If I was painting this
one just for myself, I would have gone with darker fur and skin
tones, but since my "client" wanted this particular
example of early man to be an albino, I followed his wishes. For
the fur color I slowly built up to pure white from a base of
tan. As you can imagine there was lots of dry brushing involved
with various shades of Delta Creamcoat whites, Old Parchment,
Antique White, Ivory and finally just plain White. The skin had
the same basic tan basecoat, but I used oil paints to tone down
the color and give him a light pink flesh color, I used only
"Flesh Tint" and white for the general skin tone, then
added details with Raw Sienna. The base was done mostly with
tans and whites with a bit of Createx Transparent Dark Brown in
the eye sockets and nose holes of the skulls. I was surprised to
discover a little lizard on the base lurking among all the
bones, John Pinkerton is full of surprises. |