My enthusiasm for this week's painting wained as the week went on as I've mostly been painting roofs - just the two of them. I'm now up to painting highlighting or putting washes over them for the fifth or sixth time ( I lost track). The original intention was to highlight the darker mustard coloured with, progressively, two lighter ones. Unfortunately the yellows I chose turned out to be mostly greys - a Yellow/white problem I have with my eyesight and generally I see these as almost identical shades. I tend to see all colours much paler than they should be (red/orange is another problem). A wash of another yellow ochre just about fixed the problem, but needed two washes and finally, to give that grim look I washed with a charcoal (black would have been far to harsh imo).
The finished "Blue House" roof is shown, in situ, above right.
I 've also done some remedial modelling on the "Blue House's" front window, the "Jail's" front window and roof, and the roof of the "Shack".
Here's the photo's:
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The two roofs' progress
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Spot the problem...No?...
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...How about now ?
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Window sorted (and bonus obligatory blurry picture)
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"Jail" window now has board across the bottom
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Jail roof, with pots acting as an aid to roof removal
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The "Shack" with its new roof
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I also gave Harry/Brad some shading but that's for another day.
And that's it then for another week, not much I know, but I'm happy that I got anything done !
Thanks for taking the time to visit and as always your comments are welcomed and appreciated.
Nice progress Joe, with the colour problems you have you have achieved a lot. Progress of any sort is good progress, and the roofs have a nice aged feel to them now.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, I hope I can duplicate the same effects on all the other pantiles on the other buildings.
DeleteThat looks fantastic Joe - I like the jars on the roof
ReplyDeleteThanks MJT, the jars are merely a handle for the easy removal of the roof and could just have easily been some other detritus.
DeleteNice use of the corrugated cardboard for the roofing Joe! I keep stashing boxes made with this for using as corrugated metal sheets, but I can see their usefulness as clay tiles now too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry, the corrugation card is a boon, especially as one side is corrugations. I have a crimper too for 'double sided' corrugations.
DeleteFantastic looking progress sir!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you are a football fan but congratulations on playing Newcastle!
After all, since the 90s I can watch them again :-)
Thanks Michal, I am a big NUFC supporter, for many years and we have waited a long time to enjoy watching them play again !
DeleteGreat :-) love the Alan Shearer era.
DeleteI totally agree, certainly the best period of fottball in my liftime - so far (I was too young to appreciate the last time we on the FA cup in 1955 when I was three !)
DeleteGreat painting on the roofs, Joe, the colours look great and well weathered. I love the little jars, too, it's the small details like those that can really bring a building to life!
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, as someone once saod th devil's in the detail and although I'm not over-enthusiastic about this project ow some details are worth the effort imo.
DeleteYou've done way more than I have Joe. I bought some kit off Dave Stone at the start of the month and then lost all motivation and enthusiasm due to how I am.
ReplyDeleteChap I knew who I used to game with, regularly painted while drunk - came to look at his own work the morning after and had one of those familiar 'what was I thinking?' moments when taking in his beer-goggled colour choices.
Thanks Roy, it is taking me a lot of effort to get anything done these days, mostly because I have in th back of my mind that I've done it all before.
DeleteA fellow blogger I played games with had a night shift at a gargae where he used to get a lot of painting and modelling done!
Good looking progress!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
THanks Iain and sorry for the lateness of my reply
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