Giant Plaster Easter (Dinosaur) Egg

Step 9 Decorate

Sand down the tip where the nipple of the balloon made a non-egg like mark.
Give it some more time to dry without the balloon.
You are ready to decorate.
Let your imagination run wild here.  Spray paint works.  You might try a primer coat to make it smoother, less porous.  I want to try painting it, covering part with masking tape and painting a gain to get stripes.  In the pictures I just painted it Silver and Pink. 
I really like the metallic colors.  Gold has worked nicely.  And there is the nice imagery of the Golden Egg.  
I'd love some ideas on decorating, this is not my strong suit.
Check out the painter pyramid instructable I did www.instructables.com/id/Painters-Pyramid-cardboard-version/.

Comments

[Obediah]

Here's where I ask the Instructables Community for input...Plater seems very porous when painting.  I would love to get a smooth glossy, almost glass like finish if I could.  Is there something to coat plaster with to help with painting?  I've tried primer, but that didn't seem to do much.

[finfan7]

Try transparent polyurethane spray finish.  A few thin coatings would do it.

[Obediah]

I've got to try that.

[greenbean]

You could try wax. If you can get a soft wax, such as surfboard or hockey wax (called sex wax), then you could make it glossy.

[Obediah]

Can you paint wax?

[greenbean]

Maybe if you melt it. I would just rub it on. If it is to rough after that, blow hot air at it to soften and smoothen it. Try this on something unimportant though because I haven't tried them.