Acrylics Painting a cossack-bust

[pinsel]

hello
wort mention is your kind of painting only segments.i could think that you must mix all colours to an greater amount to get them all again in the same fashion,like those already applied.
normaly one simply paints the whole thing in one basecoat and then starts its way to the end.
i do it this way.but i can hardly call myself an good painter.
so its interesting to see how different peoeple tackle the same thing from different directions
will get to an fine result i think
cheers

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Thanks Markus!

I write down my mixing proportions in each case, after that there it is not so difficult at all to find again the "right" tone...

Regards

 

[Martin Antonenko]

68. and 69. day, 20. and 26. January 2011

First time painting-actions after almost sweated out influenza:

The field blouse.

The first step (still one week ago painted):

Basic colour on it …

The second step (still one week ago painted):

The first and second shades sedately …:

(in the sleeves the already first lights were put as an experiment to test the effect …)

Today then the third step:

The first and second lights …:

… and – the fourth step - blinds …:

But …:

The longer I have worked at this shoulder, the more dissatisfied I have become!

Thgis drapary does not compare to that of the remaining field blouse.

The whole looks too divided into small pieces, too much messy and wants not so surely to the rest fit.

The painting dont looks good, besides, also!

I want to push this only partly on the fact that I am not fit yet completely again.

It is also due to the fact that this "unnatural" drapery, that can't be simply painted not "natural"!

No - there I have to get down to it basically once more!

So have a look at this corner even today sometimes well – then tomorrow there are not them any more!

 

[gordy]

Looking good Martin! I hope you are feeling better

 

[Martin Antonenko]

70. Day, 27. January 2011

Really not really, Gordy! Even though to thanks!

I took of my sculpting stuff again and have started making to myself in the shoulder a new drapery …:

If I am ready with it, I plan to undercoat the shoulder substantially and once more and to paint.

And if I am with it by, here it goes on.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

71. and 72. day, 30. and 31. January 2011

Wage of the rebuilding of the rebuilding …:

Better, but not really good, I think!

So by hundred percent I am contented with it still not – but we let sink it a few days long...

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Thank You, Gordy!

(But I think, I will make this shoulder new again, the next days...)

73. Day, 1. February 2011

Today, however, I come to the cartridge pocket.

These things were given to outbreak of war to the troop when also in the Russian guidance at the last minute the idea asserted itself that bayonet- and saber-attacks counted rather to the weapons of the past and the military future was to be seen in the fire power of the single soldier.

The Russian minister of war Ssuchomlinow …

… and his narrowest employees new weapons felt like the machine gun purely and simply as "unsoldatisch" and place rather on cavalry and bayonet attacks.

Grandduke Nikolas Nikolajewitsch had to do from (already since 1911) in the event of war as supreme commanders destined czar's uncle …

… was forced Ssuchomlinow almost to the action.

Nevertheless, the Russian army moved fully of misery undersupplied with cartridges, machine guns and heavy artillery in the war.

Incomprehensibly czar Nikolas II left the besides exceedingly corrupt minister Ssuchomlinow till June, 1915 in the office.

Only then he was set down – and was arrested in April, 1916 in the Peter and Paul fortress.

(During the revolutionary confusion Ssuchomlinow escaped to Germany. There, in Berlin, he wrote – in 1923 – his memoirs. A copy of this book stands in my cupboard. In 1926 Ssuchomlinow died in Berlin.)

The result of the Russian strains at the last minute to increase the fire power also of the cavalryman was a hurriedly developed interim solution – which turned out easy and brilliant and to which the typical long life of all interim solutions was given.

Cossacks and remaining riders were equipped in 1914 with a cartridge pocket which carry one as a belt, as well as could simply hang over the shoulder …:

Inside this cartridge pocket from cowhide and with material contained fed four single chambers in which in each case – packs in oil paper – a loading stripe of the Moisin Nagant carbine could be carried along …:

Of course other ammunition – could be also carried along, for example, for guns and revolvers–.

The pocket was also liked extremely to the sure transport by personal things which one wanted to protect against the weather – Machorka tobacco, for example!

However, then during the war rose to the Russian administration that the enemy – the German infantryman – considerably more ammunition with himself lugged (six loading stripes and more!), so in the battle his weapon could more considerably often reload.

In the course of the war the Russian cavalry-cartridge pocket grew around other chambers – up to six!

