Disney Paint Night

We had so much fun at the last paint night Nicole decided we should do it again except this time Disney!  Everyone was pretty stoked.  Me, on the other hand, had no idea what Disney character I wanted to paint.  I wondered if we could do non Disney painting so I ran it by Nicole.  She said as long as we can make a stencil of it sure!

I chose Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon. I figured he would be an easy silhouette with a moon and a night sky similar to the one we did a few weeks ago. I made sure to find the perfect Toothless for my painting.  I grabbed some chips and salsa to bring for a snack to share with the group too.

Tigs decided to say hi to us for a bit.

Nicole had it set up like the last time, the really awesome Fred Meyer bag table cloth, the various colors of paint and our canvas.  She helped me get my Toothless stencil made and we unpacked our snacks and set them on the kitchen island.  We waited until everyone got there.  This time there were six of us painting whatever Disney/cartoon painting we wanted to do.  Lindsay chose a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cut out, Nicole did a Edna off of The Incredibles, Sarah did a Alice in Wonderland picture, Suzanne did a painting with Lilo and Stitch and Cheyanne did a different Alice and Wonderland painting. 

We got to it!

I started with a background.  I wanted it to be lighter at the bottom and progressively blend it darker to black at the top.  It actually turned out pretty good even though I thought I added too much white to it in certain spots.  It kinda gave it a "cloudy" look.

I took it to the star box and splatted it with white from the bristles of a toothbrush.

It was time for the moon so I asked Nicole for some advice on how to go about it.  She asked how big I wanted the moon to be.  I found the right sized circle and traced it with chalk.  She said the chalk was easy to remove once I was done with it.  I painted my circle white and then added some craters to it with a gray and teal color.

Next I decided where I wanted my Toothless and outlined the stencil with his body and wings and then painted him in with black.  I used red for his broken tail flag.

Then I added some highlights and some minor details so you could tell he was Toothless and then got a group picture after we were all done.  We had to wait a while for Lindsay because her stencil took a really long time to cut out with an X-acto knife.

We helped Nicole clean up a little bit and we all sealed our paintings with some clear coating.  We picked up our stuff and took the rest of our snacks home with us.  We thanked her for hosting and getting all the supplies together and headed home.  I had some laundry and cleaning up to do.

Next Adventure:  Danny's 1st Birthday Party, Two Geocaches and Visiting Ben's Mom