Once in a while you can scare your customers by Work in Progress pictures and once in a while you can even doubt your own process and technique.
Enjoy the photo journal of Ashton Drake's Welcome Home Emily from start to painted and matted finish.
Just out of the box:
Stripped of original paint and hair:
First layers of coloring:
And this is where I made my customer nervous!
Through the process of painting and using powders and the setting medium, she became very sheeny which accentuated the colors.
But once the matting was completed (I always use a little "Warm Details" in my matting mixture)
her colors softened, the sheen disappeared and she became beautiful again :)
This baby was painted completely with Baby FX Air Dry Paints, Powders, mediums and mattes.
I am most pleased!
Wow!!! She came out amazing!!!! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE ur work. And I love reading everyone of your blog posts. I’m actually going through them all now. I am “new” at painting the reborn kits and I must say that I love it. I have been researching for everything I can for the past 4 years now. Was so afraid to put the paint to the vinyl!!! I sure have had my trials and errors over the past year. Started out with acrylic paints and the first 2 kits I painted came out looking “dead.” Which I believe I read somewhere that the purple paint will do it??? Not sure. But I just had to comment on this baby. I believe I have one that my friend bought at the thrift store. But her skin feels like it’s silicone. Even though she isn’t a silicone doll??? Well off I go to read some more of your posts while I sip my coffee. So excited to see what I will learn from you. I’ve already learned so much!!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your knowledge of this craft. It has helped me immensely!!!! You are an inspiration to me. Just hope I can paint as well
ReplyDeleteas you some day soon. Take care and God bless!!!!