Artemis

Artemis from Hasslefree.  Resin, 40mm.  Painted in oils and sold in May of '08.

My first experiment with oil painting on minis.  The "large" scale of this piece was the excuse I was looking for at the time to see if I could paint a mini using oil.  Over an acrylic base of course, aint nobody got time for an oil basecoat!

Ariseth, Necropolis Chattel Conversion

Here we have an older figure from Reaper's Warlord range, Ariseth, Necropolis Chattel (sculpted by Stefan Niehaus).  I felt the original sculpt was a little flat and along with the contorted pose looked like it needed some help.  I sculpted for her some hair and the visor skull helmet to help balance out her proportions.

I also sculpted for her a shoulderpad on her left arm to help bulk her up a little and gave her a loincloth hanging from her backside to help sell the idea of the flowing hair, since I could place a wind direction on the loincloth as well.  Painting all those little straps everywhere was tedious!

I worked on this piece off and on from '09 to '12 and sold her in February of 2012 after she was completed and photographed.

The two swords have a kind of mystical rune pattern thing happening in the paintwork there and they came out really nice and soft in the photo.  I'd say I'm happy with the way the silver NMM effect came out in the photos almost makes for a convincing metal effect against the blue background!

Lorna the Huntress

Starting today I'll be updating this blog finally.  I have so much work to share from the past couple of years since creating this blog that it would be too time consuming to post all of it at once. Instead I will post one miniature a day here on this blog, and over time I will finally have a blog worth looking at.

I'll be starting with this little gal here, Lorna the Huntress from Reaper's Dark Heaven line sculpted by Bobby Jackson. Painted in January of 2012, sold in February of 2012.

I've always liked this simple figure and wanted to give her a tribal warrior type of look. I chose her color scheme based on a complement to her skintone and eyeshadow, which color I was inspired to use by an image of warrior from a South American jungle tribe I referenced on Google.

 I made the base from hand sculpted and carved sculpey stones that I layered one by one.  Time consuming, but one of my better simple bases.  The vines and leaves were made from rolled out Magic Sculp, the moss from sand.

 

Here's a closeup of her face that  I took that shows off the eyes pretty nicely.  Ok, that's it for the first post to this blog after I decided to resurrect it from the ashes. More to come tomorrow and for many days after that.  So thanks for stopping by and if you like this kind of stuff, be sure to stay tuned as they used to say.