Weird Request

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For my honors art appreciation class in college, my final exam is to make a personal collage about me, without being pictures of me. Naturally, I'm including a nice big reptile section. Now, I would love to tack on one of Rosca's [first snake, my big girl] skins to the board, but the heifer always rips hers, and won't be shedding again in time. Is there any sort of non-toxic, safe ink / paint or something I can put on her belly and get kind of an "ink stamp" to show size, and then wash off? Or, do you have alternative ideas? If I can't do it it's fine, but I'm just brainstorming for my project.

Hmm I had to really think about that one. It would be really cool for scrapbooking. I thought maybe children's non toxic washable hand paint, watered down to the consistancy you need. Can find it at Parent Teacher Aid stores. Anyone got any other suggestions?

I believe something non-toxic and water washable that is safe for children or babies is also safe for pets. The only thing is you may have some trouble finding an ink pad large enough for your BP :P

The crayola finger paint. It's non toxic and washable. I use it with my son all the time.

Kind of a genius idea if you can find the right paint for it! I would think the washable finger paint would be a good texture for it. Good luck! Would love to see a pic when you're done.


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Why no just hodge podge pieces of a shed in random places?

When's the deadline?

My YB is starting a shed cycle right now. She'll most likely shed out in a whole piece. I could send it to you if you'd like.

I'm picturing that if you put paint on the snake and try to stamp it on the paper, by the time you're done wrestling the paint on it it's gonna wiggle as soon as it hits the paper and smear.

Hodge podge the shed might be your best bet - or if your timeline isn't tight, ask someone here for a 1 piece shed. I'm sure someone would help out.

why not make a silly putty mould or something? you can let that dry and its solid as a rock.

I have a few snakes that are going to shed. When do you need it by?

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Use food dye. Totally non-toxic and probably the easiest to wash off.

What I would do is dip your snake in a food dye bowl, then put her on a large piece of white paper and there you have it! Then just was her off and call it a day.

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Interesting ideas, I'm going to try to figure out what I'm going with tonight. The project is due Thurday; I was going to use these couple of days to plan then work on it up til then. I don't know if the mailing big would work in time, though I do appreciate everyone who offered their skins (:

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Originally Posted by DestinyLynette

Stay with me here.

For my honors art appreciation class in college, my final exam is to make a personal collage about me, without being pictures of me. Naturally, I'm including a nice big reptile section. Now, I would love to tack on one of Rosca's [first snake, my big girl] skins to the board, but the heifer always rips hers, and won't be shedding again in time. Is there any sort of non-toxic, safe ink / paint or something I can put on her belly and get kind of an "ink stamp" to show size, and then wash off? Or, do you have alternative ideas? If I can't do it it's fine, but I'm just brainstorming for my project.

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Why not Food Coloring? Its non-toxic, washable, and should be safe as can be i'd imagine no?

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Ah Misha had the idea first....my bad =P

Make sure to send us a picture of how it comes out*

I wouldn't use food colouring. That stuff will stain whatever your gal wiggles on, including the carpet or counter if she gets away while you're "stamping" her.

At the zoo we use non-toxic children's paint, dip their bellies into it, then let them slither around on a large piece of paper. If you use two primary colours, like red on the first half of her belly and yellow on the second, you'll get some really cool colour mixing effects.

The fun part will be wrestling her down into submission while I paint her up :P Oh, also, I'm going to TRY to use tissue paper to make a textured 3-D pop-up section of Dippy's tail. (: I'll post it on here when I finish the whole thing and give y'all a sum-up of my presentation. Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I'm hitting the craft store tomorrow!

Sounds cool, definitely want to see finished product!

Good luck! Don't forget to show us pictures!

My collage is not done, but I did what I could for my "snake stamp" today... I used nontoxic children's washable finger paint... and naturally she did NOT stay still at any time! I did what I could, take 2 I got a better imprint so now I'm using the back of the posterboard (:

Step one: Dexter my room. [please watch that series if you don't get it.]
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Step Two: Secure your participant.
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Step Three: Attempt to give snake belly paint job despite slithering and doubling over on herself.
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Step Four: Let her botch the first side, flip it over and hope for better.
Step Five: Try to wait until she's in a good enough position, then quickly stamp her down and lift.

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Step Six: Wash snake in sink, pat dry, apologize repeatedly. Return to enclosure.
Step Seven: admire your hand(less) work.

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I'm half tempted to try "snake painting" now. Lol. Would be cool to get a really great print.

That came out great! The scale patterns are really defined.

Next time (or for anyone else interested), try putting all of the paint in a large bowl. Stretch the snake out as much as you can, quickly dip the snake in the paint, and quickly place her on the paper. It's easier than trying to paint the snakes belly, as they can get a little wiggly and get the paint over themselves rather than the paper when you do that.

Hey if elephants can be called genius for painting, why not snakes?

Looks good! :gj:

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Hey if elephants can be called genius for painting, why not snakes?

Looks good! :gj:

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And if elephant paintings sell for thousands of dollars...

Pig paintings sell for quite a bit too! I think theres def a market for snake masterpieces ;)

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