Latex

As suggested by one of my tutors I took some photos of trees and another tutor suggested I could paint latex, so I thought I would put the two together and do some latex trees.

Some experments with latex

Applied three layers of latex to a smooth surface (which was first sprinkled with some talcum powder to prevent sticking) when this was dry I painted it with a pallet knife

I had to do a lot of these as I wanted a little forest I did 16 and these are about 5ft tall but the stink of the latex was nauseous did some at home as well, nearly asphyxiated everyone

Well, I hung up my latex trees on two circular supports I liked the way the light shines through the latex showing the bark like paint effect

               Used some silver tin foil to make leaves/stagalactites used spotlights and a fan to blow

These trees were 5ft tall, I just thought (when it was too late) I should have gotten a small girl dressed like a wood nymph to walk in and around them , I also thought about getting a dry ice machine but the cheepest one I could find was in Maplin and that was €50