Kookaburra on Antenna
MATERIALS
Board
• For my support, I used a 4mm thick MDF board (Medium Density Fibreboard), which sells as a large sheet from a hardware store
• Box-cutter
• Steel rule
• Cutting mat (to cut the MDF board)
• 6cm wide house paint brush for under-coating the board
• ‘Primer-Sealer-Undercoat’ house paint
• 35mm long x 25mm wide Taklon synthetic bristle Brush for the final coats
• Fine sponge sandpaper to lightly sand between each coat
Layout
• Camera, with a 70-210mm lens, to photograph the subject close-up
• Computer with a ‘photo-altering’ program, like Photoshop
• 2B pencil and a sheet of Bank layout paper, for drawing the cartoon on
• Stencils, ruler and a compass are useful for drawing the geometric shapes
• Soft grey lead pencil, or coloured chalk, to shade the back of the cartoon for tracing
Brushes
• The first brush I used was the ‘airbrush’ with acrylic paint, diluted with water, to a consistency of milk. The airbrush head sizes were ‘L’ large head for the sky and the ‘F’ fine head for the clouds, with an air compressor set at 30psi. • The paint brushes for my oil painting can be any soft bristles, sable or synthetic, just make sure they have a good pointy tip. (Instead of a brush size, I will write the approximate bristles length and width, as different manufacturers have different numbers for the same size brush). • For painting long, straight edges, I used a 25mm long x 1mm wide (25 x 1mm) bristle brush, generally called a script brush. For blending, I use a 15 x 1mm brush, generally called a liner brush and a 10 x 1mm brush. • If a just painted area needs softening, or the texture flattened, I• An angular brush 5 x 3mm is useful to wipe away overlapped paint.
