Knight of Heaven.

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Thank you Al.
I used flaked white, flesh ocre, raw ocre, ultramarine blue and a tadd of carmine red for the flesh.

 

[Nap]

Hi Guy

That's takented art on the flesh tones love the way this is going

Looking forward to seeing more

Nap

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Thank you Nap !

I applied some more paint onto the helmet, I think it's an improvement but I leave that to you.

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Hi there Guy that's lovely work with the oils, you should be pleased with those results, you have the making of a nice finished bust on you workbench, what brand do you use, I cant find a brand that I am happy with as I seem to get grainy pigments in a lot of the Windsor Newton colours that wont give a nice smooth result when trying to blend in the shadows and highlights in fact does anyone else get this problem, the worst offenders are the Vandyke brown, Burnt and Raw Umber type shades.
Keep up the good work and look forward to seeing him completed as I have one in my grey army lol.
TERRY

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Hi there Terry, thanks for your kind reply sir. I paint with Talens Rembrandt oils, this is Talens' finest range. I have Talens Van Gogh tubes too, this is Talens' study paint, in general they work well too. I'm sure that room temperature is important. I experience difficulties when I'm painting in a cold room. In the warm living room I get the best results. You can also store your paint in a warm environment, maybe this helps ?
You could be right on the grainy pigments, I had this problem in the past too, at that time I had Winton oils.
I'm looking forward to other members' reactions...

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Thank you for the fast reply, I had been looking at the Rembrandt range because many of the good figure painters seem to use them, but the only place that I can get them is from Amazon as none of our local Art shops stock anything other than W&N or Reeves so I sort of put of buying them but I will have another look at getting a couple of the browns into my paint box.
Looking forward to seeing the way you treat the cloth garments on the bust using oils.
TERRY

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

No problem Terry.

Today I started the tunic with Humbrol enamels.
Sorry for the bad photo btw. Next are oils to finish.

Best regards !

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Hi There Guy looking forward to see how you get on with the tunic and the painting of the dreaded Red and White side by side, I had to do this on my last bust and it took forever overpainting and touching up to eliminate any traces of pink but I got there, good luck, the knight is looking good.
TERRY

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Hi Terry, this is the first time I'll paint red so I'm pretty excited to give it a go.
Yesterday I've given the white part of the tunic its first shades with oils.



Best regards.

 

[tonydawe]

Hi Guy,

If you want to replicate the actor Orlando Bloom who plays Balian of Ebelin in "Kingdon of Heaven" on which this bust is based, I'd recommend you change the colour of the tunic from red and white to a burgundy and buff/ crème colour. It's not a criticism of what you've done so far, I just wanted to alert you to another option if you wanted it.

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Hi Guy your progress is looking good with the fine shading on the white, the red can prove to be tricky trying to get the contrast right and end up with a suitable shade that your happy with but you seem to have the talent going on what you have posted to date so crack on and bring him to life.
I always try to tone the colours down so that they are not to bright and the weathering stage can help if you can bring yourself to adding blood and dirt (not over doing it) to what is usually a nice neat paint job lol.
TERRY

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Hi Tony, thank you for the heads up my friend. You're 100% right about the tunic, I reworked it today and it's not done of course but it looks better now I think. I've also tried to create the heavy fabric of the textile with my oils.



Hi Terry, the reds will be a challenge but I look forward to give them a try. Thanks for your kind reply and the tips, I'll keep them in mind.

Best regards, thanks for your visit.
Guy

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Guy that's the beauty of PF there is always assistance out there and your thread and progress will be watched and help others with their painting.
TERRY

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Terry, I've just arrived here at PF and the advice and tips I've already got is priceless ! This forum was exactly what I was looking for. And I'm glad we have many oil painting artists here, most people use acrylics I think.

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Guy I have only been a member for several months myself and it was an ebay seller that I had bought a Bust from recommended that I check it out, so I did and not only has it helped me with all types of techniques and where to get stuff but it gives me the motivation to plough on and complete my figures. You will see all different levels of skill and you can notice how beginners get better with each figure because they are picking things up from the PF forums and setting themselves a level to aim at based on other painters work. When I first started painting figures over 40 years ago this was a lonely hobby but with the coming back into the hobby about a year ago and seeing the difference that the internet has made its a completely different and a much more enjoyable past time, so crack on and get that in the cabinet and what are going to work on next?
TERRY

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Hi Terry, thanks for your reply.

Currently I'm painting the "red" part of the tunic, I have a good photo of the movie clothing and this makes things a lot easier.



I think this is looking somewhat better but still much to do on it.

 

[TERRYSOMME1916]

Guy your painting is very neat, you will most definitely end up with a nice bust.
TERRY

 

[Jeff T]

Looking good Guy, the maroon looks much better than before.


Cheer's,
Jeff.

 

[Guy Van Ginneken]

Thank you guys.
I kinda reworked the crosses. Still a lot to do...

 

[lancer115]

Beautiful painting, really a super miniature.
Superb work.....john