Sunburnt Black A Tutorial

Gigi is my NAMoPaiMo challenge project and here is how I did her.

 

 

 

For this tutorial I will be using earth pigments and Rembrant black pastel . I am doing the Sunburnt black on the Gigi resin and I will be doing a bay on the Breyer pony .

Start with prepped primed white model

 Liberally apply cypress umber warm earth pigment dust or blow off excess and seal I am using Krylon Matte to seal . I applied blue painters tape to her legs since she is planned to be a minimal tobiano .

Repeat until you achieve a nice red bay color . At this point my pony was very Grainy .

Optional Step to repair graininess.. I would normally do a layer and then seal with Krylon crystal clear gloss... But I apparently am out the Rustoleum Matte enamel did pretty good but I still prefer the Krylon. After this I walked away for an hour to let the rustoleum dry well.

 

 

Start layering black here I am using vine black earth pigments . I used a eraser pencil to add the initial dapples.

 

More Cypress umber warm and more vine black .

There was also some shading with Cypress umber dark .

Dapples were done again with a kneaded eraser on about every other layer of pigment.

 

Now I wanted to see where they were at so I blocked in the manes with black acrylic paint .

 

 

Here we have more shading using the Cypress warm earth pigments and the Rembrandt black pastel .  I did multiple layers of black pastel on Gigi with the kneaded eraser being used to bring back the brown tones any where I wanted them as needed

 

 

Here is where we are at the end of the body color. Now for what feels like a million layers of white paint for their markings.

 

Back to Blogging !!??!!

Long time no blog . I know, in all fairness I never pretended to be good at this.

But since there are some people who do not do facebook and instagram and mail chimp takes me forever to put together an email I am going to try this .

First whats up there are multiple items listed in the Etsy Shop .. including the following....

 And much more !!! Also up for offers until Friday night is this adorable little Tadpole resin . this little stinker has many layers and tons of detail that just doesn't quite show up in pictures .
 You can see his ad on MH$P the remainder of my MH$P listings are here.

 

And lastly a sneek peek . While I am waiting on answers for my two orders I am working on getting my turks head and Spanish ring knots down this will be a futurity knot brow band head stall . I haven't decided on reins as of yet but I am learning the knots what you see in this picture is a full days work ( only the knots and a curb strap) I hade made the majority of the headstall the day before .

I am not sure if this headstall will be sold or kept time will tell . But I thought to maybe work some true knot work in to the upcoming orders. And future Etsy pieces