PYO KiRin-Green and Gold

Thanks you guys. 🙂 With that funky gold marking on his back he kinda reminded me of a hot rod. 😛

That gold on his back is just metallic gold paint…Golden Brand. Then that darker gold on top of that, near that black fur on his spine is actually light copper, another Golden Brand paint color. To blend that area, I first painted the gold, then let that dry. Then, I thinned down the copper with water until it had almost a watercolor consistency, and just did several light washes of color along his back, until I got it as opaque as I wanted.

The blending of the green highlights in his black fur was done using Pearl Ex powdered pigment. Two shades of green pigment was used, one dark green and one a yellow green. I just got the Pearl Ex yesterday at Texas Art Supply. Noticed it as I was browsing and thought I’d try it. I really like the results and it’s fun to use!

I’ve got some of the Pearl Ex (powdered) pigments in Interference Blue and Interference Violet but I’m not really sure how to use the so the color shows up. I’m painting the interference over black and I mixed it in with some black paint, but you can barely see it. Any tips?

Oh and I forgot to say I love this Ki-Rin! Green and Yellow are two of my favorite colors.

Thanks for your compliments. 🙂

Ok, on the Pearl Ex….are you only trying to mix it with paint in order to apply it?

Are the pearl ex you’re using the light colored, almost pearly white looking, powders with just a hint of the blue or violent color in them? These are not the ones I use if so. The Pearl Ex ones I use are the ones that are the vibrant green colors (also come in a bunch of other colors, including several shades of blues and purples). They don’t have the words ‘interference’ on the label. Here is a link to the ones I am talking about. I am using Spring Green and Duo green-yellow.

http://www.misterart.com/store/view/001/group_id/776/JACQUARD-Pearl-Ex-Powdered-Pigments.htm

I do not mix mine in with paint. With the KiRin, what I did was paint the black areas on the sculptures using Liquitex brand ivory black paint. I mixed in a little bit of metallic copper as well but not much. Once that dried, I then took a completely dry paint brush, dabbed just a ‘smidgen’ of the pearl ex green powder on it, then dabbed that powder directly onto the black areas of the sculpture that I wanted to have those metallic green highlights. Work from light to dark in both color and opaque-ness. When I got it how I wanted it, I then sprayed a coat of Krylon matte fixative over it, so that the pearl ex would not get smeared or rubbed off while I was working on other parts of the sculpture. The bright colored Pearl Ex powders I’ve found do not need to mixed with paint to become effective. I ended up using the pearl ex on both the black and the green areas of the KiRin, and I found that even on the green areas the powder showed up well, so I don’t think this method is only usable on dark colors. Granted, haven’t tried it on white yet…but I feel fairly confident about it anyway. I also bought several shades of blues and purples to use on my PYO Griffin.

Anyway, I hope this helps you somewhat?? Lemme know…I’ll try to help you out more if I can.

Oh! And also wanted to mention that I spotted these as well…which may be an alternative to the powders if you don’t like messing with that:

http://www.misterart.com/store/view/001/group_id/7687/Jacquard-Lumiere-Artist-Acrylics.htm