MMM Napoleon bust

[Gellso]

Another different thing for me to paint.
My second Nepoleonic and after seeing this I will definitely paint the Blucher and Wellington
Always liked Napoleon and loved painting this.

Virtually no clean up required and lovely sculpting by Pavol

Went for the Dark Blue as I liked it complimenting the gold.

Base was dark Prussian blue + black
Highlights were base + light blue
Shadows were black with a wee bit Prussian blue.

Lace was Dark Star metallic which are great to use.
Regency gold mixed with brown leather
Burnt umber wash
Highlighted with Regency gold and old silver.

 

[baronband]

Whilst the whole bust is great the face is fantastic, the 5 o'clock shadow area is so realistic

John

 

[offo]

Wau, wau, super work my friend. Napoleon looks like he is alive.

 

[DEL]

Bravo Grant this is a cracker of a job.
The face is beautifully done, the eyes in particular are loaded with expression.
Very impressive.
Cheers
Derek

 

[cinimod]

Love the "I've had a bad day at the office" look. Grand job........dom

 

[Gellso]

Cheers John, just some flesh base + blue and flesh base + grey washes for the shadow.

Thanks Pavol, absolutely skilful sculpting.

Cheers Del, That means a lot coming from you. I dulled the whites of the eyes this time.

Thanks Dom, Pavol did all the hard work he looks alive even when he's primed grey.

 

[davidmitchell]

Lovely job on this Grant has to one of your best mate, superb..


Cheers Davie

 

[Nap]

Gells,

Good to see this painted up and what a nice job you have done ...love the whites as well as the 5 o'clock shadow .

Intrigued about the gold lacework on the collar be interested what reference this is from?

Looking forward to seeing you do the others especially Blucher

Thanks or sharing n for the mixes

Nap

 

[Gellso]

Hi Davie, thanks pal great kudos coming from a guy of your talent.

Hi Nap, thank you very much. The collar comes sculpted as braided so you'd need to ask Pavol where he got his pics. You probably know I don't spend hours doing meticulous research as I really can't wait to paint them. A two minute google convinced me to go with the blue uniform. I used this one as my ref.

 

[BarrieHynd]

Sweet mate, like David says, probably your best yet.

Barrie

 

[swralph]

Very nicely painted.

 

[Colin_Fraser]

I like the blue grenadier uniform over the more oft seen chasseur green. Super job on painting his face grant.

Colin

 

[Grod]

Great work Grant.
Gordon

 

[Helm]

Great job Grant as mentioned the facial expression is superb
Steve

 

[megroot]

Excellent paintjob.

Marc

 

[kagemusha]

Very nice work Grant.....love your choice of subject.....you really have pulled it off mate

Ron

 

[brian]

Everything that every one else has said, plus i like the whites ,as they look like real cloth fabric.
Brian

 

[smudger1960]

Lovely piece of work grant,can't wait to see what you do with the other 2 busts

 

[Dennis]

This is a great piece of wotk Grant, it is right on so many levels, congratulaions on a superb rendition.
Dennis

 

[Gary D]

Nice work! Superb paint job! Could I ask how you did the whites? I agree with Brian in that they are very cloth like.

Gary