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I started painting my first Phoenix last night-I have a wide variety of brushes, some liquid paint thinner, blending gel…but I am wondering-when you guys mix your paints, do you mix them….where? On a paper plate, some special paper (I saw something mentioned in the PYO section here) in tiny little paint vats?
Also-when painting tiny areas (like most of the Phoenix lol) how do you keep stray hairs from your brush touching something they’re not supposed to? I was so super careful when I was painting her feet and paint still got on the rock and on the leg feathers-just a tiny amount, but it detracts from the asthetics of the paint job. The brush I was using was a nice quality brush and it was fairly newish-meaning it doesn’t have bristles sticking out everywhere-I should post a pic when I get home.
Should I really mask off every area I dont want to get paint on that is close to the area Im painting?
Also-has anyone made or taken pictures of a step by step process of how they paint? I remember seeing one recently of a wolf being painted-base coat, shading, highlights, fine details-but I havent been able to find it again.
I use cheap plastic palettes – they’re 99 cents at Michael’s and they have a large round well in the center and 10 small wells surrounding it. I use retarder in my paints and then cover the palette with a couple of pieces of cling wrap when I’m not using them.
As for the stray paint – since I use retarder it’s easier to correct, but even if you’re not using retarder, you can quickly clean your brush when you notice it, then “paint” over the area that you got the stray paint on to take it off – clean your brush every couple of swipes and keep “painting” with the slightly wet, clean brush until you’ve gotten it off. You may want to just have a spare brush on hand for this – I just grab a clean brush and get it wet when that happens to me. And trust me, it happens a lot!! If you catch it in time before it starts drying it should look like it was never there. Again, retarder helps with this because it keeps the paints wet for longer 🙂
I’m wary of using any type of masking on my PYO’s, especially areas that have been painted. I can only see my paints getting lifted off 🙁
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I don’t mask anything except the eyes/horns if applicable. I can try and take a step by step photo of the next one I paint! I do have a youtube video up showing how I work on part of a labradorite griffin.
A lot of the quality of your stroke comes from how you load your brush with paint and it’s something that is hard to teach without showing you. This forum thread discusses a little of what I mean: http://wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=821742
Though it shows a round brush, you can do this with other shapes to get all the bristles to where they need to be.
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My art: featherdust.comDo you have a link to your youtube video Jennifer? I’d be interested in watching it 😀
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!When I mix paint I use baby food jars. Tiny jars of baby food cost about 40 cents at Walmart and I think they are worth it for the jars. That way I can seal the jar and use that specific color for a couple weeks.
I use the little plastic palettes for blending as well. And trust me, you will get paint in areas you don’t want. It happens to me all the time. So much so I sometimes don’t bother being neat in the beginning blocking stages. 😈
I have a step-by-step muse thread I did at someone’s request. Just know that everyone’s painting style is different. You can’t force yourself to paint a certain way, but it helps to see different painting processes. You will eventually find something that works for YOU. 🙂
And something else I found out-dont paint near your other Windstones and dont wear clothing you like. I was shaking up a bottle of Pepto Bismol pink paint and SOMEHOW the lid and got loose and it sent pink paint over ME, my phoenix, shirt, sweater, desk and some innocently bystanding boxes. I was AFRAID to look at my other Windstones for fear of finding aweful pink all over them. Someone somewhere must really like me because there wasn’t a DROP anywhere on anything REALLY important-dragons, laptop, wacom, cell phone and flat screen monitor included. *exhales*
I know the feeling there Wolfen!! Often when I’m getting near the end of a squeeze bottle of paint i hold up a hand or a paper towel around it as I’m getting the last bits of paint out.. they spit very often when they’re 3/4 of the way done.. Once in a while though, I’ll forget to, and I’ve ruined many shirts that way!
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!I was using the “Puff paint” to put a name on a lunch box or something and it had that glob of dryed paint at the end of the point so I squeezed a little harder and POP! Gliddery paint went everywhere….lol
Oops! It wasn’t a Lab griffin.. it was the Sun Griffin. My mistake!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEbkmxFgYVAI was very nervous when filming this so I sound jittery.
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My art: featherdust.comYou don’t sound jittery at all 🙂 And you have birds, I should have known!! I love birds, my Cockatiel, named Joe, recently passed away 🙁 It was like losing a brother – we had him for 13 years, though he was well into his 20’s when he passed. Birds are fantastic though <3
Thanks for posting the link! I feel better seeing you work with your fingers a little on him – for whatever reason I always feel like I’m doing something crude when I pat paint off with my fingers, even though I’ve been using them as painting tools for most of my life 😆
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!OK maybe this is a dumb question-but do you guys use metallic paints on your dragons to get them shiny? Or does their shiny-ness come after they’ve been sealed?
I’ve not yet used metallic paints on any of my PYO’s. Any of the metallic or slightly glittery look from mine have been from interference. Otherwise, yes they look pretty matte unless you spray/brush them with a gloss topcoat.
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