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Title: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: penmeyer on January 09, 2014, 05:20:16 PM

Hello all, my New Year's resolution is to try to participate and share a little more on the forums.
Here I present my latest project, a Quadri Concept Red Lancer. This is the grey scale underpainting in-progress. There is still more to be done. However, I am giving a demonstration on Saturday at the SCAHMS meeting of how I add color over the grey scale so the next photo will be a bit abnormal my process. Not sure how I will handle it after that.
The paints I am using are Dick Blick and Utrecht Matte Liquid Acrylics. I make my greys with a very dark blue, burnt umber and a cream color.
I will try to post the progression of this figure from this time forward.
I am not used to these message boards so please forgive me while I learn proper protocol.
-penny meyer

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: marko on January 09, 2014, 06:14:50 PM

Greetings Penny,


This is stunning even in this early form.  This should be an interesting exercise for the acrylic painters here to observe.


If you have any questions about the forum/protocol please feel free to ping me or the moderators.


-cheers


Mark  8)

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: errant49 on January 10, 2014, 02:45:32 AM

Hi Penny
Great to have you here and so have the opportunity of learning new ways and technics
Hope you will soon become a member
Eric

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Roger on January 10, 2014, 02:59:24 AM

Welcome Penny, I'm looking forward to following your progress with the lancer.

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Nicholas Ball on January 10, 2014, 04:32:43 AM

Welcome Penny, good to have you on here, and I look forward to seeing this progress.

I'd be quite happy to leave it as it is!!! :)

 Nicholas

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Roger on January 10, 2014, 04:42:56 AM

Quote from: Nicholas Ball on January 10, 2014, 04:32:43 AM

I'd be quite happy to leave it as it is!!! :)

 Nicholas

Lol, that's what I thought too.  ;D

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Brian on January 10, 2014, 04:55:34 AM

Well that makes at least three of us  ;) but you'll see Penny will bring it to life!!   no pressure there then  ;D ;D   

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Glen on January 10, 2014, 12:25:36 PM

Oooh... nice! A great job in it's own right - and that's before the color! Standing by...


Glen

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: PJDeluhery on January 10, 2014, 04:06:37 PM

Hi Penny! Great to see you here. Looking forward to watching your progress here.  WELCOME.

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: penmeyer on January 14, 2014, 12:53:42 PM

So, how do I become a member officially?
I do not know the most efficient way to post progress on this piece so I will just keep adding to this string for now until someone suggests a better way.
I was able to do a demonstration at a SCAHMS club meeting the other day. The flat is not exactly where I want it to be on the grey scale for coloring but that is what the demo was, color over the grey scale.

I used various red acrylics. Utrecht, Blick, and Apple Barrel craft acrylics. I had a burgundy red which is dark and is a bit purple-brown-alizarin crimson looking. I used a scarlet red for medium red and a red-orange for the highlight.
The back end of the blanket and the pants have no more than 3 layers of transparent washes. For the short demonstration, I then focused on one area, the front of the blanket and proceeded to layer at least 10 layers of color washes over this area. I added a white-ish yellow into the orange and thinned it way down and that was the highest key highlight on the hump. I have to say though that there are not very many molecules of white-yellow in that wash. It barely tinted the area. I still want the underpainting to show through at this point.
I will now finish the underpainting on the rest of the figure before I continue with the coloring.

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: marko on January 14, 2014, 01:08:20 PM

Penny,


The easy way to membership is via your Profile under Account Settings - Paid Subscriptions.  Via PayPal you can become a member and your account will be automagically adjusted at the same time.


Send me a message if you have any questions, thank you for the interest and great tutorial here.


Mark


P.S. The method you are showing progress on the figure is just fine.  One nice tip is to embed pictures - there is some info here:


http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?topic=27.msg406#msg406 (http://www.intflatfigures.org/index.php?topic=27.msg406#msg406)

There is a longer more clear tutorial in the FAQ section or you have something more in depth in mind just sent me a message with your contact details and I can call you or we can correspond.  I could probably assist you in putting something together if you could supply the content.

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Glen on January 18, 2015, 11:10:12 AM

Did this thread die? I was looking forward to its completion, but it's been a year since the last post...


Glen

Title: Re: Quadri Concept Red Lancer in progress
Post by: Hannibal on January 19, 2015, 04:25:50 AM

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