This unusual beastie had a very specific color scheme request, which is very typical when you do commission stuff. We have been doing commissions for a very long time, since 2001. Sometimes you get very interesting requests, and sometimes very unusual requirements!
You never know what that is gonna be, so you just have to roll on.
Most of the time they are very fun, and this limited palette exercise was as well, done entirely in oils!
Here is the image that I had to try and match...
What I love about the oil paints is the ability to mix very subtle color shifts right into the paint, instead of having to go back in with glazes, etc. I was able to sneak in those warmer ochre colors with no problem!
I also experimented even more with glazing the oils. Since the capillary action is even greater with oil paints than water, I thought this would be a very good proving ground. If you see any of the vehicle painting exercises, you know that people do those "panel line washes" or "Pin washes".
Those are made possible by that enhanced capillary action, as thinned down oils (white spirits only!) make the paint so much thinner, it can even flow "upwards" against gravity!
Now I make my own Paenel Line Washes... but it is quite interesting to do them on top of wet oil paint. :-) I am still quite surprised that it is possible to do so. As I often mention during my live sessions, it is the layering of thick paint over thin, and then thin over thick, etc., that allows each of these very wet layers to stick to each other ;-)
Here's an example of the latest demo, which is going to be a YouTube tutorial video for the patron very soon:
