Iron nerves, back and butt were needed to do this. Time constraints, acrylic, a lot of sitting and few challenges overcome.
The big day is on Friday and tomorrow is a busy day so could not allocate 3 evenings to this.
8 hours in total and I made it!
Unusual subject to paint but it was fun even it was challenging.
Size is A3.
Projector is a dream helper for such kind of adventures!
Surprisingly enough I happened to try real glazing as it needs to be but in acrylics. Golden paint is transparent and I used brown to darken darks before covering with golden color. It did not work and I started adding white, brown and yellow ochre to control values better.
Really nice Iron Man
Very cool iron man! I find that even if the color is designated as transparent and I mix with glazing medium I still need to do some touch ups because some of the contrast is lost. It also helps if the base layer is exaggerated with the shadows and highlights. I did the pair painting under layer in black and white and my husband thought it looked kind of silly until he saw it glazed. The metal pieces look really amazing and I love the shine you have on them. Great job!
Love this! Great drawing, and I'm loving how the texture reads as metal on his suit.
@rah - it took a lot of energy to do, but if you start today you can finish it for our birthday. Painting him really allowed me appreciate how much work marvel put into the design. I wish i new what generation of suit it is, but my husband will immediately know he opens it. Well, it was the first and the last superhero for me and it the aim was to nurture inner child of my husband for his birthday while we are still family of two. In the beginning it felt like paint by numbers, you even can see where i became a bit confident with what i was doing in terms of coloring. Just get a projector as it saved me 2-3 hours of hard drawing work to get the pencil sketch on the canvas.
@paintingblondie, @Jeffth - thanks a lot guys! I repainted background a bit to make it darker but still kept transition from dark to light to enhance the drama and keep analogous color scheme. Does it seem to you that he got a bit of classic touch with brown background?
@Lilikins - Thanks for the advice, this is exactly what i felt like that i could make it darker if I fully comprehended it would be a real glazing. But since i have few more acrylic seascapes to do some of them may need glazes as fix of missed value charts. What medium do you use for acrylic glazing, can you share?
Actually, I was kinda hoping you would do a Spiderman and send it to me! Oh well, I suppose I could try one for myself ;(
I use goldens gloss glazing medium. There’s also a satin version which I haven’t tried yet. Fair warning with the gloss version - until you varnish it, the sections that you’ve glazed with give a glossy sheen when viewed from an angle making them stand out. I still haven’t varnished the painting I did with grapes awhile back and the little grapes really stick out from the rest of the painting. My husband got me a medium box trial set and I’m still working my way through everything but those are by far my favorite.
This is fantastic! So different from everything you usually do. Great job on this!
@rah, thanks! I did not realize that. Unfortunately I will not be painting for next 5-7 months due to few reasons (don't worry good ones) and I will be out of my studio . I am hoping that maybe I will get back to gouache paintings time to time during this timeline but nothing serious.
Thanks @Lilikins. I will google. I was too long outside of acrylics world.
@flippergirlpaints - Thanks a lot. It was a challenge but it was fun to try something new and learn something new about my skill gaps and areas for improvement!
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Cool! It's my birthday in October so can I have Spiderman please?