For this year’s Markham Fair I am sending in a generic Ninja Turtle I sculpted out of Aves Epoxy. It was the first time I’ve ever used the stuff so I was proud of it for that, but based on other full figured sculpts I have done in different materials, this one is a little lacklustre. Not a problem, perhaps I can hide my crimes with a layered paint job that adds where my physical piece is lacking!
So far it has been primed and had four layers of different shades of green, and one yellow sprayed on it. A dark green wash for the lumps & bumps. And a tooth brush spackle of dark green, plus some red, blue, and purple blotches. I will tie it together with a thinned out dark green over top. I got impaction and laid down some black under layer on the knee pads and then reminded myself I wasn’t done with the green skin, and I haven’t added any brown or yellow for the shell yet either. No point rushing forward just to paint over top of it immediately after.
I’ll see how today goes if I can do any more of it. I need to mow the lawn, do the kids laundry, and vacuum out the van, and unstack all the weights I have piled on the Taekwondo belt display that I glued up yesterday afternoon. I made a huge error and had to cut it down by 2/5ths, because I’m an idiot. So now I don’t think I have any room to router in any text. Maybe a name or initials and that is about it! D’oh!
The camera isn’t picking up a lot of the subtleties of the paint job, but that’s ok. It gets judged in person under orange fluorescent lighting. So I’m not too worried. I don’t typically win these things, I just like to enter, and have something of mine visible at the fair since I no longer draw or paint on canvas much anymore. I’m well out of practice and don’t get in the mood for it until fair time, and by then I haven’t practiced enough to make anything worthwhile to submit. Could be worse! Ha.
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