Crackle finish with Elmer's Glue

Thanks to Dollar Store Crafts for featuring this post! For years whenever I wanted a cool crackled effect on my painted projects I used the very expensive (to me) crackle medium and even bought some paints that were supposed to crack on their own. Because of the cost I did not do anything large and I was sparing in what I did do. I've been doing this for awhile but if you go to the Elmer's faq site, you can see the instructions towards the bottom of the page. On their page Elmer's used wood glue. So this tutorial, as requested, will have lots of pictures and step by steps so you can see what to expect. I painted this piece of foam board with flat black acrylic. Here is the piece of painted foam board and a piece of painted muslin I have smeared with a generous amount of glue. Try to use long strokes in one direction when painting your top coat. Here is the top coat on the painted muslin. Here are two more pieces of painted muslin.

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