Bones II Sea Hag: 77276

[Pingo 108172]

This is Julie Guthrie's sea hag, part of the core set of the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter.

 

To begin with, I cleaned up  the flash some, scrubbed her with soap and warm water, and primed her with Reaper's Brown Liner.  When that had dried nicely I painted up her flesh with a pale sky blue and layered first a brick red color, then a pale yellow on her base for sand color.

 

Edited January 10, 2016 by Pingo

[Pingo 108172]

I've decided to give her a bright red dress.

 

I started by mixing a deep opaque rose pink, since otherwise trying to paint mostly transparent red straight on her would be an exercise in frustration.

 

I'm leaving the hanging tatters on her right arm because to my eye they look like seaweed, and I like the idea of green seaweed and red dress rags mingling at the bottom.  This is also when I noticed that she has a small octopus clinging to her left arm. Cute!

 

This is what the dress looks like with a true red glazed over the rose pink.

[Glitterwolf 161233]

I never noticed the octopus before,

 

These are more detailed then meets the eye.

 

I like the seaweed approach.

[kay13 14512]

Love where you are going with this!

[Pingo 108172]

I painted some assorted greens where I wanted the kelp to be.

 

I noticed that not only does she have a tiny octopus on her left arm, she has an even tinier crab on her right arm!

 

 

Someone recently commented how my figures look awful in the midst of being painted and then pull together at the end.  I had to laugh, because this figure is so far a really good illustration of the first part of that.

[Laoke 3663]

Better than the other way around, Ping : )

[Pingo 108172]

While doing an entirely different project I had some dull pale green, so I brushed some over her skin so it isn't quite so starkly one shade of blue.

 

[Pingo 108172]

I felt her coloration was harsh and flat, so I mixed up a transparent purple out of Phthalo Green and Quinacridone Magenta and washed it all over her and where her shadow would be.

 

I started to paint up her face and some of the barnacles on her.

 

[Pingo 108172]

I refined the shading with layers of transparent purple shadows and pale blue highlights, some whites on the barnacles and things.

 

 

 

The sculptor (Julie Guthrie) must have had fun adding tiny bits of sea life.  The last things I did were base coats on a tiny octopus (purple), crab (pink), and starfish (pale green).

Edited August 28, 2015 by Pingo

[Guindyloo 47270]

Really loving this!

[Pingo 108172]

Had some pale vermilion, so I softly brushed it on to highlight the red dress and added some to the crab.

 

To be honest, a lot of how this figure has gone has been based on whatever colors I happen to have mixed for other figures and this one is sort of lying around.  It is accumulating a paint job more than being painted, I think.

[knarthex 59777]

Had some pale vermilion, so I softly brushed it on to highlight the red dress and added some to the crab.

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To be honest, a lot of how this figure has gone has been based on whatever colors I happen to have mixed for other figures and this one is sort of lying around.  It is accumulating a paint job more than being painted, I think.

Whatever works to get them done!

 

I have that habit as well, if a mini I am working on needs a color I am using....

Paint On!

 

8)

George

[ub3r_n3rd 152214]

EWW!! She looks horrid, in a great way!

[LittleBluberry 33590]

I especially love the diagram you did, pointing out where all the hidden details are.  That will be very helpful for the rest of us when we try to paint our sea hags. 

 

I also love how the eyes are so sharp and well defined.  It makes them stand out amongst the more fluid details of the seaweed and dress.  Very appropriate for the monster personality as well. 

[Pingo 108172]

I took a rich transparent Quinacridone Crimson and glazed over the Sea Hag's dress.  It pulls the red colors of the dress together and makes them really deep and intense.

 

I washed some dark transparent brown (Raw Umber) over her sea critters and dress.

 

 

Then I painted lavender highlights on her octopus.