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Blackfoot Raven Bearer Bust
Posted by ajlafleche on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 11:50 AM

Here is my interpretation of Young Miniatures’ 1/10 Blackfoot Raven Bearer bust as sculpted by Carl Reid. He is painted in acrylics and posed on a buckeye burl base from John Jeffries. The raven was first painted purple then given washes of black to retain some iridescence. The pictographs on the buffalo robe are patterned after some examples from my references. His face paint is based on a painting of  Mehkskehme-Sukahs, a Blackfoot chief, by Karl Bodmer who travelled among the people of the northern plains in the 1830’s and did many portraits of them.

Enjoy.

Bodmer’s painting

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Posted by modelchasm on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 5:28 PM

Nice job, AJ .... your fleshtones are really smooth. The only thing that I see is that the raven still looks a little blue/ purple... but I think that might be the background pulling out that color ...

Awesome job on this...

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 6:06 PM

Truly excellent painting.

Regards,  Rick

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Posted by shoot&scoot on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 9:03 PM

WOW!  Really nice work......................

                                                                                  Pat.

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Posted by bbrowniii on Thursday, December 2, 2010 10:09 AM

You continue to amaze Al.  Nice work!

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Posted by p38jl on Thursday, December 2, 2010 12:42 PM

very sweet ! nice job.. Toast

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Posted by jetmodeler on Friday, December 3, 2010 6:14 AM

Excellent job.Yes

 

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Posted by ajlafleche on Sunday, December 5, 2010 11:53 AM

Thanks for all the  nice comments. I appreciate them.

Al

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Posted by spiralcity on Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:06 PM

This looks great! Nice work. Yes

 

 

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