Newspaper Snakes: Choosing a Look

Video Transcript

"So now that you are painting your snake you are faced with the decision with how to paint him. You could do a couple of different things. We could do a realistic approach with different colored greens, maybe some yellows and some browns and go for a more realistic looking snake or we could get kind of funky and start to add some really fun colors and that is the way I like to do it because it is kind of a really anything goes and so we are going to get really creative and we are going to continue painting our snake and use all kinds of bright colors, maybe some pinks and purples and yellows. We want to remember that in between our colors we want to wash out our brush so have some water handy and dry out your paint brush after you rinse it out because once you get water on your snake, newspaper; we have to remember that, it's going to get soggy. So I think we'll take a fantasy approach for this snake. We could start him off green but let's make him a little more interesting maybe with some pink polka dots. We want to do a base coat and then we are going to start on the pink polka dot part. We don't really need to wait until this base coat is dry, we'll just keep going."