I'm asked all the time what paint should people use? I have to use a laytex free acrylic due to allergies. I will sometimes add pigment to make them richer. You can invest in & use high pigmented paints ($$$). You can use acrylic paints. ($$) You can use water based craft paints. ($) Take a 16.9 fl ounce empty bottle of Icelandic water. Using a hobby knife to puncher & small scissors to trim, separate the top potion from the rest of the bottle. Leave the cap screwed on tight. Discard the rest of the bottle in your recycling bin. *Spray the inside of the bottle with mold release, I forgot to & you'll see the results further down. You will need a flat work surface, Plaster of Paris & room temperature water for the next step. Mixing plaster, 3 "dixie cup" size portions of plaster powder with 1/2 cup of water. Mix together completely. I found this to be the perfect amount of plaster to fill this one bottle piece. *If you are filling multiples, may I suggest you repeat the recipe for each one rather then multiplying the ingredients. The plaster tends to set-up fast & you'll want to avoid any lumps that occur. Fill the bottle shape. Allow the plaster to set up. I left it overnight. Read the packaging for an accurate allowance of time. If you sprayed the inside of the bottle with mold release the plaster shape should slide out rather nicely. And you may reuse the bottle mold! If you don't have some or like me forgot to use it...you will have to cut the bottle away from the plaster. Thereby destroying the bottle mold! Trim off any unnatural looking excess plaster using a pottery tool or hobby knife. Dust off any loose powder & allow the plaster shape to dry completely. Again I let mine dry overnight & well into the next day. As the plaster dries it will go from a greyish color to a white. Choose 5 hues of color & a foil. I'm doing a stone pillar therefore I've chosen: Prussian, Cobalt, Liberty, Stoneware, Regency Blues & Sterling. If I were doing a Cave Pillar, I'd use browns. If a Desert Pillar, I'd use yellows. If a Mountain Pillar, mixture of green & browns perhaps. Double load a small flat brush using the darkest 2 colors in your palette. *Mine: Prussian Blue & Cobalt Blue. Brush into the deepest recesses of the plaster shape. The paint will brush on with the two colors side by side yet perfectly blended from one to the other. **Keep working through these next steps without pausing. If your paint is given time to dry between hues it wont blend naturally. Then moving up your hues palette from dark to light brush on each color. *Mine: Liberty Blue. Then moving up your hues palette from dark to light brush on each color. *Mine: Stoneware Blue is actually a blueish grey. Then moving up your hues palette from dark to light brush on each color. *Mine: Regency Blue Now sparingly with a dry round brush, splotch on the foil color. *Mine: Sterling. Now to highlight the cuts of the bottle design. Using a linear brush & palest of colors accent the outside edges. *Mine: I'm using white. Now to give the highlight a natural shadow. Using a pointed round brush or tiny flat brush & a slightly darker color of your highlight. And a wee bit of paint mind you, this is meant to be a shadow not an actual color of the pillar. Pull paint color straight down from each horizontal line of highlight. Mine: I'm using Dove Grey. Allow to dry completely, do not handle the piece until it is completely dry! Turn over your plaster pillar & paint the bottom to finish. *Mine: I always use black. Allow to dry completely. Not set, not congealed but DRY! Using a glazing brush, seal the entire plaster pillar using Matte acrylic medium. I don't recommend using a brush on or spray on sealer as it can have a chemical reaction to the foil paint. It will brush on milky white & dry clear. Here you can see my finished stone tower ready to block or provide cover for #tabletop #RPG characters! Overall size: 60mm squared at the base & 65mm tall.
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