Good enough to eat

The simplest sculpted pieces are often the hardest to paint. We recently sculpted a four-foot apple for Ramseyer Farms in Ohio. The apple, of course, is smooth and round as an apple should be. The client asked that we make it as realistic as possible. When it came to the paint, we assigned Jay to the task. He has a lot of experience as a fine artist, and I knew he would pull it off with perfection. Typically, our work has a lot of texture, which makes blending and glazing much easier to do. Instead, Jay had to rely purely on his skill. Being bright red, there are more coats than normal to ensure the bright colours will last a long time. With each coat, the apple got better as he experimented with the multi coloured blends. By the last coat of paint, the apple looked good enough to eat.