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| Woodgrain nail art |
I love doing intricate line work, so with my new acrylics, that was the first thing I wanted to do. I settled on the idea of doing woodgrain texture early on when I started planning for The Digit-al Dozen texture week.
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| Woodgrain nail art |
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| Woodgrain nail art |
I found enough source images online, and they were helpful in doing lines that were fairly accurate. If I wanted to do highly realistic woodgrain, I would have added shading, but I felt the lines on their own were time-consuming enough. Surprisingly it didn't take as long as I expected. The line work took about an hour for all five nails.
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| Woodgrain nail art |
To get this look: I started with a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff, then sealed it with quick dry top coat. At the time I didn't have black acrylic paint (I bought a set of colours which didn't include black). Instead, I mixed red, blue and yellow to get a dark blue-black. I think this design might look better with a dark sepia, but c'est la vie! I waited for it to dry and sealed with quick dry top coat, followed by Cult Nails Wax That.
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| Woodgrain nail art |
My favourite nail is the tree rings on my middle finger. I also love my pinky - it's simpler than the others, but I used the side of the brush to get the thicker parts of the line. Basically, you paint with the tip of your brush, then lean it to the side to vary the line width.
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What do you think of this? Do you use acrylics for nail art?
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These look so good! Totally resembles wood. Such detail to them too.
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely stellar! Looks perfect; I think the colors you used were perfect (the blue-black is unexpected enough to take it from "hey, wood grain" to ARTSY woodgrain! haha). LOVE.
ReplyDeleteThese look so fantastic, this is such an awesome unique idea, I love them! And the colors you used are perfect, just wonderful! :)
ReplyDeleteIt looks amazing!! I have acrylics but somehow I hardly ever get to using them...
ReplyDeleteWow, you really did a great job with this. I can only imagine how time consuming it was.
ReplyDeleteLove it, is so perfect that seems you used a stamping plate!
ReplyDeleteI use always acrylics for nail art, I think is a good choice and you can make more tiny details with them for example :) But you know that, you're a queen of acrylics! ♥
i never used acrylics for nail art but i really have to try it. i love the design it works so well together
ReplyDeleteI never use acrylics. I think i did once. But i would like to start. I recently bought some tiny pots so i can fill them up with some of the paint my mom uses for her one stroke painting. Then i can have an array of colors to choose from :)
ReplyDeleteWow! This is really impressive!
ReplyDeleteSo amazing! Your line work is incredible. I resisted acrylics for a long time too, but I recently bought a few and am tentatively venturing into that world on occasion myself.
ReplyDeleteAwesommmmme! I love the different views you used here. I have some acrylic paints I purchased for this use, but none of my brushes are small enough to do super detail anyway, so I need to remedy that first :)
ReplyDeleteThese are so amazing! Dang!
ReplyDeleteThe detail is amazing, definitely a work of art!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing!
ReplyDeleteoh me oh my - this wood grain is sweet! i just did some over the weekend and it was not nearly as easy as I had hoped!
ReplyDeleteYes yes yes! I totally agree with your intro paragraph re: even professionals use acrylic paints sometimes and it is most definitely still nail art! AND I LOVE THESE NAILS SO MUCH. Great job!
ReplyDeleteoooh very cool!! Years ago when I first started doing nail art, I used acrylics. Then I went to polishes, and now I do a mix of both.
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