Spray Fixatives on glitter art

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We always just used the same fixative as used for pastels, but it never worked all that well. The problem is, of course, glitter is heavy compared to pastel or charcoal dust. If you put enough fixative on to really glue down the glitter, it changes the gloss of the glitter.

Best to use a moderate coating and pray fervently.
 
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Some of the glitter will inevitably fall.
Add a mat, and spacers, and some extra glitter to the mat, so the glitter that comes off will blend in with the frame design.
 
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Ditto ^^^^^

I would never spray anything that wasn't my own.

Fixative is basically a light weight glue and will not hold in the long run. When I frame something with glitter (and I charge extra for that), I make sure to keep it completely secluded from anything else. I paper my work table before I work on it and toss that paper into the dumpster right after. Even then, I will still find sparks and stuff for a long time.
 
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I am so sorry to hear that your shop is now permantly infected with crafting herpies. 🤣 I have tried a few pastel fixents over the years but never had much luck either. I usally frame them like a pastel and use a drop mat and pray that the pieces that will fall, fall in the drop area. They are a nightmare.
 
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Eric A said:
I am so sorry to hear that your shop is now permantly infected with crafting herpies
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With your medical background, I'm sure you would appreciate the brief conversation I had with an art minded friend as we were talking about Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals. I explained it was like glitter in the art store... it's everywhere... just a matter of chance if it lands somewhere on you that's going to be noticeably uncomfortable later.
 
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Linda Lawson said:
Is there any kind of spray fixative to keep glitter from coming off a child's artwork on paper, once it's in the frame ?
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With an extensive crafting background, I can tell you no spray fixative is quite thick enough to completely stop glitter shedding. The only thing that will do it and keep the shine is a thick application of a gloss varnish or medium, so unless it was on canvas and they're not opposed to applying gloss medium all over, you just have to treat it the same way as we do pastels or charcoals, as suggested, and make space for drop-down particulates to hide.
 
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Perhaps put a layer of Tulle cloth pulled tight, or Crepeline French silk Organdy.
This idea was discussed in the Sugar Cookie Thread.
 
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I wish there were some magic way to contain glitter. Yesterday, someone brought in a 36x36 Romero Britto on canvas that has large areas of thick glitter on it. There was already loose glitter within the wrapping materials. I'm going to have to stretch this thing, hoping that the tension doesn't cause the glitter areas to come loose. Has anyone here had experience with one of these?
:whacky: Rick
 
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I don't know if this suggestion has any merit towards "containing" glitter, but has anyone ever considered simply laying a sheet of clear styrene flat against the "glitter-artwork" & securing it as firmly as possible therein (the 1.2mm styrene as used in poster-frame glazing)? It might not totally stop glitter-drop but it should lessen it. Just an idea.

I personally hate the stuff, but could actually use glitter relatively successfully if intermixed with acrylic or oil or various painting mediums. Also, from what I've read, glitter-tattoo inks & shimmer inks (with glittery pigments in both, though larger in the former & smaller in the latter) do exist but are not regarded as permanent. For myself, I prefer mica particles added to paint to achieve certain visual effects.
 
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glamorsidhe said:
...but has anyone ever considered simply laying a sheet of clear styrene flat against the "glitter-artwork" & securing it as firmly as possible therein (the 1.2mm styrene as used in poster-frame glazing...
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Styrene is not the same as acrylic. It deteriorates with time... maybe offgassing in the process? I wouldn't use it in a quality frame package.
:coffeedrinker2: Rick
 
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Rick Granick said:
Styrene is not the same as acrylic. It deteriorates with time... maybe offgassing in the process? I wouldn't use it in a quality frame package.
:coffeedrinker2: Rick
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Didn't know that about (poster-frame 1.2mm) styrene deterioration-over-time factor, but I too would agree it probably off-gasses during said deterioration (most "deteriorating" plastics do off-gas) --- if used solely as poster-glazing, less of an issue, but within closed environments as "sealed" picture-frames, another matter entirely. Yet, your answer to the above prompts me to raise another affiliated-plastic-query: Would a polystyrene imitation-wood frame (denser than poster-frame "glazing"), often used in corporate-office decorative-framing endeavors, also suffer the same over-time-deterioration? (Haven't found any online-comments regarding longevity factors for these frame-types.)

As always, appreciate valid comments. I'm never unwilling to learn.
 
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Rick Granick said:
I consider glitter to be akin to nuclear waste... you can never completely get rid of it.
o_O Rick
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And unlike poop (waste), which at least can be composted, glitter-waste can't --- nuclear waste radioactivity has, supposedly, a half-life of 50,000 yrs --- let's hope that of glitter is somewhat less . . . .
 
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Mary Beth van der Horst said:
With an extensive crafting background, I can tell you no spray fixative is quite thick enough to completely stop glitter shedding. The only thing that will do it and keep the shine is a thick application of a gloss varnish or medium, so unless it was on canvas and they're not opposed to applying gloss medium all over, you just have to treat it the same way as we do pastels or charcoals, as suggested, and make space for drop-down particulates to hide.
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You state your above comments from "an extensive crafting background" --- may I add my complete concurrence of same from an art/artist background. Right on!
 
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Eric A said:
I am so sorry to hear that your shop is now permantly infected with crafting herpies. 🤣 I have tried a few pastel fixents over the years but never had much luck either. I usally frame them like a pastel and use a drop mat and pray that the pieces that will fall, fall in the drop area. They are a nightmare.
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"[C]rafting herpies" --- I like that & will have to remember to use same to describe "glitter fallout" . . . .
 
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