{"id":3539,"date":"2014-02-05T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:24:50","slug":"from-kitschy-jaundiced-crap-to-16-scale-cemetery-centerpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/02\/05\/from-kitschy-jaundiced-crap-to-16-scale-cemetery-centerpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"From kitschy jaundiced crap to 1:6 scale cemetery centerpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I acquired a small replica of William Wetmore Story&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angel_of_Grief\">Angel of Grief<\/a> that he originally carved for his wife&#8217;s tomb. Made by Design Toscano, your friendly neighborhood purveyors of all things mediocre, tawdry and expensive, she looked like this initially:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other words, she looked like a cheap, wretched paperweight instead of a 1:6 scale statue. To remedy this dire state of affairs, I spent the last few days weathering my Angel of Grief. <\/p>\n<p>First, I applied black chalk pastel, diluted with a little water, in the folds and hollows of the sculpture. I used paintbrushes, wet smudge sticks of paper towel and my fingertips for adding color. The deepest crevices, of course, received the most shading. I added a lot of color, then ended up wiping much of it off, going for a mottled, aged appearance. <\/p>\n<p>Second, I applied dark brown chalk pastel in areas where dirt might collect and also on various surfaces for general staining. I found that stippling with the tip of a small paintbrush produced convincing blotches of dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I added small bits of dried moss that I had chopped up even more finely with a craft knife. I painted some Mod Podge in the area where I wished to stick moss &#8212; various creases of the statue, as well as the deepest hollows. I then picked up some moss on the sticky paintbrush and pushed it into place.<\/p>\n<p>I lost track of how much time I spent weathering my Angel of Grief &#8212; maybe four to six hours? I opine that every moment of labor was well spent, however, especially since I wish to make this sculpture the centerpiece of my 1:6 scale cemetery in Zombieville. After much painstaking improvement, this piece can now stand proudly among my favorite set elements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/isabel\/angel\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1623767.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1623767.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1623767.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I acquired a small replica of William Wetmore Story&#8217;s Angel of Grief that he originally carved for his wife&#8217;s tomb. Made by Design Toscano, your friendly neighborhood purveyors of all things mediocre, tawdry and expensive, she looked like this initially:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[746,658,704],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-16-scale-stuff-i-made","tag-cemeteries","tag-sets-16-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}