How To Paint Faux Fur - Many Different Ways To Color Fur

Hi, everyone and Sara with ruffles and rain boots, and today we are going to be coloring faux fur in a billion different ways. If you'd like to join us stick around and as always, please subscribe to. Ruffles and rain boots hit that notification button and like so. I know that you're here, because you will get to see things like this look at this color. It is intense and it coming soon. Okay, so for this one we are going to focus on a few things everybody has around. We have acrylic craft paint, we have casein paint, which is also called milk paint. These are at every craft store. We have a very thick metallic acrylic that I'm going to be testing out today and then another one is the fabric and whether it's fabric metallic or not we're gon na use that we're gon na use markers we're gon na use your kiddos watercolors. I love this method and we're also going to need a paintbrush. I used a flat brush water comb and a slicker brush. I'M also going to use white faux fur, but if you have cream it could possibly work with a little color transfer there. Okay, so the first one we're going to start out with is milk paint, which is casein protein paint, and it is already watered down it's already, a very liquid paint. So you don't need to add any water unless you're trying to blend colors or do something like that. So I tried two methods and I'm gon na tell you which one works well for each paint, the first one with this one. I will tell you with pretty much any paint: you're not gon na go wrong. If you separate the fur and what I mean is starting at the back, we're going to be adding our pin we're adding our color right on to this fur and then on towards the edges. I wanted a Mongolian frosted gray. Look so I went and added a little bit of water to the existing color at the bottom, and then I'm just basically pulling that color down with a little bit of water so that they get lighter at the end. And then our next layer we're just gon na slip that fur again we're gon na lay it on top and I'm going in with the lighter color milk paint. Again, I'm adding a lot of saturation in the center and then pulling it down. And then I keep doing this for each of the layers. I mean these little tiny pieces. I was done with these in two minutes, but once I have all that color down what I'm gon na, do I'm gon na add in darker streaks, so that I can have a lot of depth and dimension and you can tell when it's wet. But you wouldn't really tell when it's dry and just so that you all know I use two different kinds of fur we used a very. This is the inexpensive craft fur which I particularly don't like to use, but you can see them side-by-side. Mongolian is on the right and they both took color, so you're gon na leave those to dry next up is watercolor. Now, if you're a fan of ruffles and rain boots, hey listen, add it onto the top or separate the furniture choice, but everything is controlled with the amount of saturation you're using or the amount of water so do whatever your heart desires set it aside to let It dry now the marker method, the best part of this is you can do it a couple different ways. This is a single color blended through the merino wool, with a piece of fabric. That'S it, and here we're just going to create a cupcake sprinkles beard for a gnome we're working on, and all you have to remember, is that you can't undo this and then you just let it dry alright. So this is one of my favorite to see acrylic paint everybody has in their craft room. I used two colors for a lot of dimension and it really did come help pretty amazing. So all I did here is: I have my colors on the pallet there. I'M adding a little bit of water and then I'm going to take two different colors and I'm going keep it them separated, and I'm just going to test this method here with the acrylic. I will tell you: hands down you're gon na want to separate the fur. Don'T do this with the acrylic paint, because I'll show you later what happens to the center? It'S just silly. So what we're gon na do is we're gon na layer. This paint we're not gon na blend. This paint so much because we actually do want these. Two very distinct colors coming through and when just in your normal brush and you're gon na be blending a little bit, so you see all that white in the middle. That'S why we separate the fur and paint it in layers just FYI. You can use a wide brush to separate. I use that to separate I use my paintbrush, the tip of my paintbrush, whatever you want, but either way you're just gon na make sure that all of it covered and then you're also going to add in different streaks and depths and dimension and you're gon na Set those if I don't let them dry next up, is a single color and I use the both the fabric paint and the metal like really thick thick paint, and I used this process for both of them. So I did go in first and I put down an all-over color, so I made sure it was a pretty bright, so it has a lot of saturation. But again I wanted variation. So I brought in a little bit of water. I added all over my color and then I did the tips a little bit differently and then I added more paint and then I added that deep dark section in the center, so that really pops, when you have it on on something whatever you're doing. I don't recommend any of these methods by the way, if you're doing cosplay and cosplay and you're doing a massive suit. No you're gon na use dye and I'll show you that soon, but these are really really great for small craft projects, so we're just gon na brush it out we're gon na separate the fur and then we're gon na add our dimension and let it to dry. Now you can blow dry this or with the blow dryer and he said it with heat, but honestly it's not necessary and I'm lazy, so I just leave it there. Alright, so the next day you can see here, I'm just taking a very wide tooth. This is a cat brush. No, I don't own a cat, but I really like this brush because it's wide and what it's gon na allow you to do is get any of those big big clumps. So you just pull off any transfer. I barely had any transfer with these methods, meaning I didn't pull out a lot of fur, but I will say you want to go in and sort of rub between your fingers, the big maps, because you will have them where the paint has sort of glob together. It'S blob board. I'Ve no idea anyway. So once you see or once you go through with the thicker comb, you can. I mean it looks like fur. But if you look up close, let me show you here and it kind of looks a little ready, and so, if you like that, if you're fine with it, if you want to cut those off, that's fine, you're gon na want to clean off your tools and Services, I want to be sure to tell you this. Please do not do this on a white surface that you really really like because look at what happens. This is every single color, every single method, water, color. Every everything will shed that color when you brush it out: okay, so if you're, not okay with the Maddie pieces like these on the ends, besides just take this slicker brush or a fine-tooth comb, oh my goodness, 30 seconds, and this thing transforms it becomes again. This is the particular the Mongolian fur it becomes so shiny and bright and soft. Oh, it's a beautiful, so I would recommend the to brush method, the thick cut or the white comb and then the thin slicker brush, because this is just amazing so whether using watercolor or you're, using marker or you're using acrylic. Let me know what is your favorite method just add a comment below hey thanks for joining me. I really appreciate it stay tuned for that sneak peek and please like and subscribe to ruffles and rain boots.