Jean Lannes or not...

[akaryu]

Hello Planeteers,
This is the last one for this year, an older Verlinden bust which should represent Maréchal Lannes as Colonel-general of the Swiss troops. Far from being a faultless bust, it was at least a good exercise in patiently painting lace! Thanks for looking and don't spare your critic/comments.



cheers,
Pierre

 

[megroot]

The painting is great.
The bust, well you can see in compare with todays bust's this has had his time

Marc

 

[anstontyke]

really great work on all the lace.

tony

 

[Nap]

Hi Pierre

Certainly an old Velinden and as you say a good painting exercise ....I would probably highlight the lacework a bit more and put a wash on the fringes ..my personal thoughts ...

But you have made a nice overall job of this

Thanks for sharing

Nap

Don't forget sonething for FOTM !

 

[akaryu]

Nice idea Kevin, maybe I have another go later on. For the moment I'm seeing oak leave lace with my eyes closed!
Pierre

 

[KenBoyle]

While the Verlinden busts have been around a while, I personally don't have a problem with them unless they are historically inaccurate. (But then I have a very large gray army of old figures/busts waiting to be painted. )

The detail maybe a little heavy and stiff but they still look decent when painted, as does yours.

I agree with Nap, while you have obviously already added highlights and shadows to the braid and fringe, I would probably go over it again with a very controlled sepia wash to make the detail stand out even more and then go back and add some limited highlights to make it pop. The problem I try to overcome with some of my figures is that I over blend everything to the point where it looks like only one color. You really should see a few distinctly different shades of the base color with subtle transitions between. The holy grail of painting, and I'm still working on it at age 71. All that said, the bust looks really nice and I would probably leave it as is and take the comments into account on the next one.

Cheers,
Ken

 

[clrsgt]

Good work and I agree with the assessments by Nap and Ken.

 

[akaryu]

Thanks for the constructive comments guys!
cheers,
Pierre

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Perfectly painted ,great job

Mobo