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Last updated on: June 2, 2013 at 4:18 pm by Kate Cousino

Weekend project 2013-06-02T16:18:00-04:00 Kate Cousino

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I wanted to freshen up my Mom’s statue of Mary during the month of May, but didn’t quite manage it. Instead, this was my project the first couple of days of June.

Aetheline helping clean Mary up – removing paint flakes and dirt with a toothbrush.

Of course, she had to brush her teeth. 🙂

Pascal preferred blasting the dirt off with the hose.

All cleaned up, ready for primer and new paint!

I did the rest of the painting myself, with a little bit of ‘help’ from Aetheline whenever she caught me at it. I used an all-surface primer that the fellow at the hardware store recommended.

Mary, white as the driven snow. 🙂

Primed and ready!

Then I painted over the primer with acrylic craft paints. The great part about that is that I could easily fix mistakes with a wet rag, wiping the fresh acrylic off of the dry primer.

I decided to make the underside of Mary’s cloak light blue. A blue cloak over a white dress would be my preference, but this way conserved my art paints a bit!

Mixing flesh tones is tricky: this is a mix of white, cranberry red, raspberry red, and a little bit of brown and yellow. It’s still not as tan as I would have liked.

Here’s a couple of pictures of the (almost finished) statue. Sorry for the poor quality, I took all of these with my phone rather than my camera.

You can’t really see it in these pictures, but I tried to give the outer cloak some more depth by adding light blue ‘shadows’ and then wiping most of them away with a damp cloth, so that it only remains very lightly in the folds.

I finished the statue with a semi-gloss coat of clear spray-on outdoor masonry finish. Mom is pretty pleased, and I really enjoyed myself! I would have liked to play a bit more with adding shading and depth, but Aetheline was far too interested in ‘helping’, and the forecast was for rain, so I just finished up instead.

Maybe next weekend we’ll get a chance to get her set up somewhere nice on the property, and we’ll have a little installation crowning!

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