Lots of pix of finishing touches to artifacts

Please excuse the fuzzy camera shots. It's all I have to work with.

I thought these looked too shiny. 

I liked the way my "feldspar" turned out.
My "malachite" was waaaaay too shiny and weird-looking. Pretty, though.

Here, you can see how the darkening turned out on the "shale." Had to do that to make them not so human waste-like.

Want to see how I changed the shiny green things into 

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THIS?

I used THIS!!!!!

It's a dirt dobber nest. If you crush it up, you get nice sand. Since I was sick, it was icy cold, and I hadn't left my apt all week, I looked out my apt door. Lo And  Behold! A nice little package of art supplies left for my by my friendly neighborhood flying creature. I crushed it up and pressed it into the paint as I fixed my way too green and shiny malachite artifacts.


This is not a great pic, but the feldspar I was trying to copy is on the right.

Here, I am holding a piece of sandstone that I was using for my guide for the "shale" artifacts.
I thought the "feldspar" made the symbols of my artifacts too obscure. So, I darkened the recessed parts.

Okay. All I need is the display case now . . . I think.