Projects Progress...
I finally finished painting my Marcia Backstrom kit. She's not "perfect," but she actually looks better than the first two kits I ever did. When I painted the first kit, I did not know that I needed to wash it to get the mold release off, and that I needed to prime it; I kind of leapt in and started painting it and had the worst time with the paint sliding off and peeling. So off to the Internet and researched resin kits and got some tips, which helped with my second kit. That kit turned out better, but I still had a tough time with painting the features since they're so tiny and my brush seems so big!
So this leads to today's example #3. This kit had been purchased at a show in the '90's and was stored in my project drawer. I washed her well with soap and water and primed her with gesso. I removed hairs from an old brush so only a few strands remain, which helped me with control in lining her eyes and painting the iris and pupils. Her eyebrows could be better though...
I gave her a faint blush by thinning the cheek color with water into a wash and pouncing it on with a dry stippler brush. This still came out somewhat unnatural looking so before it was totally dried, I went over the area with a wet brush which removed excess and blended the rest of the color in. I blushed her forehead, uppper chest, and the backs of her hands as well.
For the boots, I used a painting tutorial I found which give tips on basecoating, highlighting, and shadowing. I was painting shoes in one color, but I liked how the boots turned out. For the laces, I experimented with texturizing my acrylic paint to try to mimic threads. I need a smaller brush to apply it with in the future or maybe a plastic syringe because the threads needed to be thinner on the boot. I may try the textured paints to "make shoes" to see how that would work too. The texturizer gave dimension to the paints so I think it might work for making shoes and maybe gloves.
You can't see the laces too well but this shows the shadowing in the creases of her boots.
