Finn's Carousel Portrait

[Nanno]

Thanks! I really enjoyed the painting part of this project. The scraping, sanding, peeling part not so much. I wish it were easier in the photos to tell the difference between the highlights from the gloss coating and the white speckles on Finn's face. I really had fun painting his little pink nose. I had to start over several times because it came out too pink, or the dots on it came out too black. Finn has a little "Hitler mustache" and trying to replicate it without making his statue look like "Der Fuehrer" was kind of tricky. I really had to tone down the colors on his muzzle from how he actually looks like in real life because when I tried to copy Finn's colors exactly the initial impression was "Pink Hitler!"

As I was in the midst of this project I realized that the legs of this goat look like a horse's legs and hooves. The hooves are round and solid. So I started toying with the idea of getting a dremel tool and resculpting the whole thing. I could completely reshape the hooves, but if I did that I would also be tempted to take out a lot of the long, curly hair and make it smooth-coated like Finn. Once I started thinking about all the possibilities I immediately sprayed on the primer and went to painting before I opened up Pandora's Box or ended up ruining a perfectly good goat sculpture. I drew the splits in the hooves with black paint and it looks good enough to me!