Breathe

Today's task for breathe was breaking down - taking the miniature plastazote spades and rakes that I vac formed and cut out yesterday and making them look old and rusted. I acheved this through first spraying them with stone effect paint in patches to make them look as if they had been abandoned on the beach. I then used a mix of black, brown, red and yellow acrylic paint, mixed with PVA glue, to achieve a rusted effect. I used this in patches to make it look more realistic, putting the 'rust' on the bends and edges primarilly as if water had collected or it had been placed on a damp surface allowing rust to form.