Home Plate ProcessI thought you might like to see how I create your Great American Home Plate. 1. First I start with a blank, mini home plate. These babies look and feel just like a real home plate except that they are five inches across. ______________________________ 2. A pencil is used to create the life like drawing of Duke Snider's face. ______________________________ 3. The action drawing of Duke hitting a home run at Ebbets Field is then added. ______________________________ 4. I then slowly and carefully paint in the colors with small paint brushes and acrylic paints. ______________________________ 5. Here you can see that I penciled in what is going to be the background. ______________________________ 6. The dirt, the batter's box and the grass have been painted. ______________________________ 7. Next, I painted the dugout, the wall and bunting and also the "I" beams that no one wanted to sit behind. ______________________________ 8. Finally I painted the crowd in the grandstands. This particular step takes the most time to complete. And there you have it. When I'm finished, the home plate gets a final inspection. I take some time to take a good look around to make sure nothing was missed or painted in-correctly. And here's the final Great American Home Plate. I create my Great American Baseballs pretty much the same way. But the baseballs have six different sides to paint and the surface is round.
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