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The painting is good as ever,He has a really leer about him,Bit of a ingratiating smile or Mr Pervy wink.Onwards ye go Carruthers and keep them brushes wet.
Rich.
He looks like he's posing for a photo and the kit includes a chameleon to be balanced on his right forearm to highten that affect. I used it in my first version.
Nice work on the tanned complexion, it really is difficult to step outside your normal palette with skin colours, well done.
He does favour Stan Laurel, a little, he really does seem to have had something tickle him.
Perhaps its the chameleon?
What colours did you use on the helmet and jacket?
The DAK uniform can be so varied, with it getting bleached quickly by the sun.
Its gone all misty and grey up't North and cool too.
Have a good day with the paints and enjoy the start of the Easter break, though I guess for most of us, it will seem like just another day like yesterday!
Steve H - I found the darker flesh tones hard at first - took two attempts to get more comfortable with it. The helmet was done with Vallejo Desert Yellow and Buff over Blue Grey, and the jacket is based on Camo Olive Green with a lot of white added. The trousers will be done with Stone Grey.
It's going to be hot here this weekend - so typical, when we can't get out into it.
Neil - I've since done a bit more work on the face and he's looking slightly more normal now.
Another super exhibition in drapery, well done yet again, the cuff title looks spot on, I didn't realise 1:16 had so many supporting accessories!
Looks like another good day for trousers too, perhaps even some accessories and a chameleon?
Better get on with anything outside today as its heading to a frosty Easter Monday, another typical British Bank Holiday for weather but everything else is anything but typical!
Lent finishes tomorrow and who would have thought so much would have changed since Ash Wednesday just a few weeks ago.
It will be years before we get back to anything like it used to be, and for some things it is perhaps better we don't go back to what it was!
Steve - As you can see, there was an awful lot of detail on the jacket to pick out, though I rather think that the sculptor was more concerned with getting the detail right, than thinking about the way the thing folded and creased. Should get the trousers at least done today, but will keep the accessories for later. I wasn't intending to use the chameleon, but perhaps I'll have it sitting on a jerry-can.
Warm and sunny here, then a change signalled for Monday. My in-laws are celebrating mass on-line, and rather enjoying picking and choosing where they attend - I think it was Warwick yesterday. I agree that it would be nice if some of the things Covid-19 has put a stop to stayed that way.
As a diabetic, no choccy for me tomorrow, darn it.
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