Here is Pegasso’s recent 54mm release of a Mohawk Indian in the mid 18th Century. This tribe is one of the Five Nations/Iroquois Confederacy of what is now upstate New York and Canada. From what I have been able to ascertain, they typically wore three feathers to identify themselves, which sculptor Benoit Cauchies represented with two decorated and one plain casting. The neck knife is a separate item to make painting the chest a bit easier. I painted some tattoos on the chest face and arms as this was very common among the woodland tribes. The rock in the foreground was formed from some excess Milliput and a slurry of thinned white glue and Woodland Scenics fine turf represents mossy growth. The rest of the ground cover is from my stockpile. The two straps were decorated with Archer Fine Transfer 1/16th tattoo decals. The figure is painted with Andrea and Vallejo acrylics with a few spots of oil wash to highlight some shadows.
Outstanding painting. I’m terrified to try that much skin tone. And he’s done in acrylic, not oil? I can not make acrylics blend like that. Nicely done.
SteveM
Thanks, Steve,
The base flesh color is 2 parts Vallejo beige red and 1 part dark fleshtone. Shadows are 1:1 in those colors and deepest shadow is well thinned dark fleshtone. Highlights are straight beige red and beige red 1:1 with Andre light flesh with very thinned straight light flesh for highest highlilght. The tatts were applied after the first shadow then a very thin layer of the base mix was applied uniformly over the figure to blend in the shadows and reduce the starkness of the tattoos.
The layering process was described in a seminar by Marion and ALan Ball at the Long Island Figure Show in November. It seems adding the very thinned layer of base brings things togeter more.
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