Little Flame WIP

Oh, and as for time…I usually stay up to early morning hours painting, or wake up early early with my hubby around 5 am-ish…though the latter is mostly true and I’ll stay up until 1 or 3 am to continue a paint job. The longest stretch I did without stopping would probably be 12 hours straight painting, but normally I break it up around 8 hour spots each for better time-keeping. I am painting and doing artwork full-time and I haven’t gotten a new kid’s book job solidified yet for this year, though one may be on the way very soon.

Maybe bronze would be a good horn color? Or copper! Yes maybe copper!

You just gotta get the idea out of ya and keep painting ’til ya can’t paint nomores! That’s my motto.

Hmm, our painting styles are not that dissimilar. I have all of my paint colors on hand and switch between them as I paint to create the blends, and then go back over areas where paint needs more coats…especially with metallic paints…which is what this dragon of mine is all in. I find it harder to work with metallics. I prefer solid colors but for certain things metallics are needed and the end result is a bit more flashy and glossy in the scales.

However, whenever I mix paints to get a certain color and know I must stop at some point and leave white areas I will paint the entire necessary parts in that mixed color so I don’t loose it and have to re-mix…I’d never get the same blend twice. The belly of this dragon is a mix of orange, white, and yellow metallics so I did the whole belly in 3 coats, letting it dry between coats as I did another part. THAT, or I use a different paint well that keeps my acrylics wet. If I need to keep paints overnight and I KNOW this beforehand I use this special acrylic paint holder that keeps paints moist overnight in an air-tight tray. VERY useful.