This was my first time making molded impasto and then painting it afterwards

I’d been using sheets of dental wax stacked up and cut out with a hobby knife for a mold to stack paint in, and it’s a lot of work. My friend and fellow artist Kevin suggested using liquid latex for molds and it sounded like a good idea. Sure enough, it worked reasonably well. I put a mug in a plastic raisin lid and poured around it in to the thickness I wanted.

Unfortunately, it dried unevenly with a lot of bubbles at that thickness, and that made the finished product a bit sloppy and uneven, but we’ll call it a happy little accident, as the shape looks a little like crumpled foil. I threw the mold away though and will try again with more thinly poured (and time consuming) layers.

Then, I saw this incredible chrome paint from Culture Hustle. I didn’t think it’d work if I mixed it with acrylic media so I decided to just do my shape in white and paint it chrome at the end. It’s certainly eye catching, and the mold did peel away quite easily and I could have re-used it if it hadn’t been so deformed.

I did the canvas in another Culture Hustle product, which strangely smells really yummy! They must add some actual smell to it which is cool, because their paint is expensive so they might as well make it as appealing as possible.

Doing paint right out of the bottle has a lot of advantages. It’s easy to fix mistakes later without having to store a bunch of weird colors in Tupperware that I’d otherwise probably not ever use.