Curtis,
Is there a trick to using the Ironite? How thick do you spread it on there? I tried this on a retaining wall I did awhile back and the result was spotty with streaks (like leaving a rusty nail on your patio). Maybe I didn't use enough Ironite?
Greg
----- Original Message ----
From: Curtis Stewart <dbigkahunna@yahoo.com>
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7:36:07 PM
Subject: RE: [papercreters] Re: I just had to do a picture
Nelda,
Here is a trick with these forms. After you pour the concrete, screed it and give it its first float, let the water evaporate then cover it with 1 mil plastic. Push the form into the plastic. Pull off and repeat. don't worry about the wrinkles in the plastic as it gives it character. After the concrete cures 3-5 days take plane old ironite fertilizer and spread it over the concrete. Dampen the concrete fairly heavlly to allow the ironite to begin disolving. It will give a terra cotta red. Another color is Copras which gives a tan buckskin color. When you seal them with a solvent based sealer, the colors "POP"
Nelda Percival <nelda_percival@ hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ernie,
Home Depot, 3 yrs ago.. for I think it was under 10.00 but was on sale...
hard plastic. it is supposed to be used on a sidewalk.. But I liked the idea
for my floor. I'm not pushing it down very far only about 1/2 inch deep...
Thanks for the painting tech... I'm saving it.. knew about the sounge.. not
the feather...
Did that help? you sure helped me!
nelda
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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Ernie Phelps"
Reply-To: papercreters@ yahoogroups. com
To: papercreters@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [papercreters] Re: I just had to do a picture
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:27:31 -0000
--- In papercreters@ yahoogroups. com, "Nelda Percival"
wrote:
>
> see:
>
> http://www.geocitie s.com/nlp_ home/myhome74. htm
> I think the pattern is really pretty
Nice pattern! Where did you get it and how much did it run you, if I
may ask? Is it a hard plastic press in or a rubber mat roll on?
For marble patterns you can get the variable "line" effects on it
through a trick I read about long ago. Take a long bird feather and dip
one edge of it lightly into the paint. Hold it by the quill and pull it
toward you, rolling the quill back and forth just a tiny bit as you
pull. This will get the "vein" effect alot easier than alot of
techniques you see out there. Most of the rest of it can be sponged.
- Ernie
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