Dan's 2024 Side Projects

I turned each colour into a wash. The paints had been on my wet palette for about 24 hours, so were already diluted a bit. I took a few drops of paint, watered them down with several drops of water from my brush, and then added a small amount of black from by brush (i.e. I just had a bit of paint on the tip of the brush).

I didn’t necessarily use washes on the corresponding base colour. E.g. I used the blue wash on the yellow base painted areas. The red molluscs were washed green. The skin was washed purple.

Also, rather than applying washes everywhere, in the larger areas I deliberately limited the washes to the recesses.

I mixed highlights by taking a drop of each paint (fresh from the bottle) and mixing it roughly 50:50 with white paint.

The highlights were applied more or less to each colour to match the base colour.

For the base I thought I’d paint it brown and then apply some sand to give a beach effect.

In order to stick to my initial intentions, I tried mixing a brown using the paint colours I’d limited myself to. It did work and I got a decent sand brown. Unfortunately one coat wasn’t sufficient and I hadn’t mixed enough for a second. This was always my fear with mixing paints – struggling to duplicate the colours achieved.

So I gave up and just painted it zamesi desert.

I also realised I mixed all my sand in with other flocks to make a basing mix for my Bolt Action years ago. So I just stuck with a basic brown base. I feel it fits the cartoonish colour scheme.