Well, I got some work done on the Zombie Snowman today, at any rate. A few notes:

1) Corn syrup plus food coloring and a bit of water *does* make a paint-like substance you can use on packed snow, but the snow itself is too fragile to apply much pressure. On the other hand it soaks into the snow a lot less than water does, and so undermines the snow’s integrity less.

2) It takes a *ton* of corn syrup though.

3) Water plus food coloring works better than I remembered, especially for overhangs and hard to reach spots with a brush.

I may try the lime gelatin trick Wednesday; tomorrow is probably a day off the snowman beat because I got corn syrup *everywhere* and need to launder my winter gear, heh. Man that’s sticky.

Pictures follow:

Tags: Zombie Art

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