Resins

Twas the Night Before A Show

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Lizzie stayed over on the night before the show. 

She brought along her new Dos Brio resin named Snitch. He was painted by Sue Kern and sculpted by Sheila Bishop  . 
When Lizzie had first gotten her Dos Brio, she’d asked me for name suggestions. I must have had Harry Potter on my mind because I said Snitch and Lizzie decided on Gunners Gotta Golden Snitch.
We decided to do a photo shoot with him and some of my Harry Potter Stuff. My other talent in life is book hoarding, so I have the books along with various additions and spin off books. I got to go to Harry Potter World two years ago, and came home with many items, including wands.
I ran a Tween book club last summer to earn my Girl Scout Gold Award, and one of the kids in the group gave me a golden snitch (our last book was Harry Potter)
Not the best picture, but a model named Snitch must pose with a golden snitch. 

#ModelHorseMonday

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Periodically on Facebook and Instagram the hashtag #ModelHorseMonday comes up.
So I decided to use the hashtag. My #ModelHorseMonday horse is my Working for Chex “Bueno” resin. He was scuplted by Debbi LerMond and I bought him over the summer.

He’s a large and chunky model that lives a double life as a magnet. He has two magnets in his hooves so whenever I drop things, I use him to pick them up! My plan is to find someone to paint him so that he can be a show model instead!

 

Resin Painting

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I decided that one of my long weekend projects would be to paint a resin, since I have like 2 weeks until my next show. There’s also a side saddle too. 🙂
I prepped her.

Then I painted her base color with acrylics. I splurged and bought higher quality paint, and it definitely shows. I kept doing layers until it was even.

After that I began using pastels and began to shade. I went from light to dark. It took a couple of layers to get it even and between coats I used krylon matte spray. Also I wore gloves so that my skin didn’t touch the unsealed pastels.

Once I was happy with the pastels, I sprayed the model with the krylon crystal clear. Once dry, then I added the white markings and painted her eyes.

Here she is!