"Hi Ho! Hi Ho! A Hodge Podge Podging we will go!"
The early dark evenings are pulling in fast ,and i like to do this with sunlight smiling through the large window and onto my first work table where the water level is now being applied on stage three. So i am racing while the daylight lasts.
This is great stuff to use but has an odd smell that for the life of me i cannot define further, except to say it is none toxic and it smells funny like HODGE PODGE, surely should.
" That makes sense to me BB."
I don`t like to use bigger brushes, because they tend to cause more trouble than they are worth,like losing bristles and creating far to many tiny air bubbles in the white glue. This is a six foot length to sort of level the stuff out on, before doing the next stage.
The stuff was worked into all the side edges first,then the Ducking with the brush began it`s quick work due to gained experience thus far. There is plenty of time to duck a brush woddle into this river of white . Ducking is stippling with a cheap soft brush which forms a duck-like foot as each brush action is applied.
i have thought of using a drinking straw in order to blow the ripples in form of flow,but like i mentioned before this has an odd smell to it, and therefore i would not like to be that close to it.
A small pond or stream perhaps that would be lots easier to use a straw, but not on this rather large layout, it would require much more stooping than i an able to do.
" Will there be fishes in the canal?"
"Sure there will,they were actually mixed into the mix while still in the tub"
"i can see one or two already."
This layer will dry clear and hard in 12 hours or so.
In hot country`s like Span much quicker!
For some it might be termed "watching paint dry",
but i thought to show it this way to prove its simplicity!
I`ve seen guys on You Tube,make their own Hodge Podge,but it is not Hodge Podge, It is watered down P V A Glue,which will most certainly go dull and cloudy.
£8.99 a Tub is peanuts when compared with other products.
"Why is that? "
Because i use it not for the purpose it was intended for.
Which was and is for Arts & Crafts in Decoupage!
These ain`t my draws,i have boxer shorts. See you guys later
BB