Hi pF amigos,

Started my next project, "Le Poilu 1916" bust, beautifully sculpted by PARISON Philippe aka URIBULL.



Primed with Vallejo black primer.


and then started painting with Jo Sonja acrylics.


Any comments, critiques, info about WW1 poilu, any posts are welcome, as always.

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Great start!

I have this fellow in the que so will follow with great interest!

Looking very nice!

Nice start!!

All the best,
Dan

Kaz Bravo, you have the domain of face painting.

http://www.mininet.tv/egminiatures.html

Cracking start KAz, great work on the face flesh, I always enjoy seing your work

Tommi

goodness gracious, that is a real looking face.

Hi Kaz

great start, which is also primed for paint-making, continue nice and slow.
Cheers

Hendryk

Nice start!

Waiting vor more.

Cheers

Good start on fleshtones!!!

Very, very good start!

Kaz you don't loose any time do you.
One finished and straight into the next one :lol: :lol:

Gorgeous face dude!

Superb face !

would you mind sharing which Jo Sonjas colors you have used for the face ?

thanks

Alex

Stunning work so far Kaz.

Cheers David

Amazing face.

Beautiful stuff.
Is that oils or acrylics it's so good I can't tell the difference?

Excellent start Kaz!
I'm curious to see the rest painted.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Thank you very much for your compliments guys, Edward, mark, Carl B, Daniel, Eduardo, Tommi, Mike, Hendryk, Martin, Chris, dave, Ronald, Stephen, Alessandro, David, Grant, Marcel!

I've never had such a compliments, thank you very much, Daniel.

Thanks Tommi such a nice praise. I'm trying to find a new sweet spot on painting face to beyond the previous ones this time.

LOL! yes you are right I'm hooked on "painting small faces seriously". (term used by my wife when she describes my hobby).

Sure. here's my Jo Sonja palette.


My palette is strongly inspired by Dimitrios and Sang-Eon Lee's palette. I admit I'm a big fan of Dimitrios' skintone and Lee's shadows.

When I make basetone I follow Dimitrios's instruction: "Burnt sienna, Raw sienna, Naples yellow hue", plus I add a small amount of "Skintone base" to lighten up the brightness. I also add "Brown Madder, Hookers green" for shadows and tanning.

See also:
http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42385&page=2
http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39415

Strange and interesting fact is that I use the same paints as painters I admire, but the result is always "goddamn my skintone!"

and...basecoat palette, as a reference.

Thanks Grant as shown above, it's all acrylics. I'm always trying to make oil-like richness with acrylics.