Rough Stipple Glazes

¶ Rough Stipple Glazes. In the case of painted, not enameled, surfaces the rough stippled surfaces make far more beautiful effects. The ground coats of paint in this case are stippled in the regular manner with a stippling brush before the paint becomes dry. That eliminates the brush marks, distributes the paint better and leaves a surface pitted with tiny pores. The coat should be mixed thicker than is used for finishing with a brush in the ordinary manner and it should be mixed to dry flat. If a much rougher surface is wanted mix the paint in that manner and then just before brushing it on throw a handful or two of dry plaster of Paris in the pot of paint. Stir it in to mix it only fairly well. You don't want it completely soaked up and mixed with the paint. When such paint is brushed on it may be stippled to a far rougher and more beautiful finish, than plain stippling of ordinary paint alone. Then if a very tough surface is wanted mix into the paint a few handfuls of fine screened sand and stir it well to mix the sand in the paint.

¶ When one of these rough surfaces is coated in part or all over with a glaze color and wiped off the effect is very interesting. The glaze color may be one which is closely related in hue to the ground color or it may be one which harmonizes by contrast. One or several glaze colors may be used. A common method is to pick out, that is, color, the mouldings a different color than the ground and different than the general color used to gain the antique shading, or aged effect in the corners and depressions of carvings, corners, etc.

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