Esoteric spring cleaning
Oil 2. Final oil.
My oil painted barbarian is done. It took almost 3 days for the paint to dry, but I couldn’t work on him for couple more days. That changed today, and I finished him!
This is how he looked dried after previous painting session and application of fair amount of matt warnish.
Next I applied some washes (oils of course), actually working from the same palette I used painting him in the first place. Blobs of paint were quite workable with addition of a drop of white spirit even 6 days out of the tubes!
First I mixed a purple wash (heavily on the red side) for the skin part.
Next was a mixture of burnt sienna and umber with black (roughly 1:2:1 ratio).This was applied pretty much over all the other parts of the mini, save for weapons.
After the washed dried, I used cotton bud and my finger to wipe out the excess. After that operation I applied another layer (or couple of them) of matt varnish to lock the washes in place.
Last step was application of some highest highlights on the weapons using more transparent paints (i.e. paints mixed with white spirit). Wpplication of those white fading lines was specifically rewarding, cause all you do is make white dot in place you want highest highlight to be and then, smearing in along with a clean brush.
This is how he looks now.
After the warmish dries, I’ll do some rudimentary base work and post final photos tomorrow.
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