arxo
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Hello all,
Continuing my experimentations with oils I decided to give this excellent bust a try and paint it in black and white. I always liked the idea to paint something in grey tones, since this way I think one can focus on volume and not color (and because I suck on colors...;-p). On the other hand I always bring to my mind's eye the famous black and white photograph of him. Also, following the advice of other painters I had a dry box built, but perhaps it's small, since it's 20cmx20cmx20cm and the distance from the resin bust and the lamp is close to 5-6cm. PF member megroot gave me some advice on this matter and I thank him for his time. Fearing that I might damage the bust somehow, I alter the times in and out of the box between perhaps 30' to 45' in and 5' minutes out. I think most of the gloss from the face is gone (it's hard to tell in the following pictures), but for the chest not so much , perhaps due to the fact that I used a medium in the oil paint that improves (says in the label) the flow of the paint.
My approach to the painting was to use photoshop and alter the image of the box art (desaturated it) with a paint dubs filter to give me an idea of the light dark / areas, and added a value string of white-black tones for reference. Having that as a guide I try to match the areas correctly and blend the oils.
A word of caution: If you print this image then some alteration of the greys may occur due to printer settings!. Also depending on the monitor settings the image may seem yellowish. I use it as a refererence and not trying to match exactly the colors on the print.
It is an approach more oriented towards fine-art portrait paintings and is something worth trying I think. I will keep probably the greenish tint on the jacket or a mutated orange for the cigar. And definetely a red star!
I am using Titanium White, Ivory Black (which gives a blue-ish kind of tint) and a touch of Yellow Ochre Pale.
You can see the pictures below. On the value string (with 9 being black and white being one) and starting from dark to light I would say that the images you see fall around 6.
@megroot : This bust marks my 10th figure (yippeee!). A couple of years ago when I joined PF, megroot was kind enough to praise my first figures and he said : 'If this are your first figures, then I wonder how the outcome is of your 10 th.'. So, I hope you like what you see and how it comes along...Stay tuned...
A request: Knowing and having read all the comments and the debate about that particular bust when Historia Miniatures released it, I would appreciate all of you who bother to comment and critique, to please refer to my painting skills and let's not start another political debate on the subject.
Thank you all very much. I will post more pictures soon, since I have already laid the next layers yesterday and I keep going towards the light... ;-p
Continuing my experimentations with oils I decided to give this excellent bust a try and paint it in black and white. I always liked the idea to paint something in grey tones, since this way I think one can focus on volume and not color (and because I suck on colors...;-p). On the other hand I always bring to my mind's eye the famous black and white photograph of him. Also, following the advice of other painters I had a dry box built, but perhaps it's small, since it's 20cmx20cmx20cm and the distance from the resin bust and the lamp is close to 5-6cm. PF member megroot gave me some advice on this matter and I thank him for his time. Fearing that I might damage the bust somehow, I alter the times in and out of the box between perhaps 30' to 45' in and 5' minutes out. I think most of the gloss from the face is gone (it's hard to tell in the following pictures), but for the chest not so much , perhaps due to the fact that I used a medium in the oil paint that improves (says in the label) the flow of the paint.
My approach to the painting was to use photoshop and alter the image of the box art (desaturated it) with a paint dubs filter to give me an idea of the light dark / areas, and added a value string of white-black tones for reference. Having that as a guide I try to match the areas correctly and blend the oils.
A word of caution: If you print this image then some alteration of the greys may occur due to printer settings!. Also depending on the monitor settings the image may seem yellowish. I use it as a refererence and not trying to match exactly the colors on the print.
It is an approach more oriented towards fine-art portrait paintings and is something worth trying I think. I will keep probably the greenish tint on the jacket or a mutated orange for the cigar. And definetely a red star!
I am using Titanium White, Ivory Black (which gives a blue-ish kind of tint) and a touch of Yellow Ochre Pale.
You can see the pictures below. On the value string (with 9 being black and white being one) and starting from dark to light I would say that the images you see fall around 6.
@megroot : This bust marks my 10th figure (yippeee!). A couple of years ago when I joined PF, megroot was kind enough to praise my first figures and he said : 'If this are your first figures, then I wonder how the outcome is of your 10 th.'. So, I hope you like what you see and how it comes along...Stay tuned...
A request: Knowing and having read all the comments and the debate about that particular bust when Historia Miniatures released it, I would appreciate all of you who bother to comment and critique, to please refer to my painting skills and let's not start another political debate on the subject.
Thank you all very much. I will post more pictures soon, since I have already laid the next layers yesterday and I keep going towards the light... ;-p
