Ur-Ghul

ijee

ijee

New member
Another recently finished mini.
Having painted mostly to sell recently,Decided this one I'm keeping (Unless get real nice offer!!)
Nice mini to paint used acrylic base coat then oils to shade and highlight.

ijee.Dave..

P.s Managed to get picture to work this time... No More lazy boy... But cheers for posting them up for me till now... ijee.

link; http://www.coolminiornot.com/297374
 
Last edited:
me_in_japan

me_in_japan

New member
very nice! The contrast in colour and light between the base/ground and the mini works very well. If I may ask - you said you used acrylics as a base and oils to shade/highlight. How did you do this? I mean, usually most folks will mix bits of their base colour into their shade/highlight for aid with smoothing transitions, but obviously if you used oils and acrylics this wouldn't be possible. Was it just a case of doing really thin glazes or do you have some kinda uber-secret special technique? Do tell...
 
jcichon

jcichon

New member
Using and blending oils is normally done by stipling the paint together. First your base color and then painting your highlight or shadow in and stipling the two paints together. THis is a wet on wet process and oils, unless dried under a lamp, take a LONG time to dry. Like a day or more to dry. But the beauty of oils is that wet on wet blending that make seemless transitions in seconds. The main drawback to oils is using them on mini's. Its a tough medium to do in super small scale in my opinion though others have no issue with it
 
ijee

ijee

New member
I really got lost in this paint job is hard to explain, Used 'Two Brush' technique in similar way to how is used for acrylic.
Putting on the shades first in mish mash of patches here n there. Then with clean damp brush I smoothed the transitions
back to the original base coat, Quick warming to dry the shades out little bit (Not completely dry).Before adding the highlights
in tiny spots that are smoothed out.Working from off white kind of beige colour up to pure white.
I was using 'Water mixable' oils, which I much prefer to traditional style.
Hope this helps
Cheers for the comment. ijee.Dave
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back To Top
Top