Painting in 3D

Bought thin sheets of balsa wood, cut out shapes, and tried painting them. The paint warped the balsa wood and only one coat made the woodgrain still show through. The shapes were too thin and it would take a lot of work (2 layers maybe?) to make them actually look like “raised shapes made out…

Tried using 6 stacked 1mm sheets of dental wax to make a “paint mold”. Wax worked much better even though it was harder to work with and cut. The acrylic paint was still too thin and takes too many layers to make even the thinnest raised shape. At least 3-4 layers with at least a…

I tried using non-drying mineral clay and regular blue acrylic paint in several layers to make raised shapes on foam core. Layers took forever to dry and the paint shrunk almost completely as it dried. Also the mineral clay stuck to the paint when finally removed and I couldn’t get it off the edges of…