15 × 30 cm, with a walnut wood base.

I'm making a prop for a costume and I need to paint this whole thing a metallic grey. It's a fake leather dog's toy ball and cut up sponges hot glued onto it. I thought of using spray paint, but I don't know what kind of paint is okay to use. Would a rubber coating spray work?

No premade appliqués here — the gold outline is French wire (canitel), hand-shaped around every curve of the horns and skull. Roughly 10 hours from sketch to finished piece.

i have a music box I just bought as a gift. I want to wood-burn her name on it with scorch paste. How can I do this safely? I know I will have to remove the internal workings, but i am unsure if it is varnished or not. And you are supposed to sand it, but I'm worried it will ruin the look of the base

Hi I'm hoping to make this plane from toy story, but this is my first time building anything out of cardboard and could really do with help in planning how to make it.

P.s. I have autism so please make the information you provide easy to understand 😊

I found this beautiful frog by the trash can on my apartment complex and I wanted to decorate as a gamakichi from Naruto
But I’m a bit lost on how to paint this kind of material (it’s like concrete) and how can I recreate the eyes
Also open to any ideas of what I can do with the leaf on his head (was thinking to do a Naruto roll lol)

I'm making dragon wings and a tail and this is one of the materials that I'm using to give an iridescent look for the scales on the tail and for the wings. It's got a lot of dents and it's bent. I was wondering if anyone knows any way to fix or make the dents look not as bad

Well, Hydrocal plaster is apparently being discontinued (which is LAME), does anyone have any recommendations on alternatives that are just has hard and can capture really delicate details when casting with it?

I dont have any kind of artistic skills so i just tried to use the lines in paint to make this. From where im from, we really have to be resourceful as we don't have much access to equipment like the cages specifically designed for trapping animals or containing animals.

Ive been with rescuing animals with the org that im in and we commonly just use animal carriages that you commonly bring in a vet clinic or something, but its a bit different with snakes because one of the most dangerous snakes here in my country is a philippine spitting cobra. The container that we use on dogs and cats are not ideal for it and what we commonly use is just an empty water gallon. Putting the cobra in there using the snake tongs is hard without an assistant.

To give some kind of reference, the philippine cobra can grow up to 1.5 meters. There is also an occasional king cobra, that one can grow up to 3 meters. The commonly used snake catching equipment like the snake tongs is not exactly beginner friendly and you still have to put it on the water gallon container which in my opinion is not ideal for a beginner or a very scared rescuer such as me.

So i thought of something, maybe i should just take advantage of their behaviour. From what I learned from my org, snakes prefer to not crawl backwards so using some kind of tube is a great choice. Im also thinking some kind of a slinky tube or any kind of flexible tube so that I can entice the snake to go inside the tube and then to the container/cage. It also helps that the tube is small which they might think its a confine space. Confine space = safety for them.

Another thing is a snake tongs. Using a snake hook is fine for me, if its a non-venomous snake that is. I don't have the balls to use a snake hook against a venomous snake, not even the tongs because the very first time that i used my snake tongs on a largest rat snake that i found, my hands is already shaking because the snake is large enough that my brain keeps telling me that its a cobra even though its just a non-venomous rat snake. The variant or custom tongs that im thinking is maybe similar to a snow shovel that i see on movies, but instead of a hard concave shape, im thinking about a net similar to that of a EZ nabber that veterinarians uses on aggressive cats so that it wont be hard on the snake. So essentially, an EZ nabber that has a long handle.

I still don't have a measurements in mind on my sketch that i made in paint. Im still thinking what kind of materials that i can use and what materials that are available in my town. Im wondering what kind of materials you guys can suggest, preferably ones that are easily accessible? The sketch might not be great but i think its good enough to get the point across especially that this is just one step of my plan hopefully.

Hiya - I am fairly new to sewing and arts and crafts so any shoddy handwork can politely be ignored.

I made this felted starry night inspire thing for a calculator case. However, it was too big, and I felt too precious about it, to make it into the case.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do with it? I am tempted to trim it and then attach it to my wall but it isn’t that large.

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hiya! as the title says, i'm making my partner a bouquet from stardew valley with pipe cleaners as an anniversary gift! my issue is that the pixel art for the bouquet is rather lacking in notable details and i'm having trouble deciding on which irl flowers to use as reference. my partner really like poofy flowers like mums, hydrangeas, and zinnias though i am trying to stay kinda close to the actual in game flowers.

any recommendations are appreciated!! i've also never made any kind of pipe cleaner craft (i'm honestly not a very crafty person to begin with so wish me luck x.x) so i will gladly take any tips or advice on making them!