Cartoon Wednesday

 

Hippo Distraction - Day 7 Finished

 This morning I touched up some of the black lines as well as adding a couple more. I tried to even out the yellow on the tassels. I would probably fuss with these some more but I have to consider drying time at this point. What that means is I’ll have to depend on my brother to apply the gloss coat in a couple of weeks in California. Now I just need to arrange delivery to Louisville before they leave next Monday.

Hippo Distraction - Day 6

More details and beginning the touchups at this point. The yellow tassels are driving me a bit crazy, I forgot how difficult yellow is to work with. Harry is basically finished at this point so about an hour for the next session should wrap him up. The saddle has a lot more fade to it, much like the original but the light is really killing that for some reason. I may revisit that and lighten the upper surface of the saddle even further.

Hippo Distraction - Day 4 & 5

Moving on to the details. The tongue and the saddle blanket in this case. Since I needed some of the paint to dry before I could paint other things this took a couple of days. This is the stage when I start mixing enamel and oil paints together. The base for the red is magenta enamel while the red itself is cadmium red. The blue base is a mix of Prussian Blue and White enamel with both full strength Prussian Blue enamel and Pthalo Blue oil mixed in. The process gives a very rich vibrant color. In between the red and the blue will be white and I was thinking of free handing some stars into the blue but we will see how that goes.

Hippo Distraction Day 3

The hippo has been named, he is now Hieronymus "Harry" Hippopotamus or just Harry Hippo for short.

Progress continues, the blue shadows have been blended into the base gray. Its not perfect but its good.