righto its been a while since my last update..but i got loads done...so lets go.
here we see some of the groundwork ill use..the green stuff is a real moss that grows on my back doorstep!.. i sliced it off with a large pallet knife..next to that are some bunches of a wild grass that also grows in the backyard.. i wrapped wire around the ends to keep them together..they tend to get very brittle as they dry..but a soaking in diluted white glue should toughen them up..
these are bristles from a 99p makeup brush..they are a really nice twotone brown and black and will make excellent long grass/river weed it was a thick brush and it gave me plenty of bristles..
i made the tree armature from twisted lengths of copper wire that i salvaged from a load of coax i have in the shed..i borrowed this technique from a book i read..its my first attempt at moddeling a tree i usually dig up sapling roots..also you can see the talus and rock debris. ive added.. again from the backyard..this was fixed in place with white glue
here ive covered the frame of the tree with plaster it takes a while to build up the plaster i dried off every coat with a hairdrier..then added more .it gets painted on with an old housebrush..
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