Tried something a little different, paint

[Valvaren]

A few weeks ago I had picked up some acrylic paint with the hopes of using it to make small and intricate details on pieces. Not waiting to ruin a piece on my first shot I just made up a blank ball python and painted it. I was hooked, painting is super fun and allows for much more fluid markings and lets so much more detail through then just the clay.

Check them out and I would love your thoughts on my newer work compared to my older stuff.

First Painted Piece, Normal ball python


LOVE the head detail on this one


The paint allows for much more fluidity so I finally tried a bumblebee, this guy has pink in his heat pits and everything!


And finally its been so long since I did a Carpet so I made up this little Jaguar who has quite the mean look about him, love this one too.



Thank you so much for looking !

[NH93]

Oh my goodness! Those are INCREDIBLE. Ahhh!!!

I would definitely love to buy one of those... you don't happen to be taking the long trip to Toronto for the 2014 CRBE by chance? If you were I bet you could set up a booth and sell out of those within the first hour of the first day.

[Valvaren]

Thank you very much NH93 , I'll pm you. I wont be making it to CRBE this year but i'm seriously thinking about trying for next year, perhaps I should start looking into that a bit more closely . Thank you again, I'm really glad you like my work, it means a lot.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Love the San francisco garter snake

[AlexisFitzy]

These are some gorgeous pieces! I'd love to have one of everything. They look amazing and so detailed and realistic. Great job. I'll have to find where you are so I can get some. I need some more accessories. You can never have too many


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[Darkbird]

Im not into that sort of thing, but those look great, and I can guarantee my wife would buy one or two.

[Valvaren]

Thank you Deborah, he is quickly becoming one of my favorite creations !

Thank you very much AlexisFitzy I'll send you a pm!

[Valvaren]

Thank you DarkBird! I don't just do jewelry, i've been trying to get back into making my lightswitch covers as well, hope to have a few of those up soon, i've been trying to practice so I can paint the cover itself with a realistic background.

[AlexisFitzy]

Thank you very much AlexisFitzy I'll send you a pm!

Yay thanks so much


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[Pythonfriend]

really awesome

but how is this paint different from the paint you used earlier? or did you earlier only use different versions of the material with inherently different color?

maybe a good source for how to be more detailed would be all that games workshop stuff... warhammer 40k and the like...

just for fun, a random image, the whole thing is less than 2 centimeters in height, less than 2/3 of an inch:




and this is not even near the top. when you really want to go detailed, the fan websites for games workshop painting and warhammer 40.000 painting have the top resources and knowledge base for miniature painting. some of them take it to the extreme. there are these knights on horseback, in total maybe 4 centimeters high, which carry a banner that is maybe 6 millimeters by 5 millimeters, and they put a painting on the banner.

if you want to take the detail level of painting to a new level, this is where you should look for further information.

EDIT: oh, and... sculptors of miniatures that can sculpt at this detail level and this incredibly small size exist in the same communities.