Native American Indians

Pawnee Bust

Finished this off last night. Here are the pictures.

Native American Indians

Pawnee Bust

After force drying the oils under two halogen lamps I revisited the flesh using the same oil mixes and increased the contrast between light and shade, this was over three or four brief sittings with force drying with the lights inbetween. After the last session with the oils I had a few hours of bench time ahead of me so I proceeded with the hair, feathers and beads, this turned into an early hours of the morning session before I knew it and resulted in most of the work being completed. I finished most of it off today.

A few touch ups here and there and the shield to finish and this ones done.

Native American Indians

Pawnee Bust

Started with the oils today over the top of the Jo Sonja base.

With Jo Sonja acrylic basecoat roughly blended

The oil mix is made from the same Jo Sonja colours used for the basecoat.

A master recipe of Venitian Red and Burnt Umber is added to Jaune Brilliant in icreasing quantities to create the mid 3 tones.

For the 3 highlights a base of  Naples Yellow with a small amount of master recipe and Cadmium Red represents highlight 1 and is progressively darkened with the master recipe for highlights 2 and 3

The 3 shades all begin with the master recipe with a Cobalt Blue/White mix added for the greyed shade, Burnt Umber added for the warm shade and a Viridian Green/Mars Black mix added for the dark cool shade.

The oil mix

I keep these in an airtight container after a painting session to prolong their life.

Below is the first stage of oil painting. All of the colours were applied to the appropriate areas (aided by the pre-painting of the Jo Sonja's) and wet blended together. When dry some further wet on dry highlighting and shading will begin.

Oils are still wet on these two pictures, more to come when it's dry.

Native American Indians

Sioux Indian Completed

Finished this one off in the last few days, here are the pics.

Native American Indians (a kind of SBS)

Sioux Indian

Been a busy week so far so little brush time on the bench. Managed to get some in tonight though and made some fair progress with the Sioux. Really enjoying painting this figure so far, nice and colourful with some detail work on the patterns which gives it a good variety each time I return to the bench.

Native American Indians (kind of SBS)

Sioux vs Old Guard!

Bit of a day time painting session with my friend Lee down in the cave.

No work today so on with painting the Sioux in the company of long time buddy Lee who's been working his painting apprenticeship in 28mm with some Perry Miniatures Old Guard.

I managed to progress the Sioux to this stage

Nice to see some colours appearing. I've added some highlights to the feathers and blocked in the reds and blues as well as the coup stick.

 

One of Lee's (many) Perry 28mm Old Guard

Native American Indians (kind of SBS)

Pawnee & Sioux Indians

More work on the fleshtones on the Sioux Indian using the Jo Sonja, still a little refining left to do. Started the feathers but yet to apply any highlights.

Native American Indians (kind of SBS)

Pawnee & Sioux Indians

I dug these old figures out that I bought nearly 20 years ago and thought I'd try and do them justice. One is the Metal Modeles 90mm Sioux and the other a Pawnee bust in 1/10th scale by Poste Militaire. These were bought before a 15 year hiatus from the hobby so it was nice to see that the sculpts still stand up to today's high standards. They were already assembled and primed in white, so as is my current practice I re-primed them both black with Vallejo black primer through the airbrush.

Black primed with some pre-highlights in pale flesh

With Jo Sonja acrylics I made up 9 skin tones on the wet palette. 3 highlights, 3 mid tones and 3 greyed shades.

Getting straight on with the bust I've begun to colour sketch the various tones

And a little more work

At this point with the bust I will probably leave the flesh as it is. This is because I want to overpaint with oils using exactly the same flesh mixes. We'll see how that turns out!

With the 90mm figure I've progressed it a little further choosing to remain with the acrylics.

A bit more work done on the flesh and a photo that's not as overexposed!