Such a variation carries of the Donkosak in the next picture how is to be recognised clearly …:

So far to the history.

Now it is painted.

I have already fixed the colours for the cartridge pocket when I had painted the matching straps …:

Now from it there originates the pocket.

For the small locking button I have taken this spot no brass, but "Andrea" gold.

I prefer this gold because it looks rather "yellowish" and not "reddish", how many other golden tones.

And thus the whole has become …:

The contrast to the field blouse is not big, but he is there – as I have wished this!

The straps which are wrapped around the cartridge pocket are painted not yet.

They have nothing to do with the pocket even also generally!

Why they there are white I not.

Also on the original photo …

… one cannot recognise them!

These straps sometimes I then tomorrow …

In the shoulder there is meanwhile still nothing new …

 

[gordy]

Great information!

 

[Martin Antonenko]

74. Day, 2. February 2011

Thanks a lot, Gordy!

With these colours …

today modified … easily, I paint the strap which is wrapped around the cartridge pocket …:

And tomorrow it goes for once more to the shoulder folds. So how it is now, it pulls the whole figure ’under it.

 

[Stephan]

step by step, uhh babää...da da da...da ..da da..
weiter so mein Freund, das wird schon.
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[Martin Antonenko]

75. Day, 3. February 2011

Thank You, Stephan, old mate!

Today, unfortunately, I can present to You only one blurred picture.
However, you can recognise, that I have made drapery in the shoulder now completely different.

First of all I have painted the segment of the field blouse below (under the cartridge pocket) to receive a comparative value.

For that, I use this colours...:

Then I have started modelling the folds in the shoulder in addition suitably on.

Now these are less than before, for it they are accented a little stronger (as on the back) and the whole drapery has got another course …:

On hardening I want to make a few more corrections, then undercoat with the paintbrush and paint the whole thing …

 

[Ferris]

You are a true perfectionist Martin....!

Gruesse,
Adrian

 

[Martin Antonenko]

76. Day, 4. February 2011

Thanks Ferris! And yes, I am (I think...)

And today?
Folds painted!

Now the whole thing looks more simply and also more plausibly…:

NOW I am contented with the shoulder! Since now all that fits!
Please, note, that the lamp stresses directly about that the high-level lights a little bit more than in reality the case is.

In reality there is less contrasts if I must also admit that he absolutely exists …

I like this just in such a way.

Now I have fun in the figure again!

And now to You to all a nice week-end!

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Thank You, Gordy!

Have a nice weekend!

 

[Martin Antonenko]

77. Day, 7. February 2011

Warm welcome at this point and in the new week!

Today I have refined first the cartridge pocket still a little bit.
Afterwards I have with these colours …

… the button strip of the field blouse painted.

Where the tan cartridge pocket strap crosses the button strip, I made a thin Outlining with Deep brown …

The button becomes with my proven mixture of brass and black …

… colours.

With the result I am rather contented …:

 

[Martin Antonenko]

78. Day, 8. February 2011

Today I don't wanted again painting on the field blouse and indulging myself again in green brown tones.

Therefore, I have planned for the place in the bust upper part of the body, the probably biggest picturesque challenge holds ready...:

The order ribbons!

Our friend carries two Saint Georgs crosses, a bravery honouring.

The order tape of the Saint Georgs Order far an orange-yellow tape with three black stripes in each case on.

Here a model from my private collection:

Typical orange-yellow of this order ribbon I have mixed to me from Yellow, yellow ocher and a shot Scarlet a …:

The black stripes are painted with "scale black", so of black colour which was mixed a tiny shot blue there.

This freehand-stripe-paintig is a work that realkly could drive me crazy!
But I think, I have done this quite well …

On the delicacies and details of the Saint George order crosses themselves we come – probably the day after tomorrow - to speak still in detail …

 

[Martin Antonenko]

79. Day, 9. February 2011

Today of the field blouses "sector" around the order tapes is in the row.
Colours – as usual, …:

Also here we have the impression of the a little bit oversubscribed highlights originates while taking a photo again.

In truth this don't looks so hard…:

But now there I will follow once more with and "soft" someth

 

[theBaron]

Ha, Martin, da bin i aa wiada

79. Day, 9. February 2011

But now there I will follow once more with and "soft" someth

I can't tell if the contrast between light and dark is the result of the paint you've applied, or of the light used when photographing the piece.

