Completed First cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

[zernina]

Hello everyone!
I am now painting the bust of Yuri Gagarin - the world's first cosmonaut. Once I saw a photo of the painting of this bust by artist John Chan - it was excellent! - and since then I have dreamed of painting this bust.

Manufacturer - 2dreamers - http://www.2dreamers.cz/
Scale: 1/9
Sculpt : Pavol Ovečka
I mainly used AK acrylic, and a little Polycolor acrylic, and a little PVA tempera. For the face, the base tone is mixed by me from several Polycolor colors .

To be continued....

 

[dwhitford]

Beautiful paintwork! Thanks for posting.

-DW

 

[grasshopper]

He was indeed special person, and tragic..you are someone who will do his memory justice deserved

 

[rjray]

How are the 3rd gen AK acrylics, in terms of working with them? Did you use the specific thinner or something else?

 

[Patrik Ruzic]

Very nice

 

[Steve Brodie]

Wow, wow and thrice wow.

 

[trickydicky]

nicccce

 

[Nap]

Hi Olga

Great to see you posting this and after realising your dream of painting the piece

Cracking start , nice flesh-work as always from you ...good to see the colours your using as well

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Stay safe

Nap

 

[Redcap]

The sculpt itself and your painting skills combine to make this look just like the real Yuri Gagarin. Superb work!
Gary

 

[MiniRapture]

Stunning work! Love it.

 

[zernina]

How are the 3rd gen AK acrylics, in terms of working with them? Did you use the specific thinner or something else?

I like these colors : matte, resistant. I don't use tinners. Wet palette, water and colors.

 

[zernina]

The sculpt itself and your painting skills combine to make this look just like the real Yuri Gagarin. Superb work!
Gary

Thank you very much, Gary! I worked a little bit with the face of the bust with epoxy putty (in terms of sculpture) - the nose was a little too narrow - I made it wider; and the eyes were a little too close to each other - I put putty on the inside of the eyes - I made more widely spaced eyes. I wanted to achieve as much similarity as possible.
I hope I explain clearly - we tried very hard with the google translator
Best wishes!
Olga

 

[Nap]

Thank you very much, Gary! I worked a little bit with the face of the bust with epoxy putty (in terms of sculpture) - the nose was a little too narrow - I made it wider; and the eyes were a little too close to each other - I put putty on the inside of the eyes - I made more widely spaced eyes. I wanted to achieve as much similarity as possible.
I hope I explain clearly - we tried very hard with the google translator
Best wishes!
Olga

So much talent ...and explained well ...thank you

Nap

 

[NeilW]

Superb as ever: interesting to hear of the small corrections to the original sculpt

 

[rjray]

I like these colors : matte, resistant. I don't use tinners. Wet palette, water and colors.

Great to know. I have a small number of them to try out, but my local store carries the full range.

 

[zernina]

Hello everyone!

I finished painting the bust of Yuri Gagarin. It was interesting and informative.

Good luck to everyone in creativity!
Olga

 

[Moonraker]

Spellbinding result. The skin tones and expression are just fantastic.

 

[Peter Day]

Beautiful work.

 

[rjray]

This is just beautiful. I particularly like the job done on the orange flight suit.

Randy

 

[Airkid]

Olga, that is magic! A man I have long admired.

Phil