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Dry Brush and Roughing
When your oil staining has dried well apply several
light coats of spray polyurethane sealer to the entire work.
Let each coat dry well before applying the next. Follow the
directions on the spray can.
For the face coloring place a small amount of raw sienna oil
paint of a palette. Add just a drop or two of linseed oil until the
raw sienna is thin but not running. Wrap a clean lint free cloth
around your finger and pat the cloth into the raw sienna-linseed oil
mix. On a paper towel pat most of the color off the cloth. Using
a circular motion rub the cloth over the skin area of your
carving. A very fine coating of raw sienna will adhere to the
work. You can apply several coats of color this way. Two
or three coatings will create a nice medium skin color.
Mix a small amount of cadmium yellow medium and cadmium red oil
paints to create an orange tone. Working exactly as the skin
area, pick some color up on a finger wrapped cloth, blot, then apply
this color to the cheek areas and tip of the nose. One coat will
probably be enough but add a second if you want a stronger blush.
Rubbing thin layers of oil paint over a stained work is called
Rouging. This is a great technique to use for color build up
because the color sits on top of the stain not under it, keeping the
color work bright. If you need more than a few layers of color
add a layer of polyurethane spray between coats.
The hair has been Dry Brushed with acrylic paints. Place a
small amount of titanium white on your palette. Moisten a small
soft shader brush with water then blot the brush on a paper
towel. Pick up just a small amount of white on your brush
tip. On a clean area of the palette work that white into the
brush by pulling it back and forth across the palette several
times. Now pull the brush across the hair area of your
carving. You are working against, crosswise, to the carved
texture grain. As you pull the brush a very small amount of
white will be left on the high ridges of the texture but no white will
reach the deep brown crevices. Apply one light coat of dry
brushed white to all of the hair sections.
Pick a few sections of hair that you want brighter than the
rest. Dry brush a second coat of white to just these
areas. I chose the mustache, eye brows, temple hair, and his
bangs. Add a third coat to just a few places and along the edges
of the hair clumps. My third coats when on the eye brows, bangs,
temple hair, and on the edges of his mustache.
Of note here, I carved out the pupil of the eyes using a round
gouge. At this stage that area should be very darkly colored
from the oil staining steps. On the round areas of the eye apply
one thin coat of titanium white. Add just a small amount of
burnt umber to the titanium white to create a medium brown tone.
Load a soft square shader brush with this mix then blot most of the
color from the brush on a paper towel. Use this lightly loaded
brush to pull a shadow on the round area of the eye under the upper
eye lid. This shades the eye giving it a more natural look than
just plain white eyes.
Allow the acrylic dry brushing to dry well. Give your work
a final coating of polyurethane spray.
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You can add color to a
work that has already
been stained and set with
polyurethane sealer by
roughing oil colors.
Thin layers of oil paint
can be rubbed over the
stained area using
several coats to develop
the color intensity.
Dry brushing with acrylics
is a great technique for
highlighting deeply textured areas as hair.
Drag a lightly loaded brush across the grain and the color will only
grab the high areas of the carving.
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