I made the owl-head belt buckle out of an entire 8-oz. pack of Paper Clay. It dried feeling extremely light. It took a few days to dry completely. I filled in some cracks on the back and the inside of the beak (from the bottom) with hot glue to improve its structural integrity. I was regretful to have to antique the owl-head belt buckle because it was so beautiful when I painted it with flat metallic gold acrylic paint:
Unfortunately, you couldn't see what it was from the side:
This is how the owl-head belt buckle appeared after antiquing:
To create an "antique" effect on my armor, I mixed black and blue paint together to create a shadow color, rubbed it on my armor, and wiped it away, but left it in the crevasses. (Sometimes I had to go back in with a paint brush to get the effect right, especially on the stripes on the owl-head belt buckle.) I also painted on faux "shadows" because I knew you would not be able to see any real shadows in flash-photography. You can especially see this on my loincloth, where the point in the middle "casts a shadow" on the swirly pieces under it. On the owl-head belt buckle, the dark areas are also shadows and recesses, for instance the nostrils. (My friend said that the beak looked all lumpy with thumb-prints all over it before I painted it, but I think it was because she didn't know it had nostrils until I finished the antiquing process, and maybe she thought the nostrils were weird dents. I don't think the beak looks lumpy...)
Here you can see the antiqued owl-head belt buckle, barn owl-head knee armor, and loincloth. They have all been sprayed with shiny lacquer to seal them. The barn owl-head knee armor was made from another 8-oz. pack of Paper Clay with some to spare. They took a few days to dry, and I painted them with silver and copper metallic acrylic paint, and antiqued them with the same black and blue mixture of acrylic paint. Note the faux "shadows":
More to come!
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