Good evening all
So I spent a thoroughly enjoyable hour on Sunday evening doing some of the tiles. I started
very carefully but the first colour was closer to the base coat than I thought, so stepped up to something with more contrast and took it from there.
I also started with very thin coats, so as to not risk overwhelming it with one colour that would then stick out like a sore thumb - especially as lighter shades can sometimes 'pop' a bit too much at this scale.
An unexpected benefit of this approach was that it allows the base coat to come through a bit, as a sort of pre-shade. It also means I can add two or three more layers of each paint to help with the tonal variation of each colour I have on the mixing palette - effectively creating two or three variations of each colour - and doubling or trebling the number of colours in use without opening a lot of paints. It also helps to stop it looking too 'toy' like.
I had to stop for dinner but that was probably not a bad thing as it forced me to stop and take stock of where I'd got to.
I'm going to do a few more tiles from the initial colour palette below, before moving onto some lighter colours now I have the hang of it - I reckon I've done no more than a quarter so far and probably less
Below are two pictures from each side - one close up and one from a more normal viewing distance of about 3 feet, although it looks farther away than that.
Please be honest with your comments!
ATB
Andrew
PS it's all a bit browner/darker in real life....
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The initial colour palette...
After one hour.....