I’m a big fan of the small French miniatures manufacturer Blacksmith. I backed their Kickstarter bringing to miniature life the artwork of illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge, and I have a few other minis of theirs as well. I have been impressed every time by their finely detailed and clean casting, and I love Blacksmith’s children’s book aesthetic.
I was very excited, therefore, to see Blacksmith offering a new sculpt by Matthieu Rouèche, whose beautiful and distinctive painting I have admired for a long time. Blabla, as Rouèche is sometimes known, has provided box art for a lot of Blacksmith’s models, but this is the first figure he has added to their range. I can only say that it fits right in!
On Touille I’m trying to further my study of powerful color which I began on Radigundus. I’ll probably tone things down from where they stand here, but I do want to retain the strength of those beautiful tones. Let me know what you think.
Keep your brushes wet!
That is a great looking sculpt and those tones really are amazing. You’ve seemingly mastered how to do skin tones with busts in very short order! I think this guy looks like a jolly pirate, perhaps from Peter Pan or the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyworld but regardless, it is a lot of fun.
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Thanks for your kind words, bud. I love painting busts, largely because of the scope for both nuance and drama in the skintones and elsewhere.
Personally, I am reminded of Dopey the dwarf!
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