Priming & Painting Wire Sculptures

Video Transcript

"I'm Mark Kooy here with Expert Village and we are going to be talking about wire sculpture and braising techniques and tools. Okay we've positioned our figure and created our space that he is working on and the tension and we've kind of created a theme of what our figure is doing. Like I mentioned earlier, just being a wire adds motion; any little tremor, breeze things will keep him almost with a little bit of movement. Now at this point what we are going to be able to do next is where our wire brush will come in where we can, just a little bit toasty so I am going to pull my glove out here to hang on so that I can get rid of some of the welding or braising residue and some of the rust that is on this particular piece. And if I were totally prepping this, I would probably take a little wire brush tool, air tool and brush it out or do the whole surface with the wire brush on the whole thing if I were going to paint it before I would apply the primer. Now some of the primers that you can get are both sandable, you can put them on and sand them out and also the numbers of primers out there. There are different ones. Bristollian is one brand name. The primer will spray on and convert rust back to metal and so that kind of helps with rustier, dirtier pieces that you might find. So if we were going to paint this, we would primer the whole thing with our primer and then we could use our rattle can colors or air brush or just hand brush pieces on. But you need to primer it first. That kind of helps clean up the surface and for the other paints to stick well. "