I saw a photo of a plate with giraffes cut halfway through their necks and sprayed pink. While that was definitely not for me I realized I could substitute the color and the animals with my much preferred silver dinos! (This all is a preparation for a different project, I just needed to get the feel for cutting anonymous dinosaurs, you know, to find out if I was OK with it)
You'll need:
- 3 plastic animals roughly of the same size
- a plate (all I could find was a ceramic one, plastic would be easier)
- spray paint
- exacto knife (not as dull as mine, it took ages to cut through!)
- universal glue
- optional: nail polishes for cooler eyes
So, at first you need to take a look at your dinosaurs, compliment them a little so that they start to feel a false sense of security. Say that the measuring is part of their regular health check. Oh, if they only knew...
Then, when they expect it the least, attack- stab them and cut them all around. If you have a dull knife, it will take ages as well.
Once the dinosaurs are halved, stick them to the bottom of your plate. Make sure they are evenly spaced. I started upside down to get them where I needed them but then flipped them over so that gravity would help me.
Repeat with the upper halves. Now, doesn't this start looking cosy? :-)=
Get out and prepare to awaken you street sprayer side. I was lucky - it was sunny as well as windy so that narrowed the time of 2 hours of drying per 1 coat to just plain 2 hours for all coats.
I had to spray two coats per side because as you can see here, the primary color seeped through the first coat.
But two coats was enough so all I needed were final touches - the eyes.
Yeah, they look rad :-D= Or red? I dunno. Pardon my English :-p
Aaaand that's it. I'm not sure this is food safe so I decided to let them treasure the keys.
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