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Rasputina, Ice Witch, and Lion Familiar
Even the most powerful witch sometimes finds her spells go awry, and when that happens it's good to have a friend to help get you out of a jam. Of course from a sidekick's point of view, an opportunity to literally light a fire under the ass of the 'hero' is never to be missed! I painted this as my entry in round 4 of season 4's Iron Painter over at Wyrd Games. I was paired up against demonherald, who had crushed many talented painters in the previous rounds, so I figured my only shot was to pull out all the stops. The theme of the round was the 'sidekick'. I chose to paint Wyrd's own Rasputina the ice witch and her little lion companion. I came up with the idea of Rasputina screwing up and encasing herself in ice as a way to keep the focus on the sidekick. I painted him in warmer colours as another way of trying to draw focus there. My main issue in completing this scene was deciding what to use to encase the figure in ice. I first considered some kind of clear resin. Iron Painter rounds are only two weeks long, and it was cold weather, so with only a few days remaining after painting the main figure, I was concerned that the resin wouldn't cure in time if I left it in the basement, and I was concerned about toxic fumes if I used it in the rest of the house. I tried Woodland Scenics Water Effects, but cure time was an issue there too, and it didn't look particularly ice nor very clear. Finally I settled on two-part 5 minute epoxy glue applied in many layers/stages. As I had always planned to add a little tint to the 'ice', so I painted the figure with that in mind. I used a dark teal in the shade mixes throughout the figure, including the skin. All highlights incorporated a blueish white. I lost the round to demonherald's disturbing but very funny Shrek-inspired diorama, but did manage to win the reputation for being quite mad for covering a nicely-painted model in goo. :->
Posted: 31 Mar 2008
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