Beyond Adhesive: Apoxie Sculpt as Mosaic Material with Kelley Knickerbocker
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Mosaic Arts Online presents Kelley Knickerbocker and her online course, "Beyond Adhesive: Apoxie Sculpt as Mosaic Material." Apoxie Sculpt has gained a lot of fame in the mosaic sphere as an adhesive with filati and jewelry, but did you know this two-part epoxy putty (known as Apoxie Sculpt in this course) can also be tinted to any color and used as a mosaic material? Kelley has been innovating a number of fascinating uses for Apoxie Sculpt in mosaic for a while now, and to our delight she’s now brought them together for her exclusive online course for all of you to learn and enjoy.
First out of the gate Kelley walks you through how to color Apoxie Sculpt. She shows us how to use the black, natural and white products with certain paints to produce any color imaginable and then tint (add white) or shade (add black) any color to create its multi-value gradient. (Knowing how to create gradients is particularly useful later in the course when we make Apoxie Sculpt filati; gradient palettes make for much more nuanced and expressive micromosaics!)
From color Kelley moves on to gilding Apoxie Sculpt with metallic paints for brilliant or subtle moldable bling (learn why it’s more effective to gild the metallic paint onto the exterior rather than mixing it into the epoxy putty), then she demonstrates how to edge an entire mosaic with one or multiple colors of Apoxie Sculpt. Yep, you heard right. Apoxie Sculpt becomes as discrete or visible a frame as you wish, and protects your edges from dings and fingerprints. Did we mention you can also form bumps, curls, wrinkles, and divots into your edges, and tuck little surprises in between the mosaic and the Apoxie Sculpt edge and/or between the Apoxie Sculpt edging layers? These steps are where the adhesive, sculptural, and strength properties of Apoxie Sculpt come together!
And speaking of edging, be sure to have a few tesserae handy to practice wrapping individual tesserae (as many layers as you like!) for a bit of color zing or metallic bling anywhere in your mosaic, and get ready to learn how to contour design elements or sections of your mosaic with a line of Apoxie Sculpt for definition, emphasis, or continuity.
Kelley will also demonstrate how to form several elements out of Apoxie Sculpt, using it as you would any other sculptural clay to form rosettes, sticks, rings…let your imagination fly! And finally, you’ll create both round and uniquely-shaped filati in a color/size gradient and set it into black Apoxie Sculpt as a micromosaic.
When you’ve completed this course you’ll understand how to tint and form two-part epoxy putty like a pro; to add either subtle or dramatic color, texture and objects to enliven and protect your mosaics and strengthen/support your designs/compositions.
Click here to watch the free promo video with a sneak peek into the course:
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Wow! 💕
Right?!?! Kelley knocks it out of the park every time. This course is on sale for 10% off until Sunday 8/25 Use coupon code SUMMER2024
Add in a small amount of Green Stuff kneadadite putty and you eliminate a great deal of the brittle property of two part epoxy sculpt.
I wish we could've seen more of Kelly's work close up.
Feel free to check out her whole course at this link, where there are plenty of close ups and loads of information. mosaicartsonline.com/p/beyond-adhesive-apoxie-sculpt-as-mosaic-material-with-kelley-knickerbocker
Wish I could afford it. Still in a pandemic and money only goes to essentials. Maybe if it’s still available after this is all over
Hi, thanks for the video! After watching it I purchased something called Epoxy Sculpt and I've been using it and although I really enjoy it, it's not getting hard. I've been measuring it out and for some odd reason it's just not curing. I've created a lot of pieces for an upcoming Art Festival and I don't know what to do. Any tips? Thank you! 💖
We would recommend reaching out the company. They have a great tech support for their products!
If you are combining the two parts equally and it isn't curing, you have a defective container of epoxy. I use this stuff all the time and I assure you, that is not typical. I've never had that problem.