Queen Boudicca of the Iceni

[Guest]

Polux you can ask whatever you want mate, a few years ago I was a total oily wouldn't use anything else, but I changed to acrylics and that's just about all I use now, occasionally I use enamels for various bits, normally the metal cote paints for armour, but I like the drying time for acrylics and the flat matt finish

Paul

[flyjoe180]

That binding is very well done Paul. Coming along nicely. As for the Land of Mordor, it's getting warmer and lighter, summer is on it's way once you lot have finished with it.

[Guest]

Cheers Joe, well we had a pretty good one this year, makes a change, so i might have to pack up and head your way

Paul

[Guest]

WOW that figure is stunning

[Ian M]

Great to see how those faces get painted. thanks for that!

As for a fierce war chariot driver..... He looks pretty 'armless to me....

I'll get my coat.

Ian M

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Cheers Terry, glad you like it,

Ian many thanks mate, your jokes get worse

Ok I also moved on to the first horse, we have had a bit of a discussion about horses earlier, so I thought I would do some digging and find out exactly what sort of horses were around in AD 60. For some dim reason I had assumed that horses were not native to this country, it turns out the bones from a horse were found in graves and were dated 500,000 years ago, so I think its safe to say that they are native. As for types of horse, according to the Natural History Museum, there were a plethora of different types ranging from thelwell type Shetlands to cart horses and all in between, in fact the Romans took some breeds back to Italy to breed with their stock. So im going to do 2 different horses and 2 types I havnt done before, I love painting Dapples mainly because there is such a variety with them, but also because there is a stables nearby where they breed them, however because I nearly always do them im going to do a Skewbald and a Piebald, which are brown and white and black and white respectively

So the horse had a primer coat, left for 24 hours, and then a base coat, because of the size of these I paint them a bit at a time and I always start with the head.

This is the left side of the head with out shading, I use white with a touch of brown as a base coat and Raw Sienna for the patches

And this is the right side with the first lot of shading done and the eye boggle

And the left side with the first shading

I always use an off white for the base coat for white horse so that the highest highlight can be straight white

Heres the right side with the second shading done to the face and the first part of the neck, What I do is paint the base colour then as the shadow deepens I add a little black to the base colour and then a bit more each time so that as it gets nearer to the deepest part of the crease it gets darker.

And this is Max telling me to take him out for a walk

Paul

[Guest]

the highlights on that dog make it look almost real

[Guest]

cheers Harry I think I did the wet nose particularly well :P

[Ian M]

Actually thinking about it Max is doing a great service. A good reference to how the light plays on short dense hair.....

He looks to me as if he is hungry and thinking..."It's dinner time! Stop the faffing about and put that brush down".

My cats do it quite often...

Love the neddy by the bye.

Ian M

[Guest]

Ian shouldn't that be how light plays on a dense dog :P .................... Thanks mate neddy coming along OK

Paul

[Guest]

Hi all. further update to dobbin, ive laid on the blobs of brown, I think this will be a case of less is more , well more or less actually these will obviously have to be shaded and highlighted separately.

loads and loads to do to this before ill be happy with it but its getting there

Paul

[Guest]

Hi all

shading added and highlights

Ill probably add a few more blobs here and there

Paul

[Guest]

Hi Paul,

This is getting better and better!

Francesco

[flyjoe180]

Looks good Paul.

[Guest]

Cheers Francesco and Joe.

Joe looks like summer has come back again so youll have to wait a bit longer

So moved on to the other side, same as the first

Also added a few extra blobs on the right side

and made a start on the shading on the left side

And heres a new addition to our family, This is TAZ the most ferocious hound from hell you will ever meet :P . well at the moment hes just practicing by chewing my fingers, but im sure he will be when hes older

Paul