Waterholics Art is a journey through the joys of painting using Watercolors, Alcohol Inks, and Acrylics. The name is simple combination of all three mediums WATER-HOL-ICS.
From landscapes, sketches, animals and florals using watercolors, to abstract Alcohol Inks, to models and miniatures done with Acrylics, you'll find it all here.
I also enjoy dabbling in Photography and photo editing, so time and again may post interesting photo's I've taken, or enhanced and modified.
Today I'm going to explain and show you a quick, easy and cheap method to create an effective Wet Palette for miniatures or model painting.
Materials Needed:
An old CD Case - I use front cover
Piece of Paper Towel - Cut to fit CD Case
Piece of Wax Paper - Cut to fit CD Case
Process:
Basically you wet the paper towel, put it on the CD Case, then overlay the piece of Wax Paper on top of it. You then apply your paints to the Wax Paper and use that surface as your palette. The moisture underneath the wax paper helps keep the acrylic paint from drying quickly and extends the amount of time you can use the paint.
Some Benefits of the Wet Palette:
Paint Lasts Longer (you use less paint)
Helps if you want to blend or mix paints
Easy Clean-Up
Cheap and Easy to make
Watch the video I did here.
Hopefully this simple process helps. I have been using this method for years.
With Christmas a few weeks ago, I got a Hobby Lobby Gift Card and with that, I purchased a really neat item which will go a long way towards helping with many of my art and craft projects.
The work stand was $24.99 MSRP, but with one of the 40% off coupons, I got mine for about $15. I've seen others go for around $20 at hobby stores, and Amazon currently has it for around $21.
The kit comes with 2 different stands in it, one with spring clips, and another which has a platform and a bunch of varying hole sizes. The kit also comes with 4 clips.
Each stand has an internal lazy susan which allows you to rotate the stand around. The stand with the spring clips will have to be modified when you first unbox it, but I show how to do that in the video below. This stand is used for holding larger models, something like a car body you want to airbrush.
The stand with all of the holes is useful for inserting sprues, painting multiple items at once, using the clips to hold items, or to just rotate if you are looking to take pictures of an object from various views. I plan to also use these stands to take pictures of items when completed.
I have used this multiple times now in the week I have had it, and for around $20 or less, I'm sort of disappointed I had never purchased one of these years ago.
Video Review of Tamiya Spray-Work Painting Stand
I did a video review of the product on YouTube, See the unboxing video below.
In this video, I show how to adjust the spring clips, as well as show some examples of how to use each of the stands.
This Tamiya product is well worth the $20 or so dollars you will spend, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's tired of painting your fingers, or having to rotate objects in your hand to paint them. It really is a very handy set to have.
So I decided this past weekend to paint one of our nerf guns, just to get some practice with my airbrush, and to have some fun.
Here's a picture of the Nerf Gun that I'm going to paint.
Nerf Strongarm Gun which will be primed and Painted.
I then masked off part of the Orange Trigger and the front barrel and primed the Nerf Gun with a gray primer. Here's an image of the primed gun, ready for painting.
Once I had everything primed, I painted the magazine, and the handle a Semi-Gloss Black. Here's a picture of what the gun looked like after painting the magazine and the handle. I also put a bit of black overspray on the gun to dull a bit of the gray primer and give a bit of shadow in some areas.
At this point, I didn't really take a lot of photos of the detail work of the gun and really just had some final images, as well as comparisons to the original.
Here's the finished product, with the masking removed.
Here's the other side of the gun.
Here is the Before / After Comparison of the two.
This was a pretty simple easy and fun project. It allowed me to use my airbrush some.
I've now been challenged to mod and paint our whole group of nerf guns we have. Not sure I'm ready for that task yet, but it was a lot of fun.
