pahvivalmiste
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I Am the Black Wizards! Erm...
It has been a long time since I posted here, but it seems I am returning to Old Citadel stuff after some endeavours to different miniature worlds. I do not have any big projects related to Warhammer going on at the moment - just individual figures, my dwarfs are on hiatus - though I am planning to paint the old Harlequins at some point.
I am working on an old Chaos Sorcerer as an experiment with water soluble* oil colours. The base is not finished and I might do a few tweaks here and there, but nothing too drastic. Also no matt varnish yet.
My last experience with oils dates back about 25 years or so, and thus the medium was not totally unfamiliar (except that the oils I used back then were not water-based…). I did read some tutorials but decided to go like I felt anyway This resulted in some trouble, but I think I also learned something: e.g. that 1) pre-painting some shades and colours with acrylics helps, 2) blending et al work differently from acrylics-based painting, 3) wiping the excess paint as suggested in most tutorials is one way to go, but these can be used in thicker layers for different effects, 4) oil painting requires more pre-planning than painting with acrylics and 5) these are not as durable as acrylics.
In this figure I would have liked to use stronger contrasts in certain areas, especially the robe, but it is rather time-consuming to do at this stage. With these oils it is practical to paint all shades/colours transitions in one go instead of layering- The drying time is about a day or two and several layers do not look that good. I also learned to use water instead of medium somewhere between the colours
All comments are welcome!
* EDIT: Corrected "water-based oil colours" to "water soluble oil colours".
EDIT 2: Upgraded broken photo links.
It has been a long time since I posted here, but it seems I am returning to Old Citadel stuff after some endeavours to different miniature worlds. I do not have any big projects related to Warhammer going on at the moment - just individual figures, my dwarfs are on hiatus - though I am planning to paint the old Harlequins at some point.
I am working on an old Chaos Sorcerer as an experiment with water soluble* oil colours. The base is not finished and I might do a few tweaks here and there, but nothing too drastic. Also no matt varnish yet.
My last experience with oils dates back about 25 years or so, and thus the medium was not totally unfamiliar (except that the oils I used back then were not water-based…). I did read some tutorials but decided to go like I felt anyway This resulted in some trouble, but I think I also learned something: e.g. that 1) pre-painting some shades and colours with acrylics helps, 2) blending et al work differently from acrylics-based painting, 3) wiping the excess paint as suggested in most tutorials is one way to go, but these can be used in thicker layers for different effects, 4) oil painting requires more pre-planning than painting with acrylics and 5) these are not as durable as acrylics.
In this figure I would have liked to use stronger contrasts in certain areas, especially the robe, but it is rather time-consuming to do at this stage. With these oils it is practical to paint all shades/colours transitions in one go instead of layering- The drying time is about a day or two and several layers do not look that good. I also learned to use water instead of medium somewhere between the colours
All comments are welcome!
* EDIT: Corrected "water-based oil colours" to "water soluble oil colours".
EDIT 2: Upgraded broken photo links.