22 December 2011

White Ape of Barsoom-Painting (1): U/Cing

Last, but certainly not least. . . The rampaging, six-limbed ape is now undercoated!

This was a tricky one, and is certainly a candidate for reworking once I break-out the oils. Burroughs is characteristically sparse in his descriptive passages, so, taking into account that the beasts were glabrous save for the shock of hair, what exactly did he mean by "white"?

After spending some time reviewing images of Snowflake, may he RIP, I decided on a warm parchment undercoat, freely mixing and blending no less than four Reaper and Vallejo colours. The end result is a cool fleshtone, which should take quite readily to the "white" oils to follow.

More to follow. . .

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