As of lunchtime today:
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Pete,
looking good.Comment
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Wonderful work Peter. I must say though, I too would look like him if someone had cut my hand off as well! LOLComment
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Afternoon Peter just reporting in from gardening duties, was nearly looking like him.
Goes with out saying that the face you have painted knocks the spots off the box art.Comment
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Scottie - Cheers. Just finished the back of the hood and put in the last line of stitches - took me much longer than I thought it would.
Stevie J - Yes, it must have hurt.
John - Thank you. I'm really enjoying this one. 200mm (1/9) is much kinder to the eyes as well.Comment
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Morning Peter
Your gurning figure is defiantly going to win the big cheese at the county faire!
Well painted, with character.
The bolero hood is an unusual item, not seem that before.
Frosty start up here, and I think I have finally emerged from the opiate fog of post surgical pain management!
Everything aches, and the wound is itching, all good signs, and I can feel it all without immediately leaping for the pain killers.
No Pain , no gain LOL
Maybe I'll be able to sit up at the dinning table today, and look at my Stug III GB build?
I shall not be venturing out, no real point with a 6,700 majority to the resident MP.
Should be fun tomorrow to see what has happened, then back the serious business of modelling!
Hopefully a light day for the paintwork?
Have fun
Regards
Steve HComment
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Morning Steve.
Glad to see that, despite emerging dusty and wounded from the tunnel, your escape plan worked. Sounds like all went well and you're on the mend. Wishing you the best with your recovery.
Venturing out later to add my say in a very marginal seat, then awaiting the arrival of my eldest and granddaughter for Christmas. Scrubbed and tidied the house yesterday, which was pretty pointless as it will be a tip by this evening.
Really enjoying this figure. Despite being more like caricatures, they are very nice to paint, and it is after all about having fun. Have also added these to the stash:
Should keep me busy over Christmas.Comment
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I have to say ,Peter this is very much the making of a silk purse from a sow's ear!
You've already knocked the box art into a cocked hat.
I must say I wouldn't have bothered with this pathetic sculpt myself at all,sorry( let's hope it's not by someone I know..........:tongue-out3
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Hi Neil
Glad you approve so far. I know it's not a great sculpt, but I wouldn't go so far as to describe it as pathetic. It doesn't come anywhere near the realism of the Young's busts I've been doing, but I prefer to see it as a 'character' sculpt. It's one of the early American busts, so you're probably safe!
Any road up:
The torso and arms are nearly done. Unfortunately, the light started to go at midday, so I was forced to down brushes. Not an entirely smooth session, as I messed up the right arm, so I had to strip it down and re-do it.Comment
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Nice to hear you are back among the happy festive frong(Or is it thong),Hope the foggy feeling after being in the Opiate den is subsiding,My wife has had many operations due to Rheumtoid Arthritis,You could be like Mr Swaineys mother in One foot in the grave and have a bell and whistle and stick to klonk and devise a code system so your nearest and dearest come running after deciphering the clanging and whistles.
All the best from Richard and Helen.Comment
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Nicey nice Mr Pierre mon ami.The light is dreadful today and at lunchtime like dusk here on a very windy and stigian gloom of Clacton.Had the mother of Hypos a little while ago and dropped to nearly 4 and worst ive ever felt.Good job i had an egg sandwich to hand.Just been making Scotch eggs with quality sausages by Heck and crushed seeds for coating.
Pip pip onk onk.
Rich.Comment
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Hi Richard.
Sorry to hear about the hypo. I had my worst one ever while we were in Wiltshire in November - honestly thought I was going to die.Comment
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Morning Peter
Reasonable progress under the circumstances with the lighting and the family arriving too.
Looks like another grim and gloomy day today, so not much painting, but plenty of family time, which is a nice for you all.
Richard, the opiate fog is receding, and if I ever tried a bell, whistle and stick system with Anna, I would be beaten to death with the stick and have both the bell and whistle inserted into the closest orifice for good measure.
Hope you're feeling better today Richard?
Enjoy the day with paint and/or family
Regards
Steve HComment
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Morning Steve
Full-on here at Day Mansions. The little pickle is keeping me entertained and the jealous dog is as demanding as ever. Hopefully I'll get our man's helmet done at least today, if I can see it in this appalling light - even the daylight bulb doesn't seem to help.Comment
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Hi Peter
Great painting of the face - sour faced b****r though.
Been there, done that - but at least when they leave you'll all have had a great time. When our little one leaves it is a task to put back, in their places, all the ornaments/knick-knacks which old foggies like us have collected over the years. She loves to "look" at them. She is very careful but they all end up in wrong places :rolling:
JimComment
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