Gerri
Bishop, gourd artist
Jacquard's Piñata colors are beautiful, highly saturated, acid free, transparent, colors. Highly versatile, Piñata colors can be used in a variety of applications, craft or fine art. Also use Piñata colors for gourd staining. Piñata colors can be mixed or blended. Apply with a stamp, pen, brush or airbrush. The Piñata Color Pack includes 9 one half ounce squeeze bottles containing 7 vibrant colors: sunbright yellow, calabaza orange, chili pepper red, sapphire blue, lime green, burro brown, blanco white and a bottle of clean-up solution and a bottle of Claro extender.
"The
first two photographs show a background done with burro
brown, chili red and a yellow. I tossed some alcohol randomly
to provide patterns. This gourd had a dark, ugly skin and
with the Piñata colors has turned out to be one of the most
striking pieces I’ve done. It will be placed in an
art show auction for the Blind Institute and is expected
to bring in great money for that organization." - Gerri
Bishop, gourd artist |
"This
next gourd has burro brown on the bottom and tangerine and
chili red rubbed together on the upper half." - Gerri
Bishop, gourd artist |
"This
one was an experiment with all the colors. I neglected to
take a picture of the finished product, which had carved
kokopellis in gold randomly placed around the gourd. It
sold quickly. The picture doesn’t do it justice. It
looks very jewel-like, actually." - Gerri Bishop,
gourd artist |
"The
mask one has forest green mixed with yellow, and baja blue
mixed with purple on the top half of the mask." - Gerri
Bishop, gourd artist |
"Then
there is the Indian with a background combination of yellow,
burro brown, tangerine and alcohol rubbing to blend. This
one is at the Jasmin gallery in La Jolla." - Gerri
Bishop, gourd artist |
"The
last one, while not a good picture, is really quite beautiful.
It has lime green, chili red, tangerine, and yellow all
dribbled on each other, then alcohol and the thinner dripped
and tossed to make random patterns. This one had a gold
and lime green kokopelli carved from another gourd added
to it. Once the polyurethane hit those colors…jewel
like again. Very lovely." - Gerri Bishop,
gourd artist |
"I
love this stuff. It covers nasty skin and makes it lovely
and more interesting, and depending on the gourd and how
the color has taken to it, every one turns out SO very differently
with alcohol and thinner thrown at it. Plus, the Indian
ones above, where the shirts and skins meet the Pinata dye,
the different sections are so EASY to blend. There are no
telltale lines of where you stopped with one thing and started
with another. The real secret to using this dye, is having
the cleanest surface you can manage. I always sand my gourd
surfaces to make sure there is NO remaining wax. That way,
the colors take to the gourd beautifully. But if you find
a spot of wax, rubbing on another color (artist crayon or
colored wax) covers it right up and blends with the gourd.
The colors are also quite nice when rubbed lightly with
a gold wax. When the fixative spray hits, the colors bleed
through the gold just a bit and give it a whole new look."
- Gerri Bishop, gourd artist |
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