The Santa is made out of plaster and was purchased at The Plaster Fun House. Usually you paint the plaster ornaments in the store and they put a varnish over it before you leave. While I admit that it is fun to spend hours there painting an ornament, there are a couple of problems with the setup at The Plaster Fun House that mainly stem from the fact that the establishment is designed primarily for kids:
- The chairs are tiny and give you back ache after a while
- All the paints are watered down and contain a 'rainbow of colours' in every pot
- While they sell coffee in various forms they are no means a coffee house. I suggest taking your own thermos unless you like drinking something that tastes like muddy water
- There are plenty of temper tantrums and kids crying over paint colours and ornaments, so wear earplugs.
These paints (while they are more expensive than acrylic at around $6 a pot) cover incredibly well. Due to the ornament being made out of plaster, there were a lot of imperfections in the surface, however, so I had to 'over paint' the lines to make sure that all surfaces were painted. Here is a picture of santa before he got eyeballs (scary, huh!):
To say that painting the ornament was fiddly would be an understatement. There were many times where I almost gave up hope. I still have not finished it, as there are parts that need to be touched up, but here are some pictures of what it currently looks like:
and here is a picture of the toys in Santa's sack (my favourite part of the ornament):
Once I have touched it up and varnished it, I will post another picture of it completed (hopefully that will be this weekend!)
Here is a link to the other post on painting the Santa ornament:
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