Some of you may remember my little tutorial on doing Marble, if not you can find it at the bottom of this Post and works well on big surfaces, but not so well on small ones. So I've been looking for an alternative, partly luck, partly brain fart I thought what about contrast paint, to do the faded grey in the background, and surprisingly it worked ! Here is a step by step guide on how I did it :
Step 1 base colour the statue in black.
Step 2 apply white contrast in areas you want the background colour, making sure to leave areas of pure black.
Step 3 add white fracture lines on the pure black areas.
Step 4 add black fracture lines on the muted grey areas.
Step 5 cover the statue in gloss varnish, to complete the effect.
So why did I need this, well the building I'm currently working on has 4 small statues on, which I'm trying to finish for SOS, that's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun !
Cheers Dave
Well as the young folks would say, 'you've smashed that!' Great idea Dave, worked a treat.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael, always good to share new ideas, incase someone else is struggling with the same problem
DeleteNicely done, Dave, and using the contrast paints to get a marble effect is a really good idea. The statue looks ready to be smashed up by traitors LOL!
ReplyDeleteThank you Matt, I was looking at it's translucent properties and thought I wonder if that will give me the effect I'm looking for, and luckily it did ! LOL I know those traitors have no respect for art ! LOL
DeleteWell Dave, I have never needed to paint marble but now I know what to do - send it to you to paint for me! ;-) As always, you make it look easy and very good!
ReplyDeleteThank you John, I'll expect a parcel in the post ! LOL I do like to share new ideas to help ! LOL
DeleteThat’s a good affect for marble. I’ll store it in my brain box. 😀
ReplyDeleteThank you Stewart, would work well on large surfaces as well, and be less time consuming than the previous method I used to use.
DeleteThat turned out pretty nice! My method is 1. Throw hands in the air (or any nearby objects), 2. Run around the room screaming. It works for all sorts of materials that I dread painting! Which is probably why my site is lacking in cool tutorials like this one! ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you Faust, I can't get the image out of my head of you running round the room screaming ! LOL I think your recent posts on different paint brands was very informative myself, so don't sell your blog short mate.
DeleteCheers Dave, thanks for the kind words!
DeleteYou are most welcome mate, and credit where it's due
DeleteI've never attempted to paint marble (if you can believe it!) but I really like the approach you've shared here. It doesn't look difficult to achieve and it provides realistic looking results as well. I look forward to seeing the finished terrain in the near future!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jeff, I am surprised you've never done marble before, the process is quick and easy to do, the longest part is waiting for the contrast paint to dry ! LOL I'll be glad when the building is finished, as it's taking far too long ! LOL
DeleteGreat work, Dave. I might try that technique sometime myself when I'm working on something approrpiate!
ReplyDeleteThank you Azazel, would love to see how you go with it, if you give it a try.
DeleteNice! Painting marble scares the hell out of me, I may have to give this a try!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Suber, I know what you mean, as when you first look at marble it looks really complex, hence i tried to break it down into elements, that could be replicated, hope you have fun with it, and happy to answer any questions.
DeleteThat's a very impressive marbelling effect on someting other than floors and columns - and the ifrst I'vce ever seen (i'm rubbish at trying to get even the simplist marble effect.
ReplyDeleteThank you Joe, Marble is such an interesting material, that I thought why not on a statue. The trick to this process is never cover more than half of the area with grey shadow, and leaving enough room for the fracture lines.
DeleteWell that has come out very nicely mate, great technique!
ReplyDeleteCheers Roger.
Thank you Roger, always looking for new ways to achieve things, and always happy to share my results.
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