WOW :hypnotized: It's freaking me out bit how life like that looks.
haha - thanks Zab. Bear in mind, the new camera makes a world of difference. Even though I'm taking stills with my webcam or pulling them out of the video footage, the camera blows my poor ancient digital away. (Hey six years old and I got it for under $300. It was a real work horse and still going strong. But tech stops for no painter.) Anyways, the webcam has a heck of a lot better rez than my poor digital.
I also need to touch up her eyes and clean up the line around the mouth - her lipstick smeared.
I like her! I have been watching your vids Kathryn, and i will be trying pigments very soon myself, but you make it look easy. Congrats on wip of the day
I'm going to have to get cracking on black tinkerbell aren't i?
I didn't realize they made metallic pigments, do you like those over metallic paints?
Moe
hehe! Thanks Moe! And honestly I think between me and you on these larger scales and pigments - we're gonna surprise a lot of people.
Thank you so much for watching my vids. My WGC friends have been bugging me to finish them. So I start working and it's like, they disappear on me. ahhh! No, they're great but lots of peeps have lots of stuff going and many of them came in after I took my hiatus to work on the books. So they don't know.
But one thing I really think will help people realize this is no more difficult than layering or NMM (neither of which I can do...well or at all). My hand tremors are getting worse and worse and I'd be really stuck if it wasn't for pigments. Screw up with paint, if I don't wipe it off fast - I have to deal with a mistake that can be hard to disguise.
I make a mistake with pigments, as long as I don't seal it - I take a dry paper towel and wipe it off when ever I want to - easy peasy. If it's really tough, (like dried cat barf) a slightly damp paper towel fixes it in two seconds.
Yeah, I like the pigments both flat and metallic a lot more than paint.
Anyway, one thing I really want to do, is get a Google Hangout going with some victims...er....volunteers who have pigments, maybe a colour shaper or two, but never really managed to do more than weather with them (Trystan - ya hearing me on this? Moe? Anyone else...don't be shy...time to step up and take one for the team, your hobby needs you!)
Uh..okay, never mind the pep talk. Anyway we get together on hangouts and start working, I can walk folks through everything right there. As long as someone doesn't go nuts with the sealer and it takes an hour to dry (usually it's dry enough to continue in 10-20 minutes) we can get some great stuff in a short amount of time.
It would be fun and folks would see how easy it is (then run me out of town for making it look hard. haha!) The easiest thing to do would be to start with a larger scale for the first model (if nothing else easier to see on camera) then go to a smaller mini 28mm or whatever. That would be a blast and would help folks I think.
Okay, I gots to finalize edits on my manuscript today and email it to my edtor or I'll be in trouble again. Only a tiny amount of work compared to last time. Then I'll get some pics, work on some vids and be back to harass everyone! Thanks again - so glad y'all like the stuff.
