Looking Around for Inspiration

Looking back at the second blog, I was beginning to wonder if I should have kept the faces that were already there.  Well, too late now.  So what to do while I was deciding what kind of bunnies I was going to have?  I decided to put that on the backburners of my mind and start painting the clothing.

 

 

I started with a bright red dress for the girl.  It's going to get painted over with a pink pearl paint.  I learned that if you use pearl paint, it's best to put a flat color on first.  Otherwise you are painting layer after layer after layer to get any decent color.  The boy bunny is getting dark green coveralls with a contrasting green at the cuffs and the inside.

 

Still not knowing what color I wanted the bunnies to be, I went to google images for rabbits and found this.

 

 

 

I didn't know bunnies came in that kind of flavor.  It really reminded me of a cat I know.  Skippy!

 

 



Well, now.  There's a thought.

 

 

Doesn't look like much now.  But just you wait.  I'll figure this out.

 

Remember to wash your brushes!

Frankenstein's Bunnies

Well, this was an experiment gone awry! 

Way back in my college days, I took a stagecraft class, and actually did pretty well with it.  One of the most important lessons I learned was the 3 colors rule.  When you go to a play, those are not simple painted walls you see.  It's not like at home, where you run a couple of layers of the same paint over the wall and leave it at that.  In theater, the lights are a lot more intense and in order for the walls to look "normal" there are actually at least 3 colors applied to the canvas flats.  A base color that covers the entire flat, and then, using either a splatter technique or a sponge technique, you add different colors to give the flat texture and life when the lights hit it. 

I have found that technique to be useful here as well.  Last time, I painted my basic color, the golden brown, on the bunnies.  Then I took a darker color and mixed water into it to act as a wash that would seep into the sculpted crevices.

 

With the wash in one hand and a paper towel in the other, I began to apply the wash. Then let that dry. 

 

 

I then took a lighter color and with a very dry brush, lightly loaded with paint, went over the bunnies.  I made the grave mistake of putting white in the eyes.  Zombie bunnies.   This technique clearly did not work with these figurines.

 





 

Back to the drawing board.