"Finito" - The Vulture - Part 4

"Finito" - The Vulture - Part 4 - Complete!

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 pictures under various lighting conditions - at my hobby desk, with a white background and in my usual inimitable style, to try to show him off...in the best light ho ho!

Thank you for sticking with me over the past month or so to hear about how I painted the highest quality model that I have ever painted.

I'll see you next Friday on The Art of Caesura!

Reading: 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Watching: Vladamir - Netflix, 2026

Next Week:

Zombies...IN SPAAAAACE!!!

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