Anne Bonney

[Bigmick]

Hello all.
Well after a bit of a break I'm back with this offering.
It's the Nuts Planet 1/10 scale Anne Bonney, painted with Vallejo acrylics.


I must admit I really did not enjoy this one, I don't know if it's because I've been away from the bench for so long or that I have to take breaks every half hour to straighten my back out or that after mixing the base tone, shadow and highlight tones I coated her in the shadow mix, I'm blaming the medication, so, I started again and repainted her today, only thing I didn't touch was the eyes.
I had a mojo dip towards the end to the extent that her eyebrow, which I forgot to paint, was drawn in with a watercolour pencil, it'll be rectified before the next show.
Anyhoo, here's some pictures, I kept the colour scheme very basic, blue bandana and purple waistcoat, on a historic note those colours were always reserved for royalty so for a pirate to wear those colours was thumbing their nose at the establishment.
I looked at 18th century clothing and embroidered silk patterns for the waistcoat, you never know I might revisit her for a repaint.









I found a really nice pearl paint as well, I used the interference blue on her pearls rather than pure pearl, it's cracking stuff, I got mine through Atlantis art supplies.


I hope you like, open to any criticism you have, and yes I've noticed the highlights on the eyelids are too bright.

Regards.

Mick

 

[swralph]

Well I like it.
Very nicely painted.

 

[megroot]

perfect work.

Marc

 

[Mike Stevens]

Nicely done

 

[John Bowery]

Great skin tnes.
Cheers
John

 

[phil_h]

Great job, and glad to see another using some Golden paints (I use them for everything)
Phil

 

[Nap]

Nice work mate ...female flesh is hard to not overdo ...you haven't it looks good ..won't mention the eyelids

Like the pearls really effective as are the feathers

If anything I would run a dark wash over the pistol mechanism

Eyebrow ...sure it wasn't an eyebrow pencil ..you had lying around ...wink wink

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[Wayneb]

Nailed another one Mick.....Agree regarding the pistol lock..

Wayne

 

[Seraphim]

Really love the skintone - turns out perfectly.

 

[clrsgt]

I like everything you have done, especially the skintones.

 

[arj]

Very nicely painted, as usual.
I particularly like the depth of the purple, and would like to know how you achieved it.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Bigmick]

Thank you all very much for your comments, as always very much appreciated.
I've got the Daenerys bust to do, so more flesh tone, thankfully the last female figure for a bit until I do another shield maiden.
I'll give the pistol metalwork a wash coat to pick out the detail, cheers Kev and Wayne, and no, not my eyebrow pencil, that's russet blush, I use ebony smoke.
Andrew, the purple was two good coats then a final thinned coat so I knew there was a good layer then highlights with white added, I mixed about 4 shades getting gradually lighter, that's it really, I kept turning the bust in the light to see where real highlights would fall.

Regards.
Mick.

 

[peedee]

Lovely work

Paul.