I used Three natural colours. First, Two Carrots water boiled for 5 or 10 minutes, one mashed tomato, and three red onions water boiled for 5,10 or 15. I used carrots, tomatoes, and red onions to focus on octopus’ actual colours. Initially, I tried to use red onions, avocado’s skin and carrots Beetroot. Online, when I boil avocado’s skin in water, I can get violet colour water. However, when I tried to cook the avocado skin, I could get just green water. So, I changed avocado to tomato.
Then, it results from three coats of water on the wood.
- Carrots were tinged with so many light colours. Also, the smell was so bad.
2. Tomatoes colour was tinged with orange hues, which was interesting. The colour was better than expected. However, the tomatoes smell was so many terrible. So, I didn’t use it.
3. Red onion water boiled for 5 minutes had the most watercolour-like colour, and water boiled for 15 minutes had the reddest colour. Red onion water boiled for 15 minutes showed the most satisfactory colour as expected.
I focused on two colours, 15 boiled red onion and mashed tomatoes. The mashed tomatoes also gave a nice orange colour, but I decided to use a red onion colour similar to my purpose.
After painting the colour, I realized late that watering wood could corrode it. So, as you can see, some of the wood pieces were rotten. However, I’m distraught, but I think the problem was caused by my lack of common sense and skill.
However, the Funny thing is that rotten wood makes it looks like a real octopus’s skin, I think.
This is the process of making.