Thanks a LOT everyone as you are making me blush with your overly praise as always.
As you all know Cameron of Erracht is one of the more complicated of tartans to paint
After I painted a field of dark blue comprised of Navy Blue (Maimeri) + Black, I laid in the green bands (Nap Green Andrea). After that, I mixed the dark blue + green to obtain the blue green effect of the other squares, as can be seen in the first update of the other thread. Next, black green bordering was painted in. Green ochre (V) + a drop of Tamiya matt acrylic (sorry guys but am at work and don'thave the bottle with me) was used for the "yellow" stripes. Red ochre (Maimeri) was used for the red grid
Next came the "weaving" which I achieved by 45degree strokes to the left (I made sure that I kept the strokes to the left, that is upper stroke starting from the left side and end downwards on the right....hope my English is explaing well enough to understand ) with the corresponding underlying colour, on both the yellow and red stripes. Next came the pronounced weave where the lines intersect as this will be a pure/pronounced/enhanced colour, with yellow ochre and red ochre.
Final step was a diluted overall wash with Blue black W&N Oil + white spirit to unify the whole pattern and sort of harmonize the picture. Ivory Black W&N Oil, again diluted was applied inside the pleats after this dried I revisited the intersections with red ochre and yellow ochre accordingly.
Inspiration to and how to paint tartan was always Shep Paine's and Bill Horan's books,(Bill mentions the can of Tartan spray in his book) coupled with Danilo Cartacci's recent book. However, the "weaved look" per se was truly inspired at last year's Euro when I gaped in awe infront of Pietro Balloni's bare chested Highlander in Class2, as before that time I never believed that a tartan could be painted in that lively way!!! So apart the 3 books that I mentioned, I also had a photo of Pietro's masterpiece saved on my PC
IN BETWEEN ALL THE ABOVE...............BELIEVE ME.......A LOT OF CORRECTING!!!!! AND WHEN I SAY A LOT I MEAN A LOT to make things worse, after it was almost ready, that is before the washes with the respective oils, I REPAINTED the red grid from where it passes on the green and blue green bands as i painted these a bit on the wide side I fought with myself, not to do it, as I tried to convince myself that it would pass, but my conscience did not let me sleep well for a couple of nights, so I just rolled my sleeves and went for it like a grown up it is the way I've been bred in scale modelling, and being an SSM member does not help at all, as on Wed I would sure fall prey to the scrutineering eyes of my fellow club mates (I would proudly do the same to them if it was the case mind you) so apart from that, I just really could not have lived with the guilt that I spent the same amount of time just to screw it, so quite a lot of REPAINTING I HAD TO DO...........but now I am free of all burdens that I streched my mere mortal fibres to the maximum limit
Thanks for hearing me rant, and again, a heartfelt thanks to ALL of you!!! I really appreciate it!!!!
Ray
As you all know Cameron of Erracht is one of the more complicated of tartans to paint
After I painted a field of dark blue comprised of Navy Blue (Maimeri) + Black, I laid in the green bands (Nap Green Andrea). After that, I mixed the dark blue + green to obtain the blue green effect of the other squares, as can be seen in the first update of the other thread. Next, black green bordering was painted in. Green ochre (V) + a drop of Tamiya matt acrylic (sorry guys but am at work and don'thave the bottle with me) was used for the "yellow" stripes. Red ochre (Maimeri) was used for the red grid
Next came the "weaving" which I achieved by 45degree strokes to the left (I made sure that I kept the strokes to the left, that is upper stroke starting from the left side and end downwards on the right....hope my English is explaing well enough to understand
) with the corresponding underlying colour, on both the yellow and red stripes. Next came the pronounced weave where the lines intersect as this will be a pure/pronounced/enhanced colour, with yellow ochre and red ochre.Final step was a diluted overall wash with Blue black W&N Oil + white spirit to unify the whole pattern and sort of harmonize the picture. Ivory Black W&N Oil, again diluted was applied inside the pleats
after this dried I revisited the intersections with red ochre and yellow ochre accordingly.Inspiration to and how to paint tartan was always Shep Paine's and Bill Horan's books,(Bill mentions the can of Tartan spray in his book
) coupled with Danilo Cartacci's recent book. However, the "weaved look" per se was truly inspired at last year's Euro when I gaped in awe infront of Pietro Balloni's bare chested Highlander in Class2, as before that time I never believed that a tartan could be painted in that lively way!!! So apart the 3 books that I mentioned, I also had a photo of Pietro's masterpiece saved on my PC IN BETWEEN ALL THE ABOVE...............BELIEVE ME.......A LOT OF CORRECTING!!!!! AND WHEN I SAY A LOT I MEAN A LOT
to make things worse, after it was almost ready, that is before the washes with the respective oils, I REPAINTED the red grid from where it passes on the green and blue green bands as i painted these a bit on the wide side I fought with myself, not to do it, as I tried to convince myself that it would pass, but my conscience did not let me sleep well for a couple of nights, so I just rolled my sleeves and went for it like a grown up it is the way I've been bred in scale modelling, and being an SSM member does not help at all, as on Wed I would sure fall prey to the scrutineering eyes of my fellow club mates (I would proudly do the same to them if it was the case mind you) so apart from that, I just really could not have lived with the guilt that I spent the same amount of time just to screw it, so quite a lot of REPAINTING I HAD TO DO...........but now I am free of all burdens that I streched my mere mortal fibres to the maximum limit Thanks for hearing me rant, and again, a heartfelt thanks to ALL of you!!! I really appreciate it!!!!
Ray
