Sanding And Painting The Stargazer Man Made with Paper Mache Clay

The Stargazer Man is based on the face of a stargazer fish, so, naturally, he's weird. But I'm starting to like him. The faux bronze paint helped. Sanding him helped, too.

I never sand paper mache clay, but I was in a real hurry when I made him, and I got sloppy.

My favorite new recipe for paper mache clay:    • Best Paper Mache Clay Recipe - Use An...  
How the Stargazer Man's armature was made:    • 💫 Sculpting Stargazer Man - Part 1, t...  
The mannequin pattern I used when sculpting him: https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/ma...

More links to things I mentioned in the video. (Some of them are affiliate links.) If I forgot any, please let me know:

Read Alan's 'Introduction to the Stargazer' on this page: https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/pa...
The echidna tutorial: https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/ma...
The piggy bank tutorial: https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/pa...
To see all of the old posts on my site, scroll to the bottom of the sitemap: https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/si...
There are over 2,000 posts on my site, so you'll need scroll a long way down. 😊
Metallic acrylic paints: https://amzn.to/4cCjbIN
1/4" sanding detailer https://amzn.to/3VL8rB4
Small sanding kit https://amzn.to/3zmZ3wb
bronze deer    • Paper Mache Animals - Easy Bronze Coa...  
Sculpt Nouveau metal coatings https://sculptnouveau.com/products/me...
insta360 go3 (my tiny new camera): https://amzn.to/3VWK0lz
Metallic rub-on colors (I finally found them on amazon): https://amzn.to/3XGBw3a
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Acrylic varnish: https://amzn.to/3VYTsFc

And you can find over 30 sculpture and mask patterns, including the ones behind me in the video, here: https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/pa...

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:54 Letting the chickens out
3:00 Detail sanding tools
4:54 Adding a coat of acrylic gesso
5:40 The first coat of metallic paint - 'metallic bronze'
6:26 Second coat of paint - 'champagne gold'
6:52 Adding a black glaze to bring out details
8:26 Adding highlights with 'splendid gold'
8:50 Adding coat of Ultra Matte varnish
9:23 Adding more highlights with rub-on metallic wax 'bright gold'
11:14 Painting is finished
11:55 Alan's 'Stargazer Introduction' story
12:31 Conclusion and suggestions