Oils Celt V sec

[clides]

Hi to all !
Finally I finished my third miniature, as you can see from the pictures I painted the whole oil.
I hope you like it, of course, every comment and criticism is always welcome

 

[clides]

I added new photos , hoped that these are better than the previous
Salvatore

 

[megroot]

For your third figure you some great work. Salvatore.
Some comments; I wonder what is the color that you do the shading. It seems that you use black. Stay away from black and use the complementary color for shading.
Then the paint looks glossy. I'm a oilpainter to, and i would recommend the following tricks to avoid glossy paint.
Put a blob of paint on a indexcard or something similar. Let it stay there for about 15 minutes. Then you see that the oil is soaked out of the paint. Remove the paint from the card and bring it to your pallet. With some White Spirit (very little) you can made the paint fluidable and paint the figure.
After a painting session I put the figure into a drybox (wooden box with a lightbulb 65 W). I let it stay overnight. The next morning it isn't shiny and dry.

Marc

 

[clides]

Thanks so much for your advice, I had no idea of the existence of these little tricks! Surely I will put them in use with the next miniature, but first I must get hold of the white spirit
ps. Sorry for my english