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Today we're actually going to be talking about the different kinds of glazes that are available
and these are glazes you can pick up at an art supply store or paint store. They're really
divided into two kinds of glaze. You have water or acrylic based glazes, and on the
other side you have oil based or alkyd based glazes.
Now, for the longest time we were using oil glazes which are not very environment friendly.
But they do impart a beautiful sheen and they are wonderful to work with. However, not being
very good for you from a health point of view, it's much better to use the acrylic or water-borne
glazes which are now becoming very, very durable and have been perfected so that they almost
are as good as oil glazes are.
One of the things about the water based glazes is that there are different sheens you can
buy. This is your generic glaze, but if you look on the cans of glaze that you're buying
you'll find that some are satin sheen, some are matte flat, and some are very glossy.
So, be sure you know what kind of sheen you want when you go out to buy your glaze.
Now coming to incorporating things in the glaze, aside from all the color options that
you have, but you can actually put glitter into them. You can use metallic paints and
put those into a glaze, and that's a beautiful look. Also, you can use glass beads and incorporate
them into a glaze, and then, as I've done here, use them through a stencil. That's a
very small transfer in glass bead, and this is a much larger bead used over a metallic
base coat.
So, these are the many ways that one can use glazes.