Early Renaissance French Gendarmes, new painting 19 April

[Romark]

Oooh ! Lovely 

[Totleben]

Art! 

[Stuart]

Number 4. Knight in gilt edged Maximilian armour with a painted cross of St. Denis on his breastplate.

He almost seems dull against his more colourful compatriots 

[Captain Blood]

Gosh   
Love them.

[Hu Rhu]

They look brilliant together.  Can't wait for you to base them and let them bask in all their glory.

[pocoloco]

Stunning! 

[Atheling]

Really lovely 

And very inspiring!! 

Darrell.

[Gangleri]

Beautiful and meticulous work as always, Stuart.  They look as though they've ridden straight out of a contemporary illustration.

[aircav]

These are superb 

[Steve63]

This project just keeps getting better and better
 

[Atheling]

The more I look at the beautiful piccies Stuart, the more I want to paint some that I've had primed and undercoated for a few years!!

Hastings (and Haggis!) first though..... but a few wouldn't hurt surely?

Darrell.

[archiduque]

Fantastic work!!

[Stuart]

I'm Currently working on another geometric caparison pattern and thought I'd share this WIP to hopefully illustrate the method I use.

I prepare the base colour then apply the brown dots in rows, this way, if one is out of line you can just overpaint and start again having not lost too much time and effort. Each dot then centres the motif in the grid, in this instance I'm using stylised stars but I'd do the same if they were fleur de lys or whatever.

The other thing to add is to paint the area as a whole rather than each bit of attached caparison, it looks better and replicates what tended to be done; an overall design in component parts.

Finally, keep the rows straight rather than bending them around the contours, this ensures the geometrical look.

More soon hopefully

Stuart

[AlyMorrison]

Really nice Stuart ....

How many more ?

......100......

All the best.  Aly

[Jeff965]

Nice to see how the "magic" is created, more please