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Lorielle Silverrain
I started this around the holidays, so decided to make her a ‘Christmas’ elf, including colour scheme and sculpted mistletoe plant. The reddish armour was an area of difficulty for me. I wanted red but not too red, so I started with a red-brown base, then highlighted up with true red, orange and finally a bit of yellow mixed into the orange. I didn’t really see much effect until I hit the yellow-orange, and then it was too much, also looked a bit grainy. And not as red overall as I’d wanted. Several red paint and ink glazes later, I think it looks okay. For the base, I wanted to try to capture that light type of snowfall with big sparkly flakes that just softly dusts everything. I’m pretty happy with the way that turned out. I used a snow paste product called Alene’s True Snow. I used a pretty small brush (mostly cause it was beat-up and also had tough bristles), lightly rolled it in the True Snow, then gently dabbed it on. (This is a repost. I realized that I had been putting my light source too close and overexposing my images.)
Posted: 3 Mar 2004
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