Mixing and Blending Coconut to match existing coconut.
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:34 pm
Sometimes the coconut doesn't quite match the existing coconut and it becomes necessary to work with it a bit. I discovered that mixing more than one color of coconut together does the trick. This first photo is of a rainbow house needing total restoration. Even though it photographed much nicer originally than it actually looked I noticed in the dark blue field to the right that it sort of looked like it had some white flecks in it. And the blue coconut I had looked too dark of a blue so I put some silver gray with it. As seen in photo 2.
I had to do a similar thing with the fence that required replacement. In this instance I mixed an orangey red with yellow. This was done to replicate the orange and gold flecks that developed in the reds to produce what friend Kathi calls tomato soup red. I had to paint the cardboard of the fence a dull red which I have mixed up to duplicate what was originally on them but as it turns out the coconut didn't stick well as it dried up too fast. So I had to redo that and on the rainbow house by mixing water with Aileen's Tacky glue so that it was the consistency of cream and then painting it on. Then it is a matter of sprinkling the coconut you have mixed up over the area. Of course over a piece of paper as you will need to catch it and reuse it. The photo flash sort of overexposes the fence and makes it look lighter than it actually is. Also NO white in it at all that is just reflection. Hope this helps. Tom
I had to do a similar thing with the fence that required replacement. In this instance I mixed an orangey red with yellow. This was done to replicate the orange and gold flecks that developed in the reds to produce what friend Kathi calls tomato soup red. I had to paint the cardboard of the fence a dull red which I have mixed up to duplicate what was originally on them but as it turns out the coconut didn't stick well as it dried up too fast. So I had to redo that and on the rainbow house by mixing water with Aileen's Tacky glue so that it was the consistency of cream and then painting it on. Then it is a matter of sprinkling the coconut you have mixed up over the area. Of course over a piece of paper as you will need to catch it and reuse it. The photo flash sort of overexposes the fence and makes it look lighter than it actually is. Also NO white in it at all that is just reflection. Hope this helps. Tom