paint pearl white
- Thread starter WingZ
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There are some tutorials on painting white: I suggest you take a look at them as it's a hard color to make look good.
I'd prime it white. Repainting a bunch of black white will give you a headache.
Sadly, if you want a truly white white you don't get a highlight. It's white.
To make it look 'pearly' just take a look at a picture: they tend to have a pinkish hue to them. I'd glaze with a super-thing layer of pink.
For shading I'd probably use a brown... but that might take some playing around with. Other options would be blues to try and capture the subtle iridesence.
I'd prime it white. Repainting a bunch of black white will give you a headache.
Sadly, if you want a truly white white you don't get a highlight. It's white.
To make it look 'pearly' just take a look at a picture: they tend to have a pinkish hue to them. I'd glaze with a super-thing layer of pink.
For shading I'd probably use a brown... but that might take some playing around with. Other options would be blues to try and capture the subtle iridesence.
Einion
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'Pearly' usually means like a pearl, which is not a colour thing but a reflective effect. Pearlescent paints are available if you want to go that route and adding a little metallic paint (or metallic medium) to normal colours can work okay too. Liquitex interference colours are well worth trying for this kind of thing, although in common with most metallic and iridescent paints the sparkles tend to look a little overscale on minis.
If you go with pinkish colouring I'd strongly recommend lining up photographic references to get the colour right for the darker mixes - the colours are very subtle, more a faint salmon than pink per se.
I'd probably prime white for this. Grey could work fine but I'd probably undercoat the areas in plain white before working on them in the pearlescent paint, although thinking about it layering on a transparentish iridescent paint directly over grey primer could be a good starting point for the effect.
Einion
If you go with pinkish colouring I'd strongly recommend lining up photographic references to get the colour right for the darker mixes - the colours are very subtle, more a faint salmon than pink per se.
I'd probably prime white for this. Grey could work fine but I'd probably undercoat the areas in plain white before working on them in the pearlescent paint, although thinking about it layering on a transparentish iridescent paint directly over grey primer could be a good starting point for the effect.
Einion
JesterzUSMC
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Cuz....
"SHE wore a pearl necklace!"
"SHE wore a pearl necklace!"
Joona
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http://www.chicjewelrylive.com/images/sample_pearl354.jpg
You might want a tiny amount of greyish green in some shades along the pink/flesh/salmon colour. Otherwise it might look more like a... well... really pale pink marine.
You might want a tiny amount of greyish green in some shades along the pink/flesh/salmon colour. Otherwise it might look more like a... well... really pale pink marine.
