How to Make an Egyptian Canopic Jar Statue Part 3

How to Make an Egyptian Canopic Jar Statue Part 3 Okay and just would keep going until you cover the entire sculpture. This is a quite as messy as the old strips of newspaper and dip it on a bowl of paper Mache paste. And just make sure that you go over every inch of it. I’m just going over and making certain that things are flat and smooth and covered with Polymer. They aren’t any little pieces of paper towels to sticking out that shouldn’t be there. The smoother you get it the better and the easier it’s going to be for you when you go to paint and more importantly the knot when you go to decorate because the smoother surface is definitely a lot easier to draw than a rough surface. So if you just kind to go back over and check things out and make sure that all your paper towels are lying flat and then you paint it over with the Polymer medium, so that everything has kind of a nice coating on it. They’ll be easier to draw and paint on because after this dries, we’re going to come back and show you how to put down your base colors, and then we’ll talk about decorating. So we’re just going to set this aside, and leave them alone and give them a change to dry. Okay, it looks like our little sculpture is dry enough to start painting, so kind of in keeping with the color skin of Egypt. We have to do lots of metallic turquoise blue, so I think I’m going to go ahead and start with some gold. Let’s go ahead and paint the mere cloth. We’re going to paint that gold and I’m just using acrylic paint and they come in these little jars like these where they are already mixed and you don’t have to thin them out with water or anything. When you used acrylic, make sure that you have some kind of paint shared on which I don’t have because if you get acrylic paint on your clothing it’s not coming out must you get it right away. Actually acrylic paint is great for painting on T-shirts and sweat shirts because it doesn’t wash out. And a good brush trick is when you’re painting up next to an area that you want to have a clean line if you go to same direction. If the brush follows the edge of a line you get a nice clean edge versus trying to paint this way because you’ll never going to get it straight. And then later we can come back and put the stripes a sort of customary stripe golden black in the mere cloth. We can even do turquoise and maybe outline it with black, and so color scheme is up to you. So I’m just going to keep painting this. I finished this with the gold and then I’ve got a rich gold that’s going to be lighter and brighter that I’ll probably put on the face and we’ll just keep going until we get them all finished. Now after this has all been painted and you probably going to want to let it dry for maybe an hour so just to be certain because it will be a lot easier when you start drawing your designs and patterns on top of the background color because basically, what you’re doing is you just laying down a background of color. On this one he was painted gold and then I used some copper paint and painted it. And then when everything is dry then you start working from this packet of patterns here. There are all kinds of designs here. They are authentic Egyptian designs that have been taken from different original pieces of art. I used checker boards here I used this kind of leaf like shapes here dots, triangles, look like a dark shadow on them, just simple stripes, circles, concentric circles or circle inside of the circle inside of another circle, flowers that the Egyptians loved their flowers. Their floral arrangements here, a triangle of dots, so and then you decorate the back. Here’s another version of the lotus blossoms with little dotted floor or pattern in between. And you can see you can just go on forever and ever, and this one is not even totally complete at this point. There’s still more designs I could add to the back of his head and the back of the cloth and probably to his beak because you have to remember a sculpture is something that’s viewed from all angles. So you want to do as nice a job on the back of him, and the side of him and you do on the front.