Turcopole - Memorial Bust Monreale 2013

Hello Guys

This is the last piece that with a lot of pleasure I had in my hands.

I don't want repeat what my colleagues already wrote, but I can only say you have to got it in your hand, the signature of Mariano Numitone style is simply amazing!

The piece is really enjoyable to paint and despite the "simplicity" it leaves much space for hundred interpretations.

Talking about my version, I started doing a bit of research and in the end I opted to try a middle eastern skintone keeping it enough on warm and brown tones.

I did a bit of effort, being the first attempt on it, but I'm quite happy about the result.

For the cloak and turban I chose black colour, where I overdid the lights with grey to give the impression of sunburned fabric, and at the end I gave a slight haze of yellow ink to increase this effect.

For the "scarf " around the face, the choice fell on a cold color (turquoise ) to frame the face and at the same time to enhance the warm skintone. For the light I deliberately desaturated enough just because I just want it as neutral element of the bust, so favoring the face.

On the jacket I used as a mid tone a brown colour, lightened with ivory colour on the lights and darkened with black colour on shadows. At the end I gave some washing of Sepia and burnt sienna ink by pelikan to saturate it a bit.

Thanks for your attention.

Here's the link to:

- Putty &Paint

for those who want to support me by voting and commenting .

See you with the next job.

Andrea "R.I.P." Nicolini

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She Felt..

"She didn't feel ..

..only wet sand under her feet

..only the cool morning breeze of in her hair

..only the warm tears on her face

..But..only empty words of a Farewell forever written."

Hello guys.

She felt, is a small project started last year in a chilling evening in my corner.

But, it passed too much time in the Wip showcase...graying, its pure youth soul.

Starting from Miranda by HasslefreeMiniatures, I just had to create slots in both hands, where to put the letter pages, made by thin sheets of aluminum taken by the little chocolate wrappers (eaten during my painting sessions).

The conversion was simple..but effective in my opinion.. 

I painted starting with a black primer base, to which I added the zenithal light in white color with the airbrush.

It was painted with acrylic colors. I used it as a study of zenithal light in a very bright ambience.

The waves have been made with the Still Water effect of water Vallejo and cotton balls.

The plinth is by 27Rosso

So..Here you are the pics..I hope you like it

And here's the link to:

- CMON 

- Putty &Paint

for those who want to support me by voting and commenting.

Cheers

Cesare “Trevis_11” Trevisiol

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Turcopole Memorial Bust Monreale 2013

Ciao Guys!

Today I want to show you my latest work.

Turcopole Memorial Bust Monreale 2013

I managed to get this bust participating (unfortunately for me not to live) to the beautiful exhibition of Monreale 2013, for the occasion the club gifted this subject to all entrants.

Knowing that the bust was sculpted by the legendary Mariano Numitone I immediately took care to pick up my copy to paint it!

Before talking about the painting, I would like to mention the sculpture.

In the world of modeling, the small-scale busts are often underestimated busts because usually modeller prefers to paint an entire subject or a bust on a large scale to have more impact in exhibitions and competitions.

Actually a simple subject like this can go unnoticed while for the moments of I find it is very relaxing! It allows you in really few time to get it ready to paint without spend hours to create the ambience, put pins and plaster.

In essence this bust, thanks to the wonderful cleaning of the sculpture is a great pastime among a project and the other ( mainly when we are talking about huge projects) it allows you to relax.

And it's highly recommended for those who want to train on the fabrics just because the perfect sculpture of the fabric folds and the softness of the quilted jacket!

For the painting I started with a black base on which I placed with the airbrush the first light using an ivory color.

After I laid the first base with the inks and using the web to gather information on this subject, I decided the colors based upon the painting tables I found during my image research.

The main bases (winsor and newton ink) are:

- ultramarine blue

- sepia

- carmine red

- green forest 

all these inks are for fabrics, to which I added controlled yellow glazes to give the idea of the sunlight that lights up the subject in the sunset.

From this point, I added the shadows with Raw Umber (acrylic) and lights with white ivory (acrylic), and how shadows and end to the profiling I used the black ink diluted with water 50:50 and for the points of final light titanium white.

For the metal I started from a basic black ink (pellikan) and I added the Games Workshop Boltgun Metal and finally with the metallic ink Winsor and Newton as the final light

For the skin tone I used various glazes with inks carmine red and brown on a acrylic Tortora color base and Ivory white for the lights.

Here's the link to:

- CMON 

- Putty &Paint

for those who want to support me by voting and commenting .

Thanks you for the attention.
See you on the next work!

Max "Amon" Richiero

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Workyard by Trevis 15th January

Ciao Guys!

It was a long time that I wasn't posting anything, especially in my favorite section, the workyard.

This year the 11-12-13 of July, as you know there is a World Model Expo in Stresa, and therefore we have a lot of irons in the fire here in Hysteria Yard Team, although by my projects are just thrown on a piece of paper and then left to gather dust in some drawer of my Workyard..

Ah ha!!! Talking about workstation, with my family in december we moved into a bigger house ( ok not really big..just a bit bigger) ,where I have a room all for myself where I can work.

