Make a fossilized Dinosaur Egg

Step 7 Paint and distress the fossil

Spray paint your fossil. Some fossils are a bronze colour, and some are grey and others a a reddish colour, I guess it all depends on the earth present at the time the thing was fossilised. the main thing is to get a base coat down of whatever colour you want and then distress the fossil a bit.

Distressing is easy, all you have to do is paint on a darker contrasting colour and wipe it off as you go. The paint goes into all the cracks and when you wipe it off the raised areas look lighter and the fossil immediately starts to look old. The best bet is to use permanent paint for the base coat, ie either spray or household decorating paint (Emulsion (UK), Latext paint (US)) and let that dry, and then use acrylic watered down very slightly for the distressing so that when you wipe it off you don't end up wiping the base coat off.

A nice project download with the templates is available at dadcandodadcando, so do go along there and while you're there you'll see that there's quite a few other projects like this one to do.

have fun and post any pictures of the fossils you make, the world could do with MORE fossils!

Comments

[Dragon416]

This is really cool. My sons will love giving this a go. Thank you so much for posting this and for taking great pictures.