The figure is finally finish, very cold winter, great for this season

Hope you like it! and Mery Xmas to all!!

Excellent rendition, Ernesto. Now I really need to finish mine!

John

Ernesto,

I am always amazed at your work and this is no exception. You have made the figure look very cold indeed! Everything, right down to the snow on the branches, is so well done.

michael

Beautiful workErnest . You catchthe cold and dark feeling very nicely with your painting. The atmosphere is superb. My congratulations

Costas

Ernesto you really did a great work with this classic piece from latorre. The scenery along with the great painting...compose a very good atmosphere. Just a question...where did you get the wooden base from?

Xenofon

Looks really good ernesto !
now you can start on that Chavez bust !

Hi Ernesto
Excellent paint job and groundwork.I bet you had fun painting this figure as much as i did.I would love to know how you photographed the figure i.e. lighting etc, as photography is not my strong point
Brian

Excellent work, both the figure and the base.

marc

Hi Ernesto

Beautiful figure and base mate. Well done - a masterpiece.

Cheers

That is an example why I do paint these figures, because of people like you Ernest, because when one knows how to paint and add some suggestive atmosphere and a brilliant talent to it, it will come out as beautiful as this one. Perfect example of your master painting abilities. Fantastic , best regards.
R.

Hi Ernesto,

Nice figure as always.

This SBS helped me a lot in my skills on every figure i made since then so tks for all your help in this wonderful hobby of figure modelling

Regards and keep them rolling,

Samwel Vella

Looks great Ernesto, excellent cold look!

Very nicely done Ernesto. I have to admit, one of my favorite touches are the icicles on the branches behind him. How did you do those?

Jay H.
OKC

awesome work!!!

Hi Jay, how are you my friend, thanks for your comment mate, for the icicles I used Clear from Humbrol, it's very easy to use and effective...

Marcel thanks for your comment

Hey Samwell thanks pal, I'm glad to help any one how need it! and of course this is and amazing hobby

Thanks Robert, glad you like it my friend Im just like you, I see a lot of great works and inspire me to paint more...

Tanks Alex, Tony and Marc

Hi Brian and thanks, Photography is also not my strong, but what I do is to use two blue bulbs (white Light) one left side and other right side, I cover both with a transparent papper to soft the light a bit. The rest depends of the camera, I use a Sony Cybershot DSCH-2 5.1mp a nice camera. I recommend you to practice with all functions of the camera and DONT USE FLASH a nice tripod also helps a lot, and always use the time temp of your camera at least 2 sec to avoid any shot moving with your finger....

Virgilius LOL, no thanks pal, I'm trying to dont paint bust made with shi%$#.....

Xenofon, thanks a lot my friend, I buy the wooden base in Madrid in the Leon Rampante expo 2006, hope to buy more when I travel to Europe again

WOW! it looks great! nice setting and nice "cold" colours!

Lennart

super work,super workground,super paiting,super super super super super

Great work Ernesto as usual. Well done

Stephen Mallia

Ernesto as always superb painting. I like cold look.

M.

Ernesto,
Very nice, Very cold.
Cheers
John