After a year of gathering dust on top of the fridge, finally getting back to Charlotte. There’s not really much that can be done with it, but I can at least clean up what I rushed to make the contest deadline. It was cool to win but looking back, I’d rather I had finished it well and not quickly.
So the primary solvable issues are the glassy over-tinted resin and whatever the fuck I did to that tree. Schnikes. Pretty sure it didn’t come out of the oven until midnight. I do not miss Instagram. <Squirrel!> OK, the list.
- over-tinted & glass smooth resin
- Top coat of Ethereal Blue, PVA, and gloss medium (1:1:6), messy application, multiple coats. I gave it a light dusting of the tree flocking, floating on the surface. It catches the light pretty perfectly. I am content with it.
- badly attached web
- base of bridge leg – trimmed
- tree – mostly covered by the new flock
- sad ass tree
- The polymer clay trunk and paint job came out OK, but like most of that period, my flock-fu was seriously weak. (It’s not great now, but this is a dumpster fire.) This one took a while. The foliage base is still primarily sea foam, writ small and glued to the trunk. Soak in PVA via dropper or spray bottle, dust with yellow, let dry and adjust as needed. Repeat times too-fucking-many. The tree also gives me an excuse to cover over some of the sad ass turf with yellow flock. Seriously, how did I ever live without sculptamold? The yellow flock is primarily dried rose petals after some time in the spice grinder. It’s still not great, but it’s better than it was.
I thought about dragging out the airbrush and doing another coat of spider serum on the re-flocked tree, but that shit is a pain in the ass to clean up. And knowing my luck, I’d mis-set the airbrush and blow half the existing web over the balcony. That being said, the original intention was to give spider babies a path to go hunting. Twisted wire would be easy to scale, but I have too much other shit I’ve been slacking on. Unless i discover a magical pocket of time, I think this is as good as it gets.
