steampunky dino

This is kinda late :). My partner for the IKEA mirror swap received quite a bit ago. I spent an obscene amount of time on the pain, I also learned a new technique for texturing. It's very simple and only has a few steps to make something wood look distressed and ridgy. And you don't have to buy supplies ( if you have white elmer glue on hand)! Basically:
you sand down the wood (optional) paint it a darker color than what you want the top coat to be,
let it dry, then you mix 10% water with elmers glue, sponge it on in the direction of the grain of the wood, let dry, then you paint it a shade lighter, let dry and then seal/glaze (optional)
The results!:





The whole thing:


My partner likes steampunk so I went with the gear theme, I really love the final results, my only tiny thing I dislike was the way the sealer/gloss set kinda gloopy, next time I will be thining it down with water. ( excuse the dirty mirror I took these pictures before I cleaned it up.)

I also made this little dino with some left over polymer clay, this is my first really made object...




For scale:



His new home on my books:


His little bow is also made out of purple polymer. I think he came out cute minus his burnt feets. <3

<3 W