Painting tiny dots ✨Just a few finishing touches before this one’s ready for varnish 👄
Posted by Rachel De Urioste Art on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Just a few finishing touches before this one’s ready for varnish.
Behind the scenes…
At the Center for Puppetry Arts
Camera set up to film painting the tiniest teeth. 🦷🖌
Painting tiny spots 🌚
After I finish the details, I’ll add a holographic sparkle coat and high gloss varnish to make the colors really pop. It’s all about creating depth through layering.
Cloudy Day Painting
Current set up for cloudy day painting 🖌️ In the background: resin casts of tree bark, big sun glasses, a tiny dinosaur, and a mannequin hand holding a heart model 🖐️
Stardust Dreamer
Painting silver/gold accents on this Stardust Dreamer. All those dreamy lumps and bumps. This step takes hours.
Process shots
These pics are process shots of the sQuishiepuss collab from a few weeks ago. sQuishiepuss did the line drawing of the pug. I sculpted on top of it with an air whipped epoxy clay, layered the colors with acrylics, then varnished the brain to make it look wet.
Figuring out how to hold tiny things while painting is always a challenge
A large part of making tiny things is figuring out how to hold them while working on them. I’ve made all sorts of strange rigs to make it work!
Monster bunny process shots
First layer of oils on a wood burned panel. After it dries, I’ll start adding more dimension/ detail.
Tonight I’m cleaning up flavor twist swirls!
I used masking tape to block out the vanilla sides of the swirls to aid in airbrushing the chocolate and strawberry portions. After removing the masking, the next step is touching up over spray/ any areas I missed with the a brush.
Masking and painting
Airbrushing with acrylic onto epoxy clay.