Water Elemental

Description	:	This lovely figure from a Reaper's Lesser Elementals set (Dark Heaven 2538), sculpted by the talented Sandra Garrity. I painted the elemental with the same technique used to paint cabochon (i.e., round) gems: base coat, darkened at the top, lightened at the bottom, with a pure white reflective dot or line at the top. I used Reaper Master Series paints, using Marine Teal as the base coat. I then used thinned Deep Ocean (a slightly darker shade) with a little Clear Blue and just a touch of Clear Green to work on the upper surfaces. The areas of "translucent light" are Surf Aqua, again with a little Clear Blue and Clear Green, then the same mixed with Pure White. Last, I gave the upper sections pure white reflections, as you do with the gems. Testers Gloss Cote did the rest.

Poll results:
Number 3 overall.
First Choice: 2 votes
Second Choice: 2 votes
Third Choice: 4 votes

From:	Michael Stubbs` (LavronYor)	(Tue 23 Jan 2007 02:55:03 PM CST)
This technique for translucence is amazing. Extremely well done. I would love to see some works in progress on this.

From:	nathan (blackfly)	(Thu 08 Feb 2007 10:21:37 PM CST)
Wow. This is truely creative, /and/ very well executed. I'm impressed. ;) Really nice job.