I know that antiquing is usually done with a darker color than the piece is already dyed, but, I want to sort of reverse the effect. I want the tooled area to be lighter, preferably a silver or gold, to bring up the tooled design. I haven't found any antiquing gel/stain in either of those colors. I tried using acrylic paint, but it stuck to the untooled high areas, as well. My base was dyed, then two coats of Fiebing's Resolene. After that I painted the acrylic paint, let it stand for two minutes, then wiped it off. But it didn't wipe completely wipe off the high areas and when I tried wiping harder it pulled the paint out of the stamped areas. Was two minutes too long? Is acrylic paint the wrong thing to use? Any ideas?