And then I passed the last two month visiting IKEA store, second hand furniture shops and finding furnitures abandoned on the side of the road..and slowly slowly my workyard is expanding .. here's a little preview.

The side for manual and dirt jobs, painting desk, photography corner (it is still a draft, but it is already functional), and above all plenty of space for friends who want to come visit and paint with me..so anyone wants to come to enjoy it there is place for everyone!

My Workyard is your workyard!

But back to us! In recent days, I picked up old projects that were in the drawer or by already started on the cabinet, but that for reasons of time, and to be honest probably also for mental exhaustion they have stagnated for a long time. I show you somethings..come with me..

For example..but just an example..I'm having a lot of experimenting and also fun with various water effects..

Or I'm tryng to evoke some otherworldly creature (do not deny that drawing the pentagram, I felt a bit in subjection)

And above all, probably, I will enjoy with a dear friend and colleague to play the game Malifaux..and here are the experiment of my two first pieces to do only for me. Believe me this is the first time.

Well I won't keep you too long..I hope you like this little visit to my Workyard..

and we'll see you very soon

Cheers!

Cesare "Trevis_11" Trevisiol

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Turcopole - Memorial Bust Monreale 2013

Hello guys

A few days ago I posted the workyard with turcopole bust sculpted by Mariano Numitone, you can go and see it at the following link.

In the end, with a stroke of the brush, I concluded it

We were been to the skintone, and finally I added to my third light Palesand VMC up to the pure Palesand for the latest highlights.

I opened the set of the Brown Andrea colour with the hood.

I am very satisfied, although there are no tones but it is pretty much just a scale of brown.

The colors got a beautiful and dull finishing and the cromatic scale is convincing.

To give a bit of depth I added some haze of green in the shadows followed by the blue colour in the deepest shadows and I added a bit of khaki vmc for the final lights.

The turban has received a coat of flat black andrea + khaki vmc 50/50, and I simply went up with the lights adding khaki and I went into the shadows by adding black.

In conclusion, it's a pleasure paint this bust, forms slide beneath the brush without you even realize it.

I don't exclude that I could start another one with a different color scheme.

I just remember that you can find still few copies in 27Rosso!

Here as follow the pictures!

If you want to vote it or comment it, you found it on CMON and on PuttyandPaint.

See you soon!

Samuel "Sam" Diociase

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Marcomannic warrior

Hello everyone

This is the last piece that I finished a few weeks ago, and was the first after I had surgery on my hand, so I didn' t try anything new, strange or different, I just focused more to come back to manual and mainly have fun.

Before painting it, I tried to find a bit of informations about the Marcomanni in the web, but I admit I found a few little tables and some other already painted miniatures.

Then I got carried away by the free imagination trying to keep the very natural tone, not overdo it with lights and shadows or oversaturate colors.

I wanted also that the character himself would give the idea of an bleak autumn/winter environment, so I made a cool skin tone, while trying to stay on a pale tone that reflected his red hair that I deliberately oversaturated to frame as better as possible the face.

About the Freehand on the shield I absolutely don't think that is "historically correct", but I wanted to do the same.

The reason is simple and a bit funny, this miniature was given to me years ago by a friend of mine and it was the first historian piece to arrive in my hands,

For a long time it was long in the cabinet mounted, filled and primered but being a gift that I cherish a lot, I've been waiting to get to a worthy level before painting it.

Meanwhile (we are talking about few years ago) one evening I was scribbling out this freehand in a little piece of sheet and I thought there would have been good on the marcomannic warrior's shield. So after I preserved this piece of paper for years and managed not to lose it in 2 movings it was really a matter of principle to use that drawing for the Freehand.

The ambience is intentionally very simple just because I cannot see the historical pieces in “photographic” poses with too complex environments, also wanted a really bleak and barren environment.

I admit that here I could also put a bit of snow, but then I didn't want to overdo for fear of to load too much this piece, that the skintone coat and jacket got already cold tones.

Here's the link to:

- Putty &Paint

for those who want to support me by voting and commenting .

Guys, I hope that you like and see u in the next piece!

Andrea "R.I.P." Nicolini

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Workyard by Sam 08th January

Ciao Guys!

In a day's break from the commissions I ventured into this beautiful Bust a Memorial bust of MonReale 2013, sculpted by Mariano Numitone wich represent a Turcopole.

The height of the bust is 50mm

You can find this bust here on 27Rosso

I was looking for a skintone rather cold and dark, trying not to lose while the brightness.

I proceeded as follows:

Primer: Black primer coat and after the second coat of white primer

Base: beige red VMC+Medium flashtone VMC+ navy blue Andrea
First light: base tone + pale sand VMC
Second light: base tone+ palesand VMC+ kakhi VMC
First shadow: scab red GW
Second shadow: scab red gw+ navy blue Andrea
Tone: glazing with the base tone base
Third shadow: navy blue Andrea
Third light: base tone + palesand VMC (more than the second light)+kakhi VMC
Tone: glazing with catachan green GW 

and here the pics

I hope you like it.

Cheers

Samuel "Sam" Diociase

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