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Ciao a tutti,

The lovely Red is done, as well as the groundwork (still fresh) and the wooden trolley.

Just the wolf has to be painted, but you can see some subtle color variation given with the airbrush.

I've made the blood drops with something quite unusual, tiny pieces of my fibre glass pen.

Then used the paint and some white glue to make the final drop like part.

I'm using so many new medium and techniques on this tiny gem, I love it, is a shame is almost finished!!!!

Let me know what you think.

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

Today is a special day, I've reached the 100.000 hits therefore I'll go with 2 posts the same day.

I'm keep on painting the little Red Cappuccello, and I just can't stop it!

I've managed to finish the dress, hands, apron and I've started the knife and add the freckles!

I highly recommend this piece, get one from Maurizio !

As usual let me know what you think!

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I can not believe it, but I've reached the 100.000 page hits!!! Ancora no ci credo, ho raggiunto le 100.000 pagine viste!!!!

A big thank you to everyone! Un grazie di cuore a tutti!

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

Recently I've bought this gem from Maurizio Bruno, to celebrate is 200th scupture.

He took inspiration from Monge's drawing (see below)

The figure is something completely different from anything I've done in my life, has nothing to do with uniforms and research, just pure fun!

I've made a little change, to the sculpture, adding the hairs in front of her right eye, the original had an eye patch and 3 scars along the cheek (see below the image of the original casting from Maurizio)

Anyway is a pure joy to paint and to try something new, I've used the airbrush for the red hood, I like it, I may use it in the future!!!

At the moment the hood is 90% done, I just need to paint the little patch on the left hand side.

Face is still fresh so I may do some touch up once is dry.

Let me know what you think!

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I'm going on with the sculpting of de Rigny.

I'm sculpting the pellisse with all the laces and trimmings. It took me 7 or 8 attempts to get to this point, I probably should have tried with a different putty, like Duro, oh well, next time will be better.

I'm not 100% happy but as a first attempt is ok, first time I tried I've managed to have only 8 rows on the pellisse, now we are at 16th!!

Ciao a tutti,

I'm sculpting our Gaulthier, and for the first time I'm using a technique to replicate the 2D painting in a 3D sculpture.

I've printed the paintinc and with a ruler took the dimension, also, while sculpting I keep comparing the sculpture with the painting by simply putting the figure in front of the printed paper.

The more challenging part is to sculpt a face close enough to the one in the painting, I think I did achieve something similar..ish...

The only commercial part are the lower part of the boots, took from an old Metal Modeles hussar leg set.

Hope you like it, now the really difficult part, making the Pellisse!!!!!!

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

My dear friend Francesco Simoncini (one of the greatest expert on hussars in the world!) has started a thread on figurinitaly on the 2nd hussar's regiment and among all the images he posted the one below.

He's Gaulthier de Rigny, a colonel in 1809, and I've decided to sculpta figure, using the same pose and proportion, basically trying to make a 3D version of the painting.

Won't be an easy task (I hope to succeed) but I love the style of the painting.

Stay tuned for more!

Ciao

Giovanni