chasseur Trumpeter

[megroot]

Nothing more to say then OHHHHH and AHHHHH<
Great, Great work.

marc

 

[blabsy]

Hi Ivo,
your work still blows me away,you was a god 20years ago when I started,and still are!!!
KEEP IT UP!
Best Regards
Paul

 

[ivopreda]

friends
first best wishes for this new year...

holydays gave me the possibility to start to paint my trumpeter… and I decided to post the different painting session... yu will see the figure as the figure improve in may hand. It will be a long job but... we have time...

During the scratching activity I decided to have 4 sub assembly to paint, the horse full of his furniture, the man, the trumpet and the pelisse.

If you look at the pictures you can discover some minor secret… the man doesn’t have the left arm! It has an hole into the left side to host a pin glued on the pelisse. I like to prepare everything before the final assembly. Position of the pelisse changed during the year following the fashion and fix it before permit to prepare the parts in the correct way.


Day one session one

I don’t have a standard painting sequence, I normally start from one of the most important colour present in the figure. In this case I started to paint the crimson saddle cloth and pelisse. The job was done in acrylics took from the games workshop range. They have fantasy name ( gory red and scar red but are much much better than the Vallejo range of reds. I never liked Vallejo reds, I found them not covering and very far from an acceptable range of shade. This colour was darked with a bit of Prussian blue and highlighted with flat flesh. The final colour has to be slightly rose in his red tones ( crimson…)

 

[ivopreda]

Day one session two

Another two base colour, the sky blue dolman and the deer trousers, nothing special painted in acrylics searching the effect more that the exact colour. It’s interesting to see that the sky blue is a quite dark blue. I saw many original samples of this colour and I never saw a light colour.
I recently bought a fantastic pictorial books “Les Trésors de l'Empéri” (http://www.editions-napoleon.com ) , this book contain many pictures of the Napoleonic objects displayed at the Emperi Museum at Salon de Provence with a very clearly pics and also the sky blue uniform in the book likes dark.




the following picture show the trumpet and his flag, nothing special only a dark green base with some yellowish highlight. I maintained the green very dark, it will be covered by gold and silver decoration and I want them clearly visible.


see you to the next post… tomorrow ?

 

[ivopreda]

day one session three… the horse back right side

painting an horse is a great challenge, I like paint horses and I try to do something particular in order to give them more personality as possible.
This horse has to be grey, trumpet ride grey horses to be visible for the officer. In this case I took an old magazine about Arabian horses as reference. I choose to paint not a very light horse but to paint a reddish grey horse.
Painting was done in oils, the base is a mix of titanium white and natural earth highlighted with pure white and darked with a bit of violet. Give attention to the pictures sequence because you will see modification also in part that can be considered finished. Paint the complete horse in a single session is impossible and I like to start from the back most visible side and move to front and other side. There is a reason for that, I need to have an idea of the final result ASAP. I can repeat a very close colour easily and I prefer to arrive very close to finish I one part before to continue.
Reddish tone were added on the fresh colour. This result comes from a single working session long about 50 minutes




day one same session … the horse front right side

as explained above I continue to paint from back to front, here the anterior part where the colour are slightly lighter.
I paid a lot of attention to the knees, are normally characteristic and darker than the rest of the horse. Colour were the same.
Another 30 minutes of painting…


see you to the next session…very soon

 

[rafaelega]

Ivo,

I am following your SBS with very interest. I am learning a lot.
I must paint a horse in few days (I am painting the 54mm Pegaso Count of Naunty figure) and I think the horse can be a chestnut horse. My problem is that I never paint in oils before and I am not sure how to do that. Could you tell me any reference book or article in order to learn how to paint horses with oils?

Thanks in advance

Rafa

 

[garyjd]

You did a great job on the conversion portion of your project. I enjoy seeing the close ups of the painting process as well.~Gary