Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Il Piccolo


I managed to get a hour of painting done Sunday evening, attempting to get his beard detailed.
Originally it was painted off white but after subsequent highlighting and washes, everything looked too bland and uniform.
I ended up going back to the drawing board and settled on trying to paint the beard in various grey tones followed by some darker washes.
Now he appears to look more like a Gnome than Santa!
Base colours were added to his clothing, just about time to start on highlights and shadows..now I just have to hope that he doesn't run away in the middle of the night ;-)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

dag Shay,
eindelijk ontdekte ik je mooie Kiwibelg-blog, via de uitnodiging die je stuurde voor 1,000,000 against Mc Cain. Hopelijk heb ik daar iets juist aangeklikt, want ik vind facebook soms nogal verwarrend, maar dat zal wel aan mij liggen :)
groeten, ook aan de familie,
Piet

Rudi Richardson said...

Hi Shay,

Nice work, mate. He's definitely lost that St. Nick look, and looks more like he should ;-)

Rudi

MikeNZ said...

Just come across your work here Shay with a bizarre thread on my forum about Gnomes and here I find a Kiwi (?) living in Belgium painting miniatures, weird.

Good looking figure here, call by my virtual place if you have a chance.

Mike

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