365/2013 - Day 47

and so it begins

Gah -- the dreaded time has come -- time to paint.

I worked out most of the ideas on black and white photocopies of the plaster cloth guys with a very limited set of colored pencils.  I have most of them figured out.  There is just no getting around it anymore, it is time to start painting.

Oh -- and this is how the glow-in-the-dark paint turned out (although I cannot for the life of me figure out how to photograph the glow).  

It might turn out that I will be more sparing with the glow-in-the-dark parts...I'm just not sure yet (based on these results).

From this point on I will only be blogging photos of first coats on the plaster cloth guys because they are possibly going into a show.  So this is the last view of the cat-ish king for now.

365/2013 - Day 46

getting ready to paint the plaster cloth guys

I have seven plaster cloth guys that need to be painted.  They need back stories and personalities.  I am not very good at this part.  I really hope my Universal collaborators show up over the weekend.

Tonight I am doing a test of three brands of glow-in-the-dark paints.  They each turned out to be very different when I applied them.  I will put on another coat tonight and we will see how they look tomorrow.

I know how I would like to paint two of the plaster cloth guys.  For sure one guy will get prominent glow-in-the-dark features.  I am pretty sure about a third one.  That leaves four others that need to be dreamed up...thinking cap is securely in place.

Teef!

Another "first" for me today...working with Fimo polymer clay. AND this is the kind that glows in the dark. So funny. It really, really glows brightly.

I couldn't get a good photo of the glowing teef in the dark with this camera, so I tweaked the photo as well as possible to give the idea of the effect. They glow a yellowy green (with no pink). (Guess what -- I am not a digital photo person, either...add it to my long list of "I'm not's"...LOL)


they are that bright in the dark, though!



















UPDATE: Oooh...I put the first few bottom teef in place.