Kuri, 1/10th bust

[Tim Marlow]

Brilliant face colouring and the eyes are amazing.
That small tuft on the birds head makes me think of a kestrel.

Now that’s a good call. An American kestrel would be very colourful in this context…..very pretty bird compared to the UK variant.

[PaulinKendal]

To be honest, folks, I'm just going to paint it as a generic falcon - if it's pretty and looks credible, I'll be happy.

[PaulinKendal]

Here's a merlin, looking very much like my one. The Merlin is even described as having a 'blocky head'.

[Tim Marlow]

Good call. Great looking bird as I said……

[PaulinKendal]

Not there yet...

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good though. Beak and eyes look splendid.

[Steve Brodie]

Looking good,
Which store did you get the dryer from for £11.99

[PaulinKendal]

Looking good,
Which store did you get the dryer from for £11.99

Boots - a men's compact dryer, just two heat settings, just the job.

[Steve Brodie]

Boots - a men's compact dryer, just two heat settings, just the job.

will have to keep a look out for one

[PaulinKendal]

So, Royal purple for her gown, creamy lambswool cuff.
Poor bird.

[PaulinKendal]

Best bit of freehand painting I've done so far. I used heavy body off-white thinned with white ink for the flowers.

Choosing an organic pattern on folded cloth made it easier than if I'd tried a regular repeating pattern on the orange cloth - fewer places to hide mistakes there, and the eye picks out irregularities in a repeating pattern very quickly.

It's still far from perfect - zoom in and you'll see a fair bit of 'hairiness' to the margins of the flowers, but it's good progress for me.

The purple was painted following the advice of YouTuber Vince Venturella - shaded with, improbably, bright yellow which, mixed with purple produces a brown that's both darker than the purple (go figure, we're mixing pigments, not pure colour) and a brown that responds very sympathetically to washes of blue-black ink and the original purple (a colour that tends to be fairly transparent anyway).

The purple is highlighted with pale flesh, which again works very well indeed. Purple is definitely now in my 'easy' paints to use - unlike orange, which remains a challenge!

[Tim Marlow]

Very nice work. Freehand looks excellent…….not my best skill, I’m too impatient. Good work on the purple. That’s colour wheel in action, opposites go well together, and also make more interesting “darks” for shading when mixed.
Orange is hard because it’s transparent. Usually I go with a brown to ivory transition gradient and then tint it with Daler FW ink orange. It’s a high pigment ink, but it’s still transparent……mostly I try to avoid orange all together though :tongue-out3:

[PaulinKendal]

Working on her headgear. I think the top section is done, but only just started on the fur trim.

[banjer]

This is progressing nicely Paul. Very brave of you to post such unforgivingly large images but you work stands up tp it.

Superb.


Bill

[adt70hk]

Paul,

Just had a catch-up! That is coming along beautifully. Keep up the great work.

ATB.

Andrew