Bruno
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Tschetan (Hawk)
Leader of the Lakota „Tokala Warrior Society“
A year ago I asked Alan to sculpt a figurine according to another character of her novel. Alan did a great job, but I had another imagination of the face, so I changed the head for a Preiser head, which I re-sculpt to give him a more Native American appearance.
Two years ago I was able to buy the very rare book “A pictorial History of the Oglala” by Amos Bad Heart Bull. He was a Lakota warrior who painted the history of the Oglala in more than 400 ledger drawings. In his paintings he also represents the regalia of the different warrior societies.
This gave me the reason to represent Tshetan as a leader of the “Tokala ore Kit Fox Warrior Society”. The leaders of this society had a “bow lance”, a lance in the shape of the sacred bow. Despite the fact, that the “bow lance” sometimes had a string, it was not for shooting arrows. The “bow lance” was painted and was decorated with a red ribbon with feathers. The leader of the society had also two feathers in a ”V” style. All members of this society had a fox tail on there whip. The whip was the sign of a “Akicita”. The Akicitas had a police function during the buffalo hunt and on the war path.
Alan had told me that he is no specialist for sculpting horses. For this reason I asked Victor Konnov to sculpt me an original Mustang and luckily he agreed. Mustangs were smaller like European horses, they had bigger belly and the shape of the head were different. Victor did a tremendous job in creating a real Mustang.
While the figurine were painted with Acrylics, the Mustang were painted with oil colours. I used the technique David Lane showed me at the Seminar at our Ingolstadt show. Thank you very much David!
The lightning painted on the legs of the horse should give speed to the horse.
I had now started to sculpt and paint a companion to Tshetan for a vignette.
Photo 1 The original figurine sculpted by Alan
Photo 2 I changed the head and started to paint.
Photo 3 The new face
Photo 4 The original war shirt, I used as reverence.
Photo 5 It is important, that the transition between the two colours is soft.
Photo 6 The painted leggings
Photo 7 The figurine is fit to the horse
Photo 8 The painted Mustang
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Leader of the Lakota „Tokala Warrior Society“
A year ago I asked Alan to sculpt a figurine according to another character of her novel. Alan did a great job, but I had another imagination of the face, so I changed the head for a Preiser head, which I re-sculpt to give him a more Native American appearance.
Two years ago I was able to buy the very rare book “A pictorial History of the Oglala” by Amos Bad Heart Bull. He was a Lakota warrior who painted the history of the Oglala in more than 400 ledger drawings. In his paintings he also represents the regalia of the different warrior societies.
This gave me the reason to represent Tshetan as a leader of the “Tokala ore Kit Fox Warrior Society”. The leaders of this society had a “bow lance”, a lance in the shape of the sacred bow. Despite the fact, that the “bow lance” sometimes had a string, it was not for shooting arrows. The “bow lance” was painted and was decorated with a red ribbon with feathers. The leader of the society had also two feathers in a ”V” style. All members of this society had a fox tail on there whip. The whip was the sign of a “Akicita”. The Akicitas had a police function during the buffalo hunt and on the war path.
Alan had told me that he is no specialist for sculpting horses. For this reason I asked Victor Konnov to sculpt me an original Mustang and luckily he agreed. Mustangs were smaller like European horses, they had bigger belly and the shape of the head were different. Victor did a tremendous job in creating a real Mustang.
While the figurine were painted with Acrylics, the Mustang were painted with oil colours. I used the technique David Lane showed me at the Seminar at our Ingolstadt show. Thank you very much David!
The lightning painted on the legs of the horse should give speed to the horse.
I had now started to sculpt and paint a companion to Tshetan for a vignette.
Photo 1 The original figurine sculpted by Alan
Photo 2 I changed the head and started to paint.
Photo 3 The new face
Photo 4 The original war shirt, I used as reverence.
Photo 5 It is important, that the transition between the two colours is soft.
Photo 6 The painted leggings
Photo 7 The figurine is fit to the horse
Photo 8 The painted Mustang
**continued next post**
