'Alas' By Brokentoad

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Jay-BFG

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Here's my latest off the bench, Alas by Brokentoad.

Painted in oils over acrylics and enamels.

It was a joy to paint, although I shouldn't have fixed her arm on beforehand.

The colour choice was from a picture posted up on FB in Bust@

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cheers for looking, all comments welcome.
 
Very good! You've rendered the female face and skin tone really well.

Would you share how you accomplished the effect on the hair / wig? Its nice and subtle and much like something I am trying to accomplish on a figure I'm working on.

THX

Bob
 
Yep they are sideways, but can still see the great paintwork in the figure, very nice.

Chris

Chris, thanks, I have no idea why they come out sideways, this is the only site that does it.

B
Very good! You've rendered the female face and skin tone really well.

Would you share how you accomplished the effect on the hair / wig? Its nice and subtle and much like something I am trying to accomplish on a figure I'm working on.

THX

Bob

Bob, thanks.
I'll try and put something together later for you, but I mainly just keep painting and trying stuff till I'm happy.
 
Very good! You've rendered the female face and skin tone really well.

Would you share how you accomplished the effect on the hair / wig? Its nice and subtle and much like something I am trying to accomplish on a figure I'm working on.

THX

Bob


Right, a bit of time to think and put down what I did with the hair.

first of all I primed with Halfords White, then made a dark blue colour using W&N Paynes Grey and a little white (W&N Paynes Grey is very blue), I used a bit of this colour and thinned it with artist white spirit (I find this less aggressive than standard stuff), I used this as a wash to get into all the fine detail.
Once dry I then used the same colour neat and put in the shadows. Allow to dry (I think I may have used a wash of Burnt Umber into the deepest shadows)
I then drybrushed a very fine amount of burnt Umber (this was a fortunate mistake as the brush I used to dust off contained some burnt umber which I didn't realise until too late)
Then came a selective wash of Magenta to add a bit of variance, Allow to dry.
Then to tie it all in I used a wash of titanium white. Allow to dry
Afterwards I picked out highlights with neat Titanium white.

I think that was basically it, but as I said, I just keep adding and painting until I'm happy

Hope that is of some use
 
Cheers Andrew,

Managed to sort it out (see original post) as per other thread, thanks again
 
Hi Jsy

Had the pleasure to review this , a great sculpt particularly the hair IMO

Line your clothing colour combination here looks really good together

Thanks for sharing

Nap
 
Thanks for taking the time to recall and share your technique. I know that I rarely record what I am doing while painting. Like you, I just keep going until it looks good or until I give up and turn to stripping paint - a subject at which I excel! Then when I want to recreate the effect or someone asks how I achieved something I am not always certain. You've given me a good set of steps to begin with. Much appreciated!

R/

Bob
 
Hi Jsy

Had the pleasure to review this , a great sculpt particularly the hair IMO

Line your clothing colour combination here looks really good together

Thanks for sharing

Nap
Cheers Kev,
Do you get sent all this stuff to review, or do you have big wallet?
 
Thanks for taking the time to recall and share your technique. I know that I rarely record what I am doing while painting. Like you, I just keep going until it looks good or until I give up and turn to stripping paint - a subject at which I excel! Then when I want to recreate the effect or someone asks how I achieved something I am not always certain. You've given me a good set of steps to begin with. Much appreciated!

R/

Bob
Your welcome Bob,

Great stuff

Cheers Samson
 
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