Stewart Gill Paints

I should be working on some tasks or one of the many project that I have underway but I wanted to play with my new paints. I talked about these in my Houston - Day 3 report. The paints came with a really nice book showing how to use the paints and even has a page with directions for making a test swatch. it was a good exercise because I got to try out a little of each paint. Where I had comparable paints, I also did the test with Jacquard paints to compare the brands.

The Stewart Gill Colourize compares to Jacquard Textile Colors and behaved similarly in the painting test. The SG MetaMica compares to Jacquard Lumiere but the glitter in MetaMica might me finer than Lumiere.  That's about where the similarity ends - at least with the jacquard paints that I have used.

This sample at left is made by painting a layer of SG white Pearlize and then painting over it with a blend of Pearlize with red Colourize. I just scooped a tiny bit of Pearlize into a plastic spoon and gradually added drops of red to get the gradient. I love the shimmery effect of this paint.

The sample below is made by painting a layer of Colourize and then painting over it with Alchemy. The 4 colors are White Mist, Opal, Seaspray and White Hot.  I painted it straight out of the bottle but I think it could be thinned. Isn't that a great effect?

I also bought Byzantia but the sample just doesn't photograph well but it is a beautiful superfine glittery paint. I love it too.

Now to come up with a good project to use them! Speaking of which, since coming home I've become a little overwhelmed by lists running around in my head. On top of that I got two more work projects assigned this week. Time for lists! I made a work list (still overwhelming and long but at least it's in one place) and a sewing list. It's long too but here are the things that I have to focus on first:

• prepare samples for a jacket class I an teaching in a couple of weeks
• mail out some fabrics to Alycia for her 5th grade QOV project
• black/white and 1 color postcards for MQResource swap
• load Mom's Stack and whack for quilting
• favorite artist postcards for the Stitcher's Guild swap

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Comments

[Brigitte Haydel]

Oooh La La....I love the red paint samples. That is one of my very favorite colors. Very pretty. Now, where can you buy Stewart Gill paints?

[Brigitte Haydel]

Never mind....I overlooked your link. Sorry.

[Summerset]

Oh Wow! Those are gorgeous! I'm using Lumiere at the moment, but I might have to buy some SG! The pink to red gradient is just really beautiful.

[zizzybob]

Oh, no, not paints now too! It's all your fault that I'm making postcards, now you're teasing me with paint. There is not one square inch of empty space left in my studio.

[Gayle]

Vicki,
One of the reasons I love your blog is because of how much you share, and how you share it. Thank you!

I just bought paints in Houston too, but not these. I guess I should have checked with you first!

Gayle

[Deb Geyer]

I'm not a painter but you make it look like fun!

[Kate]

I have some MetaMica paints - I haven't really used them to their full potential I think, but I do like them...

[beth]

Hmm, paints.

I don't have any paints, though I've pretty much exhausted the internet supply of garment and quilt fabric. And yarn. As my husband says "hey George, the ocean's calling, it says it's running out of water"

Now you've opened up another new frontier for me. Forward some links for shopping!

[Terri]

Fabulous samples Vicki. I can't wait to play with my paints too.

[Deb Levy]

Well, very interesting test. I have used the jacquard paints (all of them) for years. Looks like I might have to try these now.

Thanks for testing and SHARING the results.