Things You'll Need:
- Brushes
- Clear-coat Spray Paints
- Metallic Copper Or Gold Spray Paints
- Sea Sponges For Sponge Painting
- dark, medium and pastel verdigris-color acrylic paints
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Step 1
Clean the surface of the object you'll be painting. Let it dry.
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Step 2
Spray paint the object, or large areas of it, with metallic copper or metallic gold paint. Allow to dry thoroughly.
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Step 3
Paint much of the rest of the object with a dark teal green (a color about halfway between turquoise and hunter green) acrylic paint. Brush painting or sponge painting works best, but be sure to leave a fair amount of the metallic paint exposed, because you want an irregularly mottled finish. Allow to dry thoroughly. (You can use a blow-dryer to speed the process if the piece isn't too big.)
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Step 4
Highlight with a contrasting, lighter shade of verdigris green. You can achieve this color by mixing white paint into some of the green paint you used earlier, or purchase a separate color. Allow to dry thoroughly.
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Step 5
Highlight sparingly with small touches of a pale mint green paint that you purchase or mix. Allow to dry thoroughly.
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Step 6
Spray the entire surface with a protective layer of clear acrylic with a matte finish to discourage scratches.









Comments
BaseCampGirl said
on 10/16/2008 example's are things that are old copper. Sometime's they look blue/gold and not the greenish color.
TERRIEMAE said
on 6/3/2008 Thanks for the great idea. I'm always looking for ways to update or repair my old outdated or ruined finishes. I don't know what this finish looks like for sure but really want to know since I may be able to use it. Can you give me an example of what or something that may have a similar finish already? I'm trying to find a finish to change all of my brass finish chandeliers too, if I can. My deck furniture also since all of it has rusted, did not store for the winter. Shame on me! I also have a vendors booth at the 'Peddlers Mall', which allows antiques and any other items, from home, yard sales , flea mkts, antique shops, auctions, and even other vendor's booths etc. We vendors love buying each other's things and then seeing how it resales! :) I love doing crafts and my own restoring projects or just flat out changing the originality of something. Any info that I get, I could also use