Hi everybody, I'm artist Lillian Gray and today we are
painting cute little Amy, the armadillo that we created in a previous video.
Enjoy!
For today's lesson, you will be needing some sandpaper to smooth out your sculpture,
acrylic paint, the colours that you have decided on, various size brushes, some water and paper towel to
clean your brushes, and clear spray paint to seal your sculpture right at the end.
Step one is to sand down your sculpture.
This creates a really beautiful, smooth finish. If you spent more than
enough time with a wet brush in our previous video, finishing off and smoothing out your sculpture,
you don't need to sand that much, but just spend some time to really refine your sculpture.
It makes it look beautiful and almost like a shop finish.
Step two is to decide on the base colour for your sculpture.
We are going to accentuate the patterns that we have created on Amy's body to really
create that leathery texture that an armadillo skin has. I'm going to be taking a brush
and filling in black into all the little crevices, making sure I can bring those patterns to life.
As you paint in black, make sure you're only painting on the areas that are patterned.
You will notice I'm leaving Amy's ears, snout, and legs open to expose the bare clay.
We have now reached step three where we get to paint the beautiful little pink
of her snout, the inside of her ears, and her legs.
I have mixed a nice pink just using white and red and I'm now going to start painting them.
We have now reached step four. With step four I'm going to mix a bit of an ochre,
just to tone down some of this pink, and I'll really start brushing with a dry brush on her back
to bring out the patterns. When you're doing the patterns on your back, make sure you don't have
a lot of paint on your paintbrush because you do not want it to go into the little deep crevices
of the patterns. That would ruin the black effect we're just trying to create.
We have now reached step 5 where we're ready for the details. We've created quite a beautiful
base for Amy and we're now going to move to our tiny brush, using black and white,
adding all the little details that really brings out her personality.
I would say this step, the eyes, are the most important.
You really want to build your little character.
We have now reached step six which is our final step. We are going to seal beautiful little Amy.
Remember, we're working with air-dry clay. It's not as hard as clay that we bake in a kiln or an oven, so
we need to protect our acrylic paints as well. I usually give about two coats. Remember to spray
in a well-ventilated area, always wear a mask, and if you're a minor, get an adult to help you.
You've got to shake your can really, really well and then we're off to spray.
And that's it for cute little Amy the armadillo. I'm really chuffed with how she came out,
and I hope all of you learned a little bit more about armadillos watching our two videos
on how to create her and now how to finish her. I'm artist Lillian Gray.
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We'd love to see what all of you are up to.
I'm artist Lillian Gray and see you next time.