I’ve often mentioned that I like to speed-paint. Well, I really put my skills to the test this week, when I volunteered to help out at the Gloucester Association for the Deaf Family Fun Day. I originally offered to play. Then I offered to bring a small Ork army. Then I offered to donate the army for a raffle to raise money for the charity.
Then I remembered (on Wednesday afternoon, this week, with the event this morning, Saturday 10th April) that I hadn’t painted the army, yet. It was undercoated, and I’d painted, I think, three Ork boyz and, in that state, the army had sat for something like six months.
So this is what I managed to punch out in the in-between time and, I need to emphasize, I had Wednesday afternoon and Thursday from 0900 to 1600 in which to paint, then I was on childcare duties for Friday. So this represents about 12-14 hours of work, total.
I’ll let you know how much we raised!
R.
P.S. Yes, the pun in the title is absolutely deliberate.
April 11, 2010 at 2:52 am |
First things first – to acrylic paint well, you have to paint like you do not pay for the color! If you want a nice paint finish, you must apply the right amount of color. You do not spread paint just because you want to save money or for some other reason. For color and we forget the cost of paint and apply a nice, smooth, thick layer.