Salt Dough Tutorial

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Painting:

Step One:

This is what your little guys should look like once you take them out of the oven, make sure to let them cool before handling them. Salt dough bunnies are fun, but burns are not. As you can see, I wrote the name of each bun on the parchment paper as I set the bunnies down so that I didn't get them mixed up.

After they are done cooling you are going to want to seal them. As I'm sure you have noticed they are made out of food stuffs which are, sadly, prone to decay. Sealing them keeps nasty things away from them so they don't decay. I use Mod Podge (like in the picture). I use the matte kind instead of the gloss so that the end product isn't shiny. You can also buy spray sealant that is faster, but also messier and bad for your brain. When you seal you want to make sure to get in all the cracks and DON'T FORGET TO PAINT THE BOTTOM!!!! If you don't seal the bottom it will still decay.

Step Two:

While the sealant is drying you can  grab everything else you need for the actual painting. As you can see I have multiple colors of paint (white, 2 shades of grey, 2 shades of cream, 2 shades of brown, and black), a cup of water, and a variety of brushes. I also use paper towels to help clean off the brushes, they are not in the picture.

I use the parchment paper I baked the buns on as a paint tray. It's a good space to mix colors on and makes for very easy clean up.

So next I'm going to paint Herman. As you can see from his lovely photograph on the right he is light grey, with lighter grey around the edge of his ears, chin and front paws. I start out with picking the base color (in this case the light grey) and put a blob of it on the paper where I can get at it easily. I will put the other colors on the paper as I need it to keep it from drying out too quickly.

This is the first coat of paint. You can still see the dough through the paint and the paint is uneven which is why I always do a second layer of paint.

Ahhh, now doesn't that look much better. The paint is still a little wet, which is why it is shiny. Next we add the highlights (like the lighter colors around Herman's chin and ears) eyes and a nose and...

Voila, completed! Then I just need to take 360 photos and here is the final product: