Agamemnon, the King of Mycenae

[Steve Brodie]

excellent work, love the lions head

 

[Lissorles]

Thank you Lissorles !
In this case, to paint the metallic parts, I followed these stages :

1. a dark brown enamel basecoat
2. gold printer's ink all over the base coat
3. dense oil black shadows to the deepest point, diluted indigo blue to the "border" of black
4. general shadowing on the lower parts using a reddish brown oil colour
5. oil pure gold, a bright one, to highlight the upper surfaces (two and more coats)
6. when everything was dried up, I painted all the metallic surface using a thin layer of "reddish" gold.
7. I covered all the metallic surface with a thin coat of satin varnish.

[Soon, I will upload the pictures of the exact colours I have used.]

Thank you very much for this detailed rundown of how you have not only applied the metallics--which, initially, before you went into details, is all I thought you applied (one basecoat of, say, a Vallejo Metal Color(s)--but also the different stages and techniques you applied. I am not in this hobby for money, but I can easily envision works like yours and others' someday fetching tens of thousands of dollars at auctions. And someday far, far into the future, when the hobby has matured and works like yours are well-preserved like centuries old paintings, fetching hundreds of thousands or even millions. This hasn't happened yet because the hobby is still relatively "new" and isn't given the same prestige as painting on canvas. Anyway! Thanks again for sharing.

 

[Gooner Mike]

Beautiful work well done

 

[Marco22]

every piece seems better than the one before !
this is really excellent work !

 

[Blind Pew]

Excellent painting on display for us, Theodoros. Thanks for sharing your paint/ink formulas as it very helpful.