Well it's that time of year and I'm fully into silly season. Frantic week at work before we go into change freeze and lots of family stuff over the weekend so not much progress.
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| Spirit of the Forest |
I played some more with the OSL and used some of the Liquitex ink as the glaze on the face, hands in lower legs. Although the legs are quite far away from the eyes I want to make some harsh highlights on the tops of the legs to enforce the OSL effect.
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| Base |
On the base I repainted the tree stumps to look more like birch trees. I also did the resin pour on the pond. Like the fountain for the Violinist diorama I used clear casting resin. I dries in a day normally unlike the Liquid Gloss that takes a week. You just have to be very careful with the harder ratio so as not to cook the resin. I think I may have done this incorrectly (always hard in such a small batch) as the top of the surface of the pond has a slight ripple. However that is fine as I was planning on using Vallejo Water Effects after on the surface.
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| Pond close up |
I wanted some ferns on the base so ordered some brass etched ones. In all my diorama books everyone uses brass/laser cut paper for ferns rather than diy ones. I've never used brass etch before so some learning up ahead for that. Now I need to work out what else greenery can be added to the base. Some reeds for the pond will be first. I'm also thinking of draping some vines/etc over the figure too.
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