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It depends… Chalk pastels CAN be expensive…. if you go that route. 🙂 Of course if you do… you get more color choices… more vibrant colors… etc… 😀
I, however… go the cheep route and use “Alphacolor” or somethign similar found at michael’s etc… 😀
One day I will branche out and get better pastels… 😛
YAY! time to go home… will post more later! 😀
Chalk pastels…
Take them… crush them up into a dust… and then you “dust” the model (be it horse, gryphon, dragon or otherwise) with the color desired.
Once you have dusted or blended the pastels to your liking… you take it outside… and spray it with your clear acrylic sealer.
Basically you keep doing this until you are satisfied with the color. 😀
My gryphon… for instance… only has one layer of brown and black shaded onto her feathers. Since I’m going for the Harris Hawk look… I have a long way until her head and upper body finally reach that DEEP dark brown. 😀
I like it because it’s a way to get good subtle shading without having to fight and blend acrylics.. when generally leads (at least for me) to visible brush strokes…
DRAT and double drat… the artist who “pioneered” this method in the model horse hobby had a tutorial on her site… but she’s taken it down to redo it. Blast!
Lemme go through my links and what not when I get home… if you need more info or a more detailed description… 😀
Man I just cannot wait to get home to work on this critter some more! tempted not to go work out… 😛
Well.. when it gets slow here… it REALLY gets slow… not to mention when I’m working on a horse (or in this case… gryph… :lol:) I can’t stop thinking about it anyway… so might as well have it sit beside me at work.. grin at me… and tell me how they want to be painted.
Then I have a clear vision of how to proceed when I get home.
And my coworkers like to see my stuff too.
I made the mistake of taking her with me to work today… so I could work on her feather detailing a bit… 😯 She’s been staring at me… and talking to me all day…
I wanna go home!!!! 😆 I wanna work on her!
Oooh I like Helen! VERY nice! I love contrasty critters! 😀
And I like the Green eyes with the pattern… NOTHING clashes with B&W ^.^
Ok… so it’s nearly midnight… I’ve been working on my first PYO gryph all night… and I’m just to tickled I HAVE to show her off! 😀
And here are the full sized pics…
http://members.cox.net/desertsunstudios/Apple/gryphon%20001.jpg
One layer of pastels over an acrylic basecoat… she’ll be a really dark brown/black with red highlights…
http://members.cox.net/desertsunstudios/Apple/gryphon%20002.jpg
I’m basing her on Harris Hawks… which are native to the Sonoran Desert… ^.^ Like this…
Comments and crits are welcome… though there’s not much to crit yet… 😆
Well… I’m not too worried about getting the acrylic on there…
It’s the multiple layers of sealer…
You see I paint my model horses in pastel dust…
So the gryphon will soon be a basic base color, painted in acrylics.,.. then I’ll go over her in multiple layers of pastel dust… shading… removing it… etc to build up her color.
I’m just worried about buildup on the glass eyes… I’m pretty sure I could scrape the sealer off if I need to… but it should go on ok…
I’d still like to find the stuff… I can see masking areas in the feathers that I need to remain white… then when I’m done pasteling… remove the masking fluid and BANG… I have white feathers. 😀
ARGH… I went to Michael’s tonight… knowing that my PYO Gryphon would arrive tonight (and she did!! WOOT!)… looking for Masking fluid…
Imagine my ETERNAL frustration when I couldn’t find it at Michael’s! They had some for Watercolors… but NOTHING for use with acrylics… 👿
Add to that the fact that I couldn’t find a bloody employee in the entire store that could help me… I left… very perturbed… and without anything. 😛
Does anyone know if clear acrylic medium would work?
Or does anyone know of any place better than Michael’s to find the stuff?
My last resort is a more expensive art store. ::sighs:: I guess I’ll hit that on the way home tomorrow. 😛 At least I can get my acrylic basecoat on the gryphon tonight… before attacking her with pastels. 😀
