Paint, paint and more paint -- Fun-A-Day 2017, Day 3

With only 10 minutes left to the day, I finally finished painting all of the cardboard pieces for the dioramas! Below are all five scenes in order:

I think they'll look really cool once I've assembled them, which will be tomorrow's task!

 Some close ups:

Snowy Tundra

Desert

Stalagmite and stalactite filled cave

Volcano lava pool

Forest

I haven't ever painted much, so this mostly just a lot of experimenting and play with the paint until I got what I wanted. I used acrylic paints which mixed really nicely and were messy and fun to work with. I kept the bottom pieces as flat colors because I plan to have very textured bottoms, like with layers of felt and props and other things. They were painted mostly so I wouldn't feel like I had to cover the whole cardboard piece with felt, giving me more options and flexibility down the line. I might add to the landscape backdrops-- like gluing cotton balls to the snow banks, green tissue paper to the trees, glittery sand to the desert etc-- to give them more texture and make them pop more too. Oh, I also painted all the backs of the cardboard black so the dioramas will look nice from all angles!

Good night,

Filipa

(Darn, took me a bit over 10 minutes to write all this up haha I was hoping to post before midnight. Oh well :D)