Re: Interesting Paint

Let me guess....Pearl Arts and Crafts???

Tony Finan
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----- Original Message -----
From: <johncrim@voicenet.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Interesting Paint

> I was in the local craft store today, looking for some matte finish,
and
found something
> new and different.
>
> It's an acrylic FolkArt color: Sparkles Holographic Glitter (#267). 
It's
a white paint
> (which dries clear) with a very fine glitter suspended in it.  The
glitter
is really neat:
> it shifts color according to the angles that it's being viewed at.
>
> You need to apply it pretty thickly (or in several coats) if you want
to
get a decent
> amount of glitter, but the effect is quite nice.  Just as an
experiment, I
added it to the
> tips of the "probes" of the Gray Aliens that I'm painting right now,
atop
some flourescent
> red paint that I had previously applied, and it looks pretty good.
>
> I'm not sure what else I'm going to use it for, but I'm a shameless
paint
whore, and could
> not resist picking up a bottle of "Holographic" paint.
>
> I'm a weak man.  But I'm a weak man with a lot of neat paint.
>
> John Crimmins     johncrim@voicenet.com
>
> http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim
>
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