Dye seashells for custom in crafts.
While seashells are admirable in their own equitable, sometimes chips in the Stop or dingy colours don't match the gander you're going for. Provided you prefer brighter colours on the other hand affection the shapes of seashells in your Craft, bid delineation them. Designing seashells with whitewash gives them fashionable entity and allows you to customize them to your d cor.
Instructions
1. Settle modern seashells in a bowl of lukewarm, soapy aqua. Gently scrub and swish the shells environing to receive rid of sand and Dried apricot seaweed clinging to the shells. Not only do these things prevent the paint from sticking, they're unsightly.
2. Rinse your seashells twice to receive rid of the soap residue and let them dry overnight on thick dish towels. Since shells are porous, they require a long drying time. Shells with water in the pores won't take paint very well.
3. Choose the seashells you want to paint.5. Slowly add tempera paints to your designs with a fine paintbrush. Add one color at a time, allowing each color to dry for about an hour before adding the next one.
Sketch your desired designs onto the seashells with a graphite pencil. Keep your lines light and create your designs to flow with the shape of the shell. Utilize stripes, dots, flowers or scrollwork that follows the striations in the shells.
Large shells with rough, chalky surfaces work best. They offer the most room for intricate designs and the rough surface will take paint easily. White bivalve shells, sand dollars and large snail shells work well.4.
