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Wise Queen - Christmas 2007
I entered this figure into the Gen Con 2008 painting contest, where it placed Third in the Single Figure category. I’m very pleased about that, as I’ve been trying to place in the top three in a Gen Con category for a few years now. I’ve been working on my photography a bit lately, and I think these pictures are as true to life as I’ve yet achieved. The main figure is the third in Werner Klocke’s re-imagining of the three Wise Men as three Wise Queens. It is his limited edition figure for Christmas 2007. As with a number of Klocke figures, she is sculpted to be looking in a particular direction, so I added the bookstand to give her something to look at and create a small scene. It is a Reaper piece. This is the second of my experiments in mixing my own dark skin tones. (You can see the first here.) For this one I wanted a nice warm skin tone to contrast with the pale greens I had in mind for the cloak. I aimed to unify the colour scheme by using the same shading colour (P3 Coal Black) throughout the piece, with the exception of the book pages. Even the base rim and book symbols are painted with a mix of Coal Black and regular black. It worked very nicely to shade the skin. I liked the idea of doing Egyptian-inspired hieroglyphs and image for the book using non-traditional Egyptian colours. This figure will be auctioned in the very near future off to support the charity fund-raising activities of Newbold Challenge. I’m a little loath to part with her, but it’s easier knowing she’ll be earning money for the worthy causes of Children in Need and Comic Relief.
Posted: 14 Sep 2008
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