Lannister Supremacy
A mountainous task...
”He was huge, the biggest man that Eddard Stark had ever seen. Robert Baratheon and his brothers were all big men, as was the Hound, and back at Winterfell there was a simpleminded stableboy named Hodor who dwarfed them all, but the knight they called the Mountain That Rides would have towered over Hodor.”
Well, this was interesting. Ser Gregor is in fact so large it became troublesome to paint him! I had to alter my painting approach and learn some new tricks because my usual techniques just ended up looking messy over such large areas. I ended up using Lahmian medium to make glazes for tying the layers of highlights and shadow together more neatly.
I also used medium to thin the rhinox/mephiston blend from the horsehide and used that as another layer of shade and grime on the armour panels.
In the end I think I’ve reapplied metal on the more extreme spikes and helmet four or five times, it just kept rubbing off as I struggled to hold this large figure while painting!
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