Sunday, August 17, 2008

Pastel works-in-progress


This guy has been sitting for years, as I added too many uniform teenie-tiny dapples on him that I was not happy with, and just hadn't had the heart to cover most of them up just yet. He'll probably end up being a darker grey with belly dapples.


I just wuv this little resin, and no quick choice of color would do. It took me forever to finally decide on a nice dappled chestnut, and even longer (many, many layers) to get him to this point. He still has a long way to go from this rather orange stage, but I don't want to rush him along. Body first, then I'll concentrate on his head, legs, and mane/tail. Chestnut is such a challenging color to pastel, to stay away from the orange stage and not slip to far into bay! Here's a bit of my inspiration:




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