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"Hi, I'm the Keymaster, are you..." - The Gate Keeper

"No, child, I do not mind the door...
I AM the door"

 "Voodoo" - Alan Moore
Howdy Doody! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

 Welcome friends to another week of The World of Smog, our last for a little while, and one of the weirder ones...And just to mention, there will be huge celebrations when The Art of Caesura turns 2 in two weeks time!
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 "Even the most stolid visitors to the Shadow Market break out in a cold sweat when they hear the low beating of this reptile's wings above their heads. All activity ceases, and a deadly silence falls over the Market every time the creature pounces on a customer and brings him away in its sharp talons. This is the fate of those who break the Shadow Master's rules. Nobody knows how this chimera, once feared and worshipped by the Mayans, came to join the Shadow Master's menagerie."

 The World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service
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 More than any of the other World of Smog minis so far, I went crazy with this one! I looked at how others had painted this guy out on the interwebs (blues and greens and bluey-greens) and I liked them and thought that they would go well with a "natural" firey flame on his head (i.e. oranges and yellows). Ever since the Brimstone Horrors, and through the Death Marshals, I always prefer to paint flames the natural way as opposed to mystical blue or purple flames. Biologically, humans are wired to be attracted to flames - it harkens back to our cave-brethren finding warmth and relative safety huddling in groups around fires and some theorise that it is this attraction to fires that at least partially explains our desire to stare at modern sources of illumination (Films, TV, smartphones).

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Woah! Sorry, got a bit side-tracked there, anyway I like painting flames orange-yellow. I just finished painting last week's Merchant, and made his skin blue and I'm trying to push myself with these World of Smog minis to expand my palate so I decided against blue skin for The Gate Keeper. What colour would I paint him then? 
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I had an image in my head of a yellow snake with horizontal red stripes running down the length of it's body, but when I took to the internet to find the snake I was thinking of I couldn't find it. Undeterred, I let this act as the inspiration for The Gate Keeper's shocking skin-tone, complete with rave-esque red stripes!
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Having painted his skin yellow, I now needed a contrasting colour for the flame (rendering my blethering above moot). I settled on an ethereal, though smokey, blue to tie in with the pearlescent blue and purple feathers on his back.

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The feathers were given a shimmer in the same manner as The Doctor's clothes, that is to say by adding Stormhost Silver into my normal blue and purple paint. 
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 And with that, The Gate Keeper from The World of Smog is complete! We'll see you next week on The Art of Caesura!
Watching: Back to the Future
Reading: The Devil in the White City
Next Week: 

 Tzeentch, for a change!
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