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Monkey Idol
This is a little Fischer Price (maybe?) toy my wife picked up
in the checkout line for me. I like
monkeys,
it's kind of
a thing
and she thought this
one was cute. She also didn't think it would stay that way...
First, he was mounted on a bottlecap. Then the banana was painted gold
and the eyes silver. After that dried, the silver was coated with red
ink to make a shiny eye set.
Then the big work. Grey paint, a little flour, some ballast, and wood glue to hold it all together transforms this cute little toy into an ancient idol. He got a light highlighting with lighter grey, then a black wash. Normally I do the wash first, but I wanted the wash to mute the highlights.
Also, from the above, I didn't like how the eyes came out. They
were flat on the toy and just painted on. So they looked a little ...
well ... flat on the idol. So I gouged out his eyes and painted the
recesses black.
I put two small stones in the sockets and painted them hunter green.
After that dried, I hit the eye rocks and the surrounding area with
a day-glo green. The day-glo paints I have don't cover well. You
pretty much have to paint an area white, then go over it with the
day-glo colors. But it does make a nice "green glow" effect with the
thin cover it provides.
All in all, not bad for a dollar cashier line impulse purchase.