Death and eternal punishment for anyone who opens this casket.
In the name of Amon-Ra, the king of the gods.
- The Mummy, 1932
It's a mixed bag today on The Art of Caesura!
We're in the midst of a few weeks of focusing on miniatures from the Conan board game by Monolith. Last week we looked at the first lot of mummies (to whom we shall be returning next week), but in the meantime we have two other miniatures to break things up a little bit.
The first is a little curiosity that was a lot of fun to paint: a wizard's bookcase!
There are a lot of nice little details and textures on this model from the various corked jars and beakers to the skulls and...well I don't exactly know what the other item on top of the case was meant to be, but I painted it like a quartz Faberge egg!
Getting all of the books to look individual without making the whole thing look garish and eye-burstingly poly-chromatic was a fun challenge. I dialed back the highlights and used liberal washes of Agrax Earthshade to tone it all down a bit.
Another technique to jazz things up a bit was the gloss varnish on the jars and egg.
And now for something completely different! The sarcophagus was going to be the sole topic of today (fitting nicely between two weeks of mummies) but I painted it super quickly and so, got the bookcase done as well. Isn't it cool that "sarcophagus" literally means "flesh-eating"!?
The moral for painting the sarcophagus was that sometimes less is more. I spent a long time looking at pictures of sarcophagi - all the ornate inlaid precious stones - and I was planning how I would do it here. But once I'd worked the gold to a shimmer I liked (with thin coats of Seraphim Sepia, a very thin wash of Druchii Violet and gentle highlighting) I was happy with it and decided against anymore ornamentation.
Yeah, I know, not much to it really but that's why I threw it in with the bookcase this week!
Hope you like my first post of miniature furniture on The Art of Caesura!
Started: My Masters this week!
Listening: The Waking Up podcast - Sam Harris
Watching: Mad Max: Fury Road (again)
Next Week:
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