to seal it later on to protect your work. I similar to piece of job large foam brushes to apply sealer together with adhesive because these products volition ruin your expensive brushes, together with the larger brush size facilitates the application process.

TIME: iv hours

LEARN: How to apply golden leafing to surfaces using 2 techniques
REMIX: Use these techniques to decorate whatever wood, glass, or newspaper item; create a large canvass postage stamp amongst this motif

MATERIALS
Damp cloth
Dresser
Rag
2 foam brushes, each 2" (5cm)
Gold leafage kit amongst 25 sheets of leaf, adhesive sizing, brush, together with sealer
Additional golden leafage sheets
Templates A, B, together with C (click here together with here to download)
Clear contact paper
Craft knife
Cutting mat, cardboard, or chipboard, 20" × 18" (51cm × 45.5 cm) or larger
Masking tape
Tracing paper, 81⁄2" × 11" (21.5cm × 28cm)
Fine signal permanent marker
Scissors (optional)
Flat brush, 1⁄2" (13mm)
Mod Podge, Gloss Finish, xvi oz (473mL)

Instructions, Part 1 (Traditional Method)
We volition piece of job this method to embrace the entire dresser top. It is best to exercise this projection indoors, where zero volition autumn or blow onto the surface equally you lot work.

1. Wipe the dresser build clean amongst a damp rag. Any dust volition forestall the adhesive from working properly.

2. Use a foam brush to apply the adhesive sizing inwards a thin, fifty-fifty coat to the meridian surface of the dresser. Allow it to dry out for at to the lowest degree xx minutes, upwards to ane hour, or until sizing is clear together with tacky. This fourth dimension volition vary depending on your climate. If you lot outset likewise soon, the golden leafage volition tear together with displace amongst the moisture sizing.

3. Wash together with dry out your hands at nowadays earlier applying leafage because oil, sweat, or remainder volition brand the leafage stick to your hands rather than your piece of job surface. Open to a fresh sheet of golden leafage inwards the booklet. Place golden leafage facedown on the adhesive surface. Press gently together with withdraw booklet, leaving alone the golden leaf. Smooth amongst a pocket-sized bristle brush.

4. Repeat pace 3 until surface is covered inwards golden leaf.

5. Place pocket-sized bits of leafage over whatever gaps together with smoothen them amongst the bristle brush. Use a gentle stippling displace to larn into whatever grooves together with and therefore a wiping displace to slough off the extra leaf.

6. Use the 2nd foam brush to apply at to the lowest degree 2 coats of protective sealer, allowing fourth dimension to dry out betwixt coats.

Instructions, Part 2 (Cheater’s Method)
We volition piece of job this method to create the stenciled ornament on the confront of the dresser.

1. Remove adhesive backing from a sheet of contact newspaper together with lay it faceup on a table. Press golden leafage sheets onto contact paper. Once you lot receive got covered the surface amongst golden leaf, pigment on at to the lowest degree 2 layers of sealer amongst a foam brush together with gear upwards to dry out overnight.

2. Place gold-leafed contact paper, plastic side up, on a cutting mat nearly 20" × 18" (51cm × 45.5cm).

3. Trace templates A, B, together with C on tracing newspaper (template C is a mirror epitome of template B—see pages 148–49) together with attach the 3 templates amongst record onto the gold-leafed contact paper. Using a arts and crafts knife, cutting out the 3 shapes. You may desire to piece of job pair of scissors to cutting out the circles.

4. Lay the dresser on the dry reason amongst the drawers facing up. Position the gold-leaf decoupage motif inwards the centre of the meridian drawer amongst contact newspaper side down. Align the direct border of the motif amongst the meridian border of the meridian drawer. Apply pocket-sized pieces of record to secure the principal large motif together with the circles inwards position.

5. Lift upwards portions of the gold-leaf decoupage motif together with coat the dorsum amongst Mod Podge, removing record equally needed. Lay motif dorsum downward together with smoothen amongst your hands. Wipe upwards excess Mod Podge amongst a rag.

6. Using a arts and crafts knife, cutting a centered trouble betwixt the meridian together with middle drawers. Fold over edges together with adhere amongst Mod Podge.

7. Brush Mod Podge on decorated surfaces to seal the leafing.