The Real Deal - still 65 days

Aren't you all lucky, two posts in one day!  : )

I did end up deciding to put some color on Vertical Limit after all.  Mostly because I still had the paint all mixed up and paint is a terrible thing to waste.  Or so I keep trying to remind myself. 

I always used to use pastels to paint my models, but after going to college and getting my degree in Fine Arts, my brain decided that oils would be more fitting.  I've been regretting that decision ever since, but I'm determind to get a better handle on it.  Eventually.  I'm sure it also doesn't help that I keep trying to do chestnuts in oils.  That color is the bane of my existance in any medium. 


WHOA! Case and point!


Now!  On to the main spectacle.

First he got three layers of the basic body color in acrylic.  I mixed in a little gold pigment for some sparkle, no boring chestnuts here!

NOT THAT SPARKLE!!!!



Not that you can see the sparkle here.




Streaky...blargh.



Next I blocked in him mane, tail, and feetsies.  I love the lighter legs that the chestnust have sometimes.



Umm...not quite that high.




Mmmm, creamy.

After those dried it was time to break out the oils and mix more colors.  Yay!



Whoa!  Crazy red!  And still streaky, but mostly becuase I put on suck a thin layer of oils.  At least I hope that's why.  He's still very wet so he's super shiny.  Honeslty, he's looks better in the photos that he does in person.  Or maybe the lighting in my room is just terrible.  I'm still trying to figure out the logic in painting my most expensive resin myself in a medium I'm only moderately comfortable in.  I guess I'll be debating that for a few more days until I can pick him up again.  Drying time of oils is a total killer.

Now I get to prep the rest of them.  : )