The Angel of History (After Klee and Benjamin) // (Deluxe Paint IV, 2023) // for Tezos@South Beach, Dec. 6-9, Miami Art Basel 2023 (cw: flashing)
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Buffy and Angelus painting based on their confrontation scene in Innocence! Always been a huge fan of the dramatic lighting in this scene! Or y'know, what the lighting originally looked like before they remastered the life out of it....
for @iwillrememberyoumarathon thank u for giving me an excuse to digital paint again it has been. 5 billion years.
also reminder as ever that if u guys like my art I still have commissions open! check out my pinned post for info!
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My personal style is very minimal and simplistic but it doesn’t stop me from bringing to life others’ extraordinary ideas.
Always real, vegetable tanned leather. Top collar is black leather painted to give it a camo effect.
Bottom collar is vegetable tanned (no dye) painted a strawberry cow spot pattern with colorful sprinkles.
Leather paints have come a long way and the options are now endless.
Oh! I can color match anything btw.
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Hello! I hope you are well!
I recently used you shoe painting tutorial to paint some shoes using Angelus leather paint. After one day of wear, they are splitting pretty horribly. Do you have any advice/ideas of what I might have done wrong? They were thrift store shoes (unidentifiable origin) that I prepped with acetone. I spent some time dancing in them, but was mostly walking around.
[Tutorial in question]
My first thought would be to check if the surface of the shoe is not particularly well attached to itself. If the foundation is not strong, the paint will flake off.
Also, it might help to know what kind of shoe it is. I've painted character shoes with Angelus before, and that held up through dancing. However, it's not going to survive something like a leather ballet slipper, so that'd be something to check out.
I'm also going to go back and revise the tutorial, because I think it tells you to put on more paint than is strictly necessary. These are some black shoes that I painted with just a couple of layers of metallic bronze. I wear these daily, and the shoe is wearing off on the toe, but it's not cracking. I think all the white primer is probably necessary if you're going to a very bright color, but if you're painting a dark color over black, it'll be less obvious if the paint wears off if the under color was black.
The glitter top coat also is more likely to flake than regular paint, because it's less flexible, so that might also contribute to it. I put entirely too much glitter on the purple shoes in the tutorial. While I did wear one of those shoes to SacAnime, I wasn't walking for that con, so I don't have a good example of how they wear.
I've used Angelus quite a lot in theatrical stuff, which usually doesn't involve water. I've worn these shoes pictures above quite a bit in water, so I don't know if that's the case. Theatrically, we use Angelus sometimes to hold cracking surfaces back onto the shoe, by applying a thick enough coat that the parts trying to come off are stuck together and stuck to the shoe.
If I can get some more information about what kind of shoe and how your paint was applied, I'd like to update the tutorial with this information, so that other people don't have this problem.
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A collaboration with @erinhime83, her Odessa Wilson (left, in red) and her dragon Regalis (dragon) with my Aria Laken (right, in blue corset). Erin did the lines and I did the background and colouring.
This was originally for an old HP roleplay in 2003, but they've both since evolved into original characters (and I, for one, am happy about that.)
If you think the 2003 original looks small, it's because it is really that small, haha. I'm currently unable to access my old art backups (and those are on their last legs) but even if I managed to pull the original...that's it. That's how big it is. 😂
I didn't think I'd changed my colouring methods that much over the last decade, but I managed to prove myself wrong. It looks great! Odessa turned out better, because she has a clear light source, and by the time I got to Aria I just started screaming and saying "how do light source" over and over, but she doesn't look bad. I managed to give her some all-important rim light in there (very important).
It originally was going to be them both by firelight, and I was liking the look of a grey sky or starry night, before I realized it'd look weird if they were drinking coffee or whatever in the evening. So instead I switched it to a morning look and we can pretend they've just pulled an all-nighter. In which case, they look great.
I'm trying not to think how it's been 20 years. Where has the time gone?
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The Angelus
Jean François-Millet
French, 1857-1859
Oil on canvas
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