Painting Halloween tombstones

I've gotten a few requests to make a video of how I make my styrofoam tombstones look so old. I show how to paint cracks and the epitaph, tea-staining, drybrushing and other color details. Finish up with how to add moss accents. See my other video, "Building Halloween Tombstones" for contruction directions. I also have many picture tutorials at my home forum at HalloweenForum . com. My member name is Terra and the tutorials are in my albums.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Halloween
• tombstone
• tombstones
• graveyard
• gravestone
• prop
• drybrushing
• tea-staining
• moss
• styrofoam

[scully33]

Re: "I made a mistake in the wording on my Painting Tombstones video. Can you catch it?" Is it the murmured word? I just assumed you wrote it in some old English way that was correct for the time and it wasn't actually a mistake. (If that is actually it, I mean) The only other thing is that lichen is pronounced like lie-kin and not litch-en but that's not on the tombstone so I'm guessing that's not it. I love your tutorials, all of them are top notch!

[Scaryladyvideos]

@scully33 That was it. That's how I missed it too. I first screwed it up but everytime I saw it thought it was okay because it looked like Old English. In regards to Lichen, hee! Yep, that's the Chicagoan in me. Say it the way it's spelled. heh.

[HalloweensMyLife]

Can i ask how long you have been able to store unused monster mud?

[Scaryladyvideos]

@HalloweensMyLife Surprisingly a long time. I had one batch for two years. Just have to mix it up again :)

[Garother]

i would write: "here lies chuck because he is dead."

[Scaryladyvideos]

@Garother heh :)

[Scaryladyvideos]

@thepartypros Nope, because you'll be painting over it with Drylok. If you check out my 'Grime up Props video' you will see me use different colors of monster mud for all kinds of other things. It's like a prop maker's favorite material :)

[thepartypros]

Does it really matter what color paint you use? This concept is pretty interesting! WOW! I have tons of drywall compound and colors of paint.... Before I waste it I will wait to find out about the paint color... (I did buy 1 gallon of dark gray for the wording and cracks on the tomb. I should have enough left over even from that to use for the M Mud...

[Scaryladyvideos]

@thepartypros You make it. It's about 5 parts drywall compound and 1 part latex paint. That's a thick monster mud. Bear in mind that you can add more paint to the mix to make it thinner if you want. That ratio is changeable. Sometimes like to use a 4 to 1 ratio even 3 to 1 ratio when it needs to be thinner. If you get a bucket of the stuff, be sure to also get a drywall mixer drill bit because it's very hard to mix by hand. Full name is Sheetrock All-purpose Drywall Joint Compound.

[thepartypros]

Mark (partypros) once again! The graves are cut etc. They are looking really GREAT! Anyways I had a quick question before I paint.... The MONSTER MUD, where can I get that? IS that something I could get at home depo/lowes? I didnt wanna walk in there and ask for that and they look at me like I just told them I was Jesus or something.... LOL! (I put some decor wood stuff on and I wanna make it look more natural at some edges and I think that would do the trick before the dryloc... THANK YOU!