Octopus

Ciao Guys!

What I'm introducing is a beautiful bust by JMD, that I find out really funny to paint.

The color palette I used was very different and quite unusual for me and it was as follows:

- Green overseas Allegro

- Bluette Allegro

- Bordeaux Allegro

- Bright green Allegro

- Yellow Allegro

- Orange Allegro

- Yellow green Vallejo model color

- Dheneb stone Games workshop

I used also this following 5 ink by Pelikan 

- Light green

- Vermillion

- Yellow

- Ultramarine

- Sepia

For this model as well as the "strange" palette, I wanted to try a different technique, esactly the " wet blending", which involves the use of color very diluted so as to mix it directly on the model , thus creating extremely soft shades.

I started with a base of Green overseas Allegro throughout the piece, and then I worked on individual sections, trying to blend by bordeaux to yellow through bright green, blue and orange, and trying to maintain at the same moment a cold effect on the pieces.

My idea behind it was to try to recreate an iridescent color that recalls the great mimicry skintone of a real octopus.

For the tentacles lower parts I chose a warm color fading from red to yellow to contrast as well the skin tone and to create a better frame around the face.

After that, (except for the details like eyes, suckers  and plaques on the top of the head) I painted the whole piece with pelikan inks trying to create a better blend with underlying colors , this is just because Allegro colors finishing is very dull and I wanted a extremely glossy skintone.

The head plaques effects are made almost entirely with pelikan ink, on an acrylic base of GW Dheneb stone I really stippled the Sepia ink focusing most of the color in the shadows zone and once dry the first layer of ink I spreaded the inks Ultramarine and Light green and at the end I passed a gloss lack to increase the glossy effect

In conclusion, I have to admit that is good get out of the "own safe zone" to try new techniques and colors rarely used and , in addition to being fun , the changing improves ourself and evolves own techniques.

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I hope that this little explaination of my techniques will be useful.

Guys see u in the next piece!

Andrea "R.I.P." Nicolini