Mierot is taking the random rainbow dragon challenge!

[Mierot]

I need an excuse to get out of a painting rut, so challenge accepted!

 

 

The Dragon: Ebonwrath (because the Bones 3 dragons are not yet in the online store)

 

Let the randomness begin. The fates have selected:

 

 

Primary color: Cloudy Grey (16)

Secondary color: Lemon Yellow (5)

Tertiary color: Orange Brown (4)

 

Oh my. I'll have to think about this one. With those colors, I'll go all in with the three star challenge. Why not... 

Edited November 20, 2017 by Mierot

[Cyradis]

Welcome to the challenge! Adding you to the WIP list 

[Mierot]

I love it when the mail arrives with a box from Denton, TX. 

 

Time for some bending, gluing, and green-stuffing.

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

Good way to get out of a rut! Good luck!

[Mierot]

On 11/29/2017 at 8:03 PM, Pezler the Polychromatic said:

Good way to get out of a rut! Good luck!

 

Thanks!

 

 

I had only a couple opportunities to work with the dragon this past week. With a few dips in hot water and then an ice water bath (she must be a Roman dragon), the ever-so-straight wings are now curved and glued onto the body, along with the head. I decided to experiment a bit and, instead of my normal green stuff, I used some milliput to fill in the wing gaps and to smooth over the head join. Once it cures and dries I'll sand any rough areas away.

[Mierot]

There is paint on my dragon!

 

I decided to sketch in the basic colors to help me later on in the process. So far only the core three of cloudy gray, lemon yellow, and orange brown are there. I'll primarily be using the black and white to change values, especially with the large expanses of gray.

 

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

Oooooooooo! Love the effect so far!

[Mierot]

I'm painting (very) slow these days. Hopefully when it warms up outside my painting area will also be warmer.

 

Using pure black and pure white to help work the values, I started blending the cloudy gray into the lemon yellow. The highest yellow is pure lemon yellow at this point, while the deepest shadows are cloudy grey with quite a bit of pure black. I may go darker, especially between the scales.

 

 

 

[Cyradis]

This looks way cool!

[Glitterwolf]

Super!

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

Ermahgerd! Lerv it!

[Mierot]

Thanks for the encouragement!

 

Today's progress: the initial blending on the top of the wings. Since the wings are such a large surface, I ended up painting fairly rapidly, working wet-on-wet with medium paint dilution and lots of mixing both on my wet palette and on the model. Colors involved were cloudy gray, cloudy gray mixed with various amounts of pure black, lemon yellow, and lemon yellow mixed perhaps 50/50 with cloudy gray.

 

I remembered to take a picture halfway through to help illustrate where the blends started and ended. Some of the orange just peeks through.

 

 

And both wings with their first blends.

 

More work is needed to clean up some transition areas and bring more lemon yellow and spot of orange back in for the highest highlights, but I'm pleased with where this is going. The bone areas also need plenty of work. I'll see you soon, Ebonwrath.

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

The blending is making great progress.

[Mierot]

After wrapping up a band of gnolls that I need for tonight's gaming session, I almost started a new figure. Ebonwrath raised her head, looked me in the eye, and said nothing. So I dutifully cleaned my palette, washed my brushes, and got back to work. I'm declaring her done. I created a show off thread with pics.