Death to Yoshi

On my last post and on my twitter, which I like to use to post silly things about my days, I have been hinting about my latest art project. As I said before, I bought a vinyl figure from work on a whim and decided to spice it up a little. I bought this sweet 9" yoshi figure for about 9 dollars after employee discount. I had bought a pink one the day before but didn't quite love the blue one as much.

Once I decided on a theme, I painted him solid white so that I could do anything I please with him.

It took about three coats of white acrylic paint, with no color showing through when I was done.

 Next I turned him a dark green, to look much more like real Yoshi.

Next I gave him bruises, dark patches, and other skin discolorations. 

And then the fun began.

I added some over all creepy and zombie-ness.



And here is my finished result. I have to say this is the most fun I've had on an art project in so long. I'm almost sad for it to be done.







If anyone, or anyone you know, is interested in purchasing a vinyl figure like this one, I will be making another soon. Please email me at diamondinthedark-smacko *at* hotmail *dot* com.

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline

Apartment Dreams and Creepy toys

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing super great :) We've been doing very well lately, living in bliss together. Work is turning out for the best for us, we both received our much needed promotions in the last few weeks! Now we both make commission and can really afford a new place! So for the next few weeks we'll be saving up for deposits and looking even harder at the places we have our hearts set on. We're going to have a two bedroom apartment to stretch out in, we're so cramped right now! The most exciting part about having a two bedroom is the second bedroom will be our art/computer room, so he can game all he wants and I can get back into sewing. I can't wait to share with you our new adventures!

Right now I'm hard at work on a new painting project. I bought a vinyl toy/doll at work and am hard at work repainting it to be a little.... creepier.  But that's all I'll say! I'll post my steps when it's all done, I can't wait to finish it!

A few things I love this week:

• Being IRL friends with Samantha of Everything in Between, we are penpals and text all the time! She's the cutest.
• Apartment day dreams! We go to stores and talk about all the cute things we'd get to make our new place home.
• Acrylic Paint
• Animal Crossing: City Folk
• William, my sweet sweet Mister.

I hope you're all doing well! What's new with you?

Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline