Painting the birds - duck

[Leo]

Are there any good tutorials on painting of the Vector Art 3D birds?

I have a couple of ducks - Heron - Eagle.

I plan on other animals too

BUT - I need to learn how to do - due - justice to the carvings via painting - as live like as possible - at least for an amateur.

[esteeme1]

Have you tried going to a hobby pottery shop. They should have all the paints and classes you need.

[P.Passuello]

Have you seen this thread and PDF file on Glazing techniques.
http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=6622

Cheers
Peter

[Leo]

Yeah - I have the glazing tutorial printed out and in my Shop Notes foder in the shop. Excellent tutorial.

BUT

I want to "paint" this duck as well as some other models -- like a hand wood carver would do a lifelike painting of a hand carved lifelike bird.

I may not get the super lifelike details - but I want to know the techniques and apply at least "some" realism to the Duck.

This will be applied to a sign I am making.

[esteeme1]

If you paint the duck with solid colors to your liking you can add the glazing techniques to enhance the depth and bring out the details.

[kzeyus]

You might look at the tutorials on Laura English's carving site. www.carvingpatterns.com

here's one in particular:

http://www.carvingpatterns.com/projects/drybrushing.htm

[Leo]

THAT is an AWESOME link. thank you.

I am trying my hand at some artist paints from an artist store.

So far I have painted the head, and base coated the body.

The oil paint takes 4-5 days to dry, before I can go over it with other layers of colors.

It will look lifelike, but it is also a huge undertaking.

I will try to post pics later