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Sweet! I love the realistic wolf colors! I agree, yours could just about get up and fly away he looks so real! Best of luck to you on his auction! 😉
Ok, don’t know how you would feel about this…but you don’t *have* to mask the eyes or horn when using the Krylon.
I did not do it on my KiRin. What I did after I was done spraying the fixative, was I used a brush on gloss on top of the eyes and even the gold horn. You cannot tell the difference, it is extremely glossy. The gloss won’t yellow over time, and it dries very hard. It is designed specifically for sculptures if I’m not mistaken.
If interested let me know and I’ll go find the name of the gloss I use. It’s upstairs somewhere in my art room. I know I bought it at Michaels and I think it was around $5. It’s a fairly small bottle but lasts a long time.
Uummmm, wow. 😯 That does not look amateur-ness at all IMO. I think it looks awesome! He is b-e-a-utiful! I love the earth tone dragons myself, and yours is very lovely. I complement you tremendously on your use of varnishing.
Ohhh it’s cool! I luvs answering questions!
Yes, you do need to seal it. I should have mentioned that.
I highly recommend using a spray sealer. If you use a brush on sealent, it will brush that powder color right away! We don’t want that…. 😯
You can use Testors Dull Coat, but I personally prefer Krylon Matte fixative. The Dull Coat makes it..well…dull. 🙄 I have often bought the Krylon it at Wal-Mart. Michaels carries it but there it’s like $7 a can and I just won’t pay that unless I’m desperate. At Walmart it’s $3.96. You need to seal it after each coat of powdered pigment you use, so that it won’t rub off or smear. And lemme tell you, that loose powder luuuuvs to get rubbed and smeared if you’re not careful! I tried to procrastinate on sealent with that KiRin I did. Yeeaaah…didn’t work so well. Ended up having to repaint one side of his black fur then reapply the pearl ex starting again.
Oooooooo, I luvs the purple and green combo! I am a big ‘ocean lover’ and he reminds me of the sea. So I think you did a good job with your color scheme! I love that idea you had on ‘outlining’ the bottom of the wing areas in dark purple. That is something I had never thought of!
You mentioned reversing the colors on a future dragon, and I think that would look really cool. Purple is one of my fav colors though, so I’m biased. 😛
Ugh, I feel your pain with the camera focus thing. It took me three tries of reading the instruction booklet before I finally found how to take close ups of my work. And I *thought* the digi cams were supposed to make your life easier! 🙄
Using it on a base color:
Say, for example, you are painting a KiRin. You hand paint the fur on the KiRin and get it how you like it but do not put any Pearl Ex in your paint. Just paint the fur however you want it using just paint. Let it dry *completely*. That is your ‘base’ color.
Now, take your jar of pearl ex. Take a *completely* dry paint brush. Dip the tip of the paint brush in the jar of pearl ex powder, then “paint” the pearl ex powder onto your KiRin sculpture, on top of the completely dried base coat of color. The type of pearl ex you have will work best on a black base coat, or any dark base coat, like dark blue, green or brown….it may not show up well if it’s on a lighter base coat. I’m not really sure to be honest with you.
Try that and see what it looks like.
Now, if what I’ve said above still does not makes sense let me know, and if you want I will try and make a photo tutorial. I’m working on a griffin right now and I’ve got a wolf I’m about to start as well. I’m sure I’ll use this method I’ve described on both of them, because they are going to have black base coats.
Try also using the powder on a base coat of paint though and see if you might like the results of that.
You can also use Liquitex brand irredescent paint, it works really well. Michael’s carries it if you have that store near you. I’ve had good luck with it anyway, and you don’t even have to worry about powders with that! 🙂
Just an advertisement-my green and gold PYO KiRin now on eBay. Thanks for lookin’ 🙂
pegasi1978 wrote:UnicornLvr wrote: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
Sweet!! I’m glad you started this one. I really liked the concept of a tropical fish KiRin. I think he looks great so far!! I just love that face marking!
Yeah, I think the wolves are the hardest. It’s the color palette on the wolves that makes it difficult for me. To me, there are only so many colors you can paint a winged wolf. With the other fantasy beasts you can get all colorful but with the wolves I like the more realistic looking colors.
I like using the powdered pigment stuff too. Can’t wait to see what yours looks like. I haven’t tried varnishing yet myself…it scares me. 😯
Thx u guys. 🙂 I’m glad you like him. I know he is not the most colorful thing compared to everyone else’s painted beasts.
Yes, Nambroth, I feel you. I have to pay taxes *every* year. Preparing for that myself….I wait until the last minute to pay the ol’ goverment. 😉 Can’t wait till I get done with school, start teaching, and then OMG…maybe I’ll start getting money BACK! Woo Hoo!
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!
My first PYO Kirin. More colorful than my last two painted pieces. I made a point of staying away from brown tones this time.
When you get a chance, lemme know what you think, be it good or bad. I scheduled him an eBay auction to start this evening. Thank you for taking the time to look! 😉 I thank you in advance for any comments or criticisms!
Many photos can be viewed here:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/557749626TEAESt?start=12Just a shameless advertisement of my first dragon that’s hit ebay.
Thank you for taking time to view. Much appreciated! 😉
