The whole thing starts with two coats of the drylock. For me, I accidentally bought the white stuff, so I asked home depot to color it up for me. Two rounds of darkening and it was good to go. I also added a bunch of dirt to the pain to give it more texture.

Coat the whole thing from head to toe with the drylock. For the little areas, make sure you use your smaller art brush to really shove that drylock into all the little spots. Give that 24 hours to dry between each coat.

Next is your weathering. I took a mason jar with a lid and mixed up some brown and black acrylic. Once I had a nice color that wasn't just completely black, you add a lot of water to make it runny. I mixed it up in the mason jar so that I can reseal it and keep using it over and over again. Otherwise you have to throw away your mix. The key here is to add lots of the runny paint in a lot of different coats. Patience. You need patience. It goes on dark and dries lighter. Thats ok too, you can build up the color over time. Do a few layers and let it dry full to see how it looks. Make sure you are letting it drip down from the right areas too. It's gonna bead up on the high spots and the drip down from there and the cracks.

Next you want to use more black, but a little watered down to get into the deep recesses of the cracks and between the letters. This isn't as watered down as the previous weathering. This is almost full strength paint. In a lot of places, I would paint in the black and then wet the brush and just smudge it around. That made it feel much more organic. It also gives it the drama and contrast you would expect in a creepy tombstone. Don't forget to move around your tombstone and to flip it around a bit to make sure you get to every angle.

Next you can add your color. I only added green to this, but you could add green, brown and even some whites to make it pop. I used more of a dry brush technique here. I would put on just a little bit of the green and then smudge it around using the brush or my hands or a paper towel. You don't want to go crazy with it here. just enough to get the point across and add some color.