How to Paint Stars in a Room

Video Transcript

"Creating stars. There are many ways to create stars; for this particular purpose, I'm going to cut a stencil using acetate. I drew free-handed some stars onto the stencil that's going to become the pattern for making the stars on a wall or the ceiling and I will cut the last two stars out. Takes a little practice; sometimes you get a shape that isn't quite a star. We have our stencil and the application for this particular one is going to be with silver leaf; you could use gold leaf; you could also use glow in the dark paint, if for instance it's going on the ceiling of a room. I'm going to be using some gold leaf; I have silver leaf here, I'm going to go and fetch the gold and a little bit of size; there's oil base and water base size. I happen to have oil base with me and not any water base so today we will be with oil base which takes longer to dry and isn't really critical for the stars, but in other applications it could be 'cause you longer time to apply the leaf before it, the size which is glue dries. I have put it on the brush and then get a load off load it and then stencil directly onto the stars; being careful not to shift your stencil and you'll be able to see the star shapes are there because their, their shinier than the existing color that I have on this sample. We've applied size to the surface or if you would wanted to use paint, you could have used paint using the same stencil. I'm just going to take a little tiny bit and stick it on each one of those gold sized area for the gold leaf. Just stick it on. If you had a night sky, dark blue sky, silver leaf would be absolutely beautiful. If you just painted a sky on a ceiling, you could paint the stars with glue in the dark paint and then you would only see then at night. It's a lot of fun. If you're working overhead, which most cases you are painting stars, your neck is going to be sore; so break it up until a few days if it's a large area or get somebody to help you. So we've applied the leaf and now I'm going to simply rub it off and hopefully will stay where it's suppose to stay and not go where it's not suppose to go. Sometimes using the stencil, the size or the paint will go underneath the stencil and in this case here, it has happened and also here. I can take, since I use oil base a little thinner and just gently wipe that away and it would rectify it. But you can look at the ones that work nicely."