A painting is never finished -  it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner Here we are fellow hobbyists, welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Today we are looking at this... ...But before we get started, I hope you had a good St. Patrick's day earlier this week. My daughter's school dressed up as famous people from the county in which we live, Kerry. My 6 year old dressed up as Jessie Buckley (the Oscar-winner from Killarney, the town we live in), and was featured in the national news! To celebrate the 10th birthday of this blog, I hosted a painting competition about a month and a half ago. Over the past month we've been looking, in depth, at the piece that I submitted.  Today is the grand finale. Today we'll look at my complete piece (which earned me second place in the competition).  This was taken a moment after I stuck him onto his base. After about 2 months of painting - in mornings and evenings - he was complete.  I have taken a bunch of different pic...

"The apparel oft proclaims the man" - Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act I, Scene 3) Hello one and all and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Fasten your seatbelts for another action-packed, mammoth post about my painting competition piece from a few weeks ago.  We're closing in on the home stretch now, having looked at painting the NMM breastplate , hair and skin . Today were going to look at ALL THE REST! I started by painting the whole coat (inside and out) with a few thinned layers of Vallejo's Charred Brown.  Once the base coat was nice and smooth, I started the worst part of the whole painting process - and the part that I regret the most!  Using a mix of Vallejo's Charred Brown and Dark Fleshtone, I started stippling on teeny tiny dots ALL OVER the entire outside of the jacket. This was to provide a bit of texture.  Those past few photos literally took a week of painting time! And if you think it's hard to see in the photos above, imagine how it looks under norm...