jubjefA megalith I’ve been working on - I’ve never painted gems before so I’m really happy with how they turned out!
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NinjaDebugger@jubjef good lookin glow and gem.
@NinjaDebugger thanks 😅 I don’t think I’ll be quick to do it again, getting the glow into the recesses without smudging too much was a pain
@jubjef Did you not use an oil wash?
@NinjaDebugger nope, it’s a fluro paint over white. With lots of time taken painting around the edges for the outer stone base - I didn’t even think of an oil wash, as I had the fluro right there 😂
So here's my personal tip for dealing with stuff like that.
Titanium white oil can often be got as a _freebie_ when you buy oils from various places. Lay down a titanium white oil wash, airbrush a coat of acrylic varnish of it, then lay down the fluorescent. You get all the effect for way less trouble.
@NinjaDebugger I can see how that might make things easier, though I don’t use an airbrush it can still work. I feel that you wind up just trading one pain (picking out the edges slowly by hand) for another (waiting for the oil wash to dry and managing oil / acrylic interaction), no?
@jubjef depends on how fast you want it to dry, really. I do the oil wash at the end of my session and it's ready the next day, generally.
Mollarom@jubjef Really nice work!