WIP Critique Vincent van Gogh - 1:10 Limbo Miniatures

Marcin Morawski · Feb 8, 2020

Hello, folks.
As part of calming the nerves damaged by painting the bust of Bernardo O'Reilly (I hate shading blue), I took care of this bust.
In the bubble envelope I found a string bag with two parts of the bust in it. Gray-blue resin, very hard. Mold lines in unimportant places.

My work so far... The sculpture of the jacket is very simple in form, even boring, you can say, so I decided to practice painting by hand. I could use the decal but I would lose 80% of the fun. Or maybe even 100%?

Of course, the pattern is not an exact picture of Starry Night, but probably everyone will know what's going on.
I planned another well-known painting on Vincent's back. I pre-sketched, but I'm wondering if I should repaint it and put a grid on the image and on the bust. The picture could be more accurate.

I hope you will like it.

Cheers, Marcin.

Nap · Feb 8, 2020

Hi Marcin

That's great the painting of Starry night looks great and I love the idea for the back ......a grid might work easier for you

So many options to paint

Think I "might" be tempted to paint out the sides in black ..possibly more impact visually ...but I see what your aiming for here with yours

Do look forward to seeing more on this

Happy benchtime

Nap

NeilW · Feb 8, 2020

A novel approach that could work well.

As Nap says, a grid would work but you'll have to decide how to allow for the distortion of the curved back vs the flat canvas.

RiP Kirk... Lust for Life was always one of my favourite films.

Gary_81 · Feb 8, 2020

Really creative and imaginative way of painting this bust. For me your sketch on the back seems spot on and maybe if you try to be to precise and use a grid you will lose that uneven Van Gogh style.

Gary

yellowcat · Feb 8, 2020

Henk · Feb 8, 2020

I like this sculpt, the likenes is very good. Your paint is coming on very nicely too. Looking forward to see it finished.

Marcin Morawski · Feb 8, 2020

Thanks guys for the feedback, I appreciate and took courage to continue working.
A window and a picture in a yellow frame - these will be my reference points:

Marcin.

Teapot Miniatures · Feb 9, 2020

Very nice bust and excellent painting so far. Very smart idea to paint it this way

Marcin Morawski · Feb 9, 2020

Yes, I know, the position of pillows

. To be Vincent van Gogh is not piece of cake. But believe me, I'm doing my best.

M.

Nap · Feb 9, 2020

Marcin

This is great to see it come alive , your doing a cracking job on this and its going to look the tops when complated

Dont forget to enter our FOTM as well !!!

Happy benchtime

Nap

Marcin Morawski · Feb 12, 2020

Well, I think the jacket is ready. I just wonder how to separate the collar from the rest of the back. Line with drakenhof nightshade, as in other places? I would not like to paint over the details.

Nap · Feb 13, 2020

Hi Marcin

That looks GREAT , well done on the painting(s) front and back

As for the collar perhaps line in on the blue rather than the details ?

Look forward to more on this

Happy benchtime

Nap

Peapot · Feb 13, 2020

Looks good.

I too have Bernardo to paint from the 7, will look forward to seeing it, do you have any of the other 7 done? Michael

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Marcin Morawski · Feb 13, 2020

Peapot said:
do you have any of the other 7 done? Michael

This is my third. I make them in order of appearances.

Marcin Morawski · Feb 15, 2020

I tried to paint some vangogh-dots on the face. Shoot, I think it's dead end

Gary_81 · Feb 15, 2020

I think what you are doing is trying to achieve a very set style so it can't be judged as a ordinary bust, it's also a very brave step to take and try something so different. For me so far it's working very well and I'm really getting the feel of Van Gogh's artwork in your piece.

Gary

Nap · Feb 16, 2020

Hi Marcin

Gary raises a couple of good points , I see what your trying to get , certainly not an easy option but I reckon you should keep at it ...perhaps choose a different colour pallette for the face

Look forward to updates

Happy benchtime

Nap

Marcin Morawski · Feb 16, 2020

Gary, Kev, thank you for your support. I think I know where the problem is...

Nap said:
...perhaps choose a different colour pallette for the face

...or, maybe, I should re-paint the hair and beard. At the beginning I planned to make it in more comic/cartoon style. Now, no matter how I light up this face, it will always be too dark compared to hair and beard. I also need to make something with the eyebrows, I'll make them less explicit.

Gary_81 · Feb 16, 2020

It looks like maybe the shadows on the hair and the face need some green added to them as they seem to have that sea green undertone in the painting. Also the hair has more brown in it while the beard is the vibrant ginger and the eyebrows are more a faint pink ginger colour. Separating these three sections into there respective colour tones I think will really work well as at the moment your hair, beard and eyebrow have a similar colour to them all. One last thing it looks like the highlights on the painting have a sickly pale colour with maybe some white or a cream or yellow in them on the skin.
Like I said before a very interesting thing you are trying to achieve and I think just experiment and play around. On something like this there isn't really a right or a wrong way to do it.

Gary

Marcin Morawski · Feb 16, 2020

Gary_81 said:
...

It's always good to hear a wise man.

Pale gray and agrax earthshade

Gary_81 said:
On something like this there isn't really a right or a wrong way to do it

Howgh!

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