Diy Fine Art Deco Dresser

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Art Deco Dresser

During fine art schoolhouse I paid bills past times working every bit a mural painter together with imitation finisher. It was the belatedly 1990s together with imitation marbling together with sponge paradigm could non live stopped. I particularly loved metallic leafing alongside 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 foliage motifs every time.
Art Deco, an fine art together with pattern motion that started inward French Republic later the Second World War, played alongside geometric shapes, symmetry, together with gold, baby, gold. The motif tin live scaled or multiplied to gibe whatever dresser, wall, or fifty-fifty a jewelry box. Gold together with metallic foliage industrial plant on many surfaces, fifty-fifty drinking glass together with melamine. Always retrieve to seal your surface earlier y'all start out thence the adhesive sizing takes—and to seal it later to protect your work. I similar to purpose 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: four hours

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

MATERIALS
Damp cloth
Dresser
Rag
2 foam brushes, each 2" (5cm)
Gold foliage kit alongside 25 sheets of leaf, adhesive sizing, brush, together with sealer
Additional golden foliage 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 betoken permanent marker
Scissors (optional)
Flat brush, 1⁄2" (13mm)
Mod Podge, Gloss Finish, sixteen oz (473mL)

Instructions, Part 1 (Traditional Method)
We volition purpose this method to embrace the entire dresser top. It is best to practice this projection indoors, where aught volition autumn or blow onto the surface every bit y'all work.

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

2. Use a foam brush to apply the adhesive sizing inward a thin, fifty-fifty coat to the pinnacle surface of the dresser. Allow it to dry out for at to the lowest degree twenty minutes, upwards to i hour, or until sizing is clear together with tacky. This fourth dimension volition vary depending on your climate. If y'all offset every bit good soon, the golden foliage volition tear together with displace alongside the moisture sizing.

3. Wash together with dry out your hands at nowadays earlier applying foliage because oil, sweat, or balance volition brand the foliage stick to your hands rather than your function surface. Open to a fresh sheet of golden foliage inward the booklet. Place golden foliage facedown on the adhesive surface. Press gently together with take away booklet, leaving solely the golden leaf. Smooth alongside a small-scale bristle brush.

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

5. Place small-scale bits of foliage over whatever gaps together with polish them alongside the bristle brush. Use a gentle stippling displace to larn into whatever grooves together with and thence a wiping displace to slough off the extra leaf.

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

Instructions, Part 2 (Cheater’s Method)
We volition purpose this method to create the stenciled ornament on the expression upwards of the dresser.

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

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

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

4. Lay the dresser on the reason alongside the drawers facing up. Position the gold-leaf decoupage motif inward the optic of the pinnacle drawer alongside contact newspaper side down. Align the direct border of the motif alongside the pinnacle border of the pinnacle drawer. Apply small-scale pieces of record to secure the principal large motif together with the circles inward position.

5. Lift upwards portions of the gold-leaf decoupage motif together with coat the dorsum alongside Mod Podge, removing record every bit needed. Lay motif dorsum downwardly together with polish alongside your hands. Wipe upwards excess Mod Podge alongside a rag.

6. Using a arts and crafts knife, cutting a centered line of piece of job betwixt the pinnacle together with middle drawers. Fold over edges together with adhere alongside Mod Podge.

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