Prost aus Bethlehem!
Brad

 

[Martin Antonenko]

80. Day, 10. February 2011

Hi Brad – Prost zurück!

To the bigger part this is a result of the lighting.
Here in the north of Germany are at the moment so and the following... right grey winter's days.
There I do only fairly decent photos if I sweetly the figure directly under micron daylight lamp...

Nevertheless, I wants tone down the contrasts quietly a little bit, but very carefully for I do not want, that micron figure looks only good on photos but in reality...

But back to the figure:

Today I would like to tell You a little bit more about the highest Russian bravery honouring, the Saint George cross and the matching order nomenclature.

There was an almost incalculable number of Saint Georgs honourings, beginning at the bottom of the scale with silver and golden medals as well as crosses for ordinary soldiers, about order crosses and Saint George's sabers for officers up to special order great crosses who could be lent only to the highest commanders and foreign citizens.

Because my bust carries two Saint Georgs crosses, I want to limit myself at this point to these crosses.

Easy soldiers and noncommissioned officers were able – except the abovementioned medallions! – the only 4th class of the order …

As well as the 3rd class …:

… acquire.

Higher orders could not acquire to an easy Cossack – unless, he was carried because of bravery to an officer.

Then the higher classes of the order were also open to him of course. The afterwards higher honouring would have been therefore the Saint Georgs cross for officers …:

Such a thing seemed with progressive war course relatively often.

During the second world war the Soviet Union introduced on the 8. November, 1943 the order, by the way, again!

The order tape looked precisely just, as the tsarist version. Indeed, the "christian" cross changed to the Soviet star and the orders-plates did not show the holy Saint George (the patron saint of Russia), but the Spasskij tower of the Kremlin, the ruling centre of the Soviet Union.

The order was called "Fame Order" and had three classes.

Surprisingly for the actually "classless" society of the Soviet Union the order could be lent as earlier among the czars also now only to ordinary ranks.

But back to the Saint George crosses for lower ranks during the czar's time:

My Cossack carries two order crosses, the 3rd and 4th classes could be lent him, so it seems reasonable to paint one of the crosses silver and the other golden-coloured.

However, unfortunately, this does not go!

Since every class – 4. as well as 3. – it was lent basically TWO TIMES, before there was the afterwards higher honouring!

By this second lending of the one and same class again the order tape with an additional tape loop which was fixed with brass braces in front on the order tape was decorated.

This feels also well on the next photo to recognise …:

Now with this knowledge we turn to my bust.

My Cossack carries two Saint Georges crosses.

After that on top introduced nomenclature I must paint my both crosses dark-silver (4th class), and add one more tape loop for the second lending there the second (left) order.

In detail these tape loops saw thus from …:

I have left out this thing up to now, because it would have interfered with the remaining painting too much!

But if I exactly liked to equip my Cossack by hundred percent historically, I must make this tape loop now.

I have modeled this detail today from FIMO and have "baked" …

Tomorrow the small thing should be painted.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

81. Day 11. February 2011

Thank You, Gordy!

To be able to paint generally this tape loop, I stick them first of all on a selfsticks-label.

Otherwise the thing would say "goodbye" with the smallest touch and fail in the "carpet nirvana".

The tiny tape loop becomes with the known colour blendings …

… paints.

Besides, became – as far as my fingers admitted this – even light and shade follows …:

The brass braces originate from Milliput …

… and becomes with "Andrea" gold …

… paints …:

The braces have been mounted deliberately a little bit crooked on the loop. Why this is in such a way, I come back to it later …

Now, however, the tape loop is certainly kept first of all, until I need them again.

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As a big "thank-you" for your mostly very helpful contributions which have helped me up to now very much I would like to involve You in a detail of the figure now, so to speak, and begin, therefore, the following

Survey:

What concerns the in colour creation of the gun cord, in the meantime, I have excluded everybody Red, Yellow, orange, white tones and green tones.

There remain two possibilities:

Variation A …
… is the "physical-coloured" version, besides, it would become possibly around these colours here …

… act.

Variation B …

… would exist against it of the „Orenburger of blue“ which adorns already the Paspeln around the shoulder pieces and also is planned for the cap tape of the Cossack.

Here, besides, these colours would come …

… into the play.

Both variations are possible and also proved!
But how much you this?

Variation A or variation B???

As well as you would want this by the majority, it will be painted!

I am glad about Your answers!

And now to You to all a nice week-end!