Painting - materials & base coat

After some research I settled on using Liquitex Soft Body artists acrylic paints. These have an excellent lightfastness grade, and the range includes things like gesso primer, airbrush meduim and varnishes.


To spray large areas I use a Yama spray gun, and for finer details an Olympos SP-B airbrush.



I initially sprayed the whole statue with a white gesso to prepare the surface for painting, and then applied a custom-mixed base stone colour.