Plywood Boars painted at Taurus Crafts summer 2008 workshop programme.

5 boars, 5 workshops.

Zebra skin boar painted in Green Paint Gloss

Paint thrown direct from tin, splatted using balloons, splatted and poured, using reject emulsion paint.

Not all clothes escaped the workshop.

This boar was painted using Green Paint interior emulsion, using different mark making techniques from ranging from hands, forks, sticks and paint brushes.

This ID boar was painted using Dulux exterior emulsion. It includes hand and finger prints, clothing fragment, signed name, self portrait, and trim of hair of all the painters.

The question is which paint will survive the elements best. It's the first time I've used Green Paints and was impressed at how hard it was to get off my hands so I'm very hopeful. The price difference between Dulux's petro chemical paint and Green Paint's soya oil derivitive paints has never been smaller. I shall also prepare another boar using Dulux gloss,  I'll update here giving durability reports if I remember.

Autumn 2010. The boar have all survived the two years + remarkably well. The main damage has been the thick ply I used for the back legs as a counter balance has started to split, I might have accidently used an interior grade. To my surprise the masonary paint shows little colour fade and is holding onto the wood well, so too with the Green Paint and Dulux glosses. The boar painted in interior Green Paint emulsion shows quite strong colour fade, but that's not surprising since it has been outside, it has held onto the wood well though.

The boar splatted in reject emulsion is holding onto the ply, and showing little colour fade. It was an interior grade German emulsion I believe. It is very hard on hands bringing me out in skin rashes so extra care needs to be used when using it, but, it seems to be well robust.