Hobby Hint

I used the following colors on Bonaparte's 200 mm Indian Woman bust: Undercoat: Liquitex Deep Portrait Pink + Liquitex Burnt Sienna jar acrylics.

Oil Base: Mars Brown + Cadmium Yellow Pale + Jaune + dab Mars Red + Titanium White + 2 drops of Stand Oil

Shad: Base + Mars Brown + Mars Violet

Deep Shadow: Brown Madder Alizarin

High Highlight: Base + Jaune + Titanium White

Light Highlight: High + Titanium White

After dry, deep shadows of Brown Madder + Sepia; Light Highs: a mix of the original High and Light High.

Lips: base-Mars Red + Face shadow color

Shadow- Purple Madder

High- Jaune + TW

I also painted Poste Militaire's Cheyenne Wolfscout several years ago using the following mixtures.

Base: Mars Brown + Cad. Yellow + Indian Red + Titanium White

Shadows: base + Mars Violet

Deep Shadows: Brown Madder + Sepia

High highlight: Base + Cad. Yellow + TW

Light Highlight: Titanium White

These are simply mixes that I have used. There is no right or wrong color. Part of the fun of painting with oils is mixing colors. You never know what you are going to end up with!

Phil Kessling is a graduate of Tulane University and a former F-14 Tomcat RIO. He is a critically acclaimed miniature painter, author of Osprey Publications Battle Honours, and a contributing editor to Historical Miniatures magazine.