Hello everyone,
I am presenting my last job: the splendid lathiem of La Torre (what a wonderful miniature!)
It is for me a “study miniature”, where I wanted to try new techniques.

Below I translate you the article that I wrote for legio pictorum. Unfortunately  I speak English badly, but I hope that it is understandable although possibly full of errors. Please forgive me for this.

I hope that it can be useful!

As a “study miniature” there are a series of things that I wanted to investigate:

-- The atmosphere, the study of light and colour: in this case a night setting and "wet", I wanted the miniature to be illuminated by a faint lunar light, it was especially on the zenith (which in reality zenithal follows one direction but shifted slightly to the right of the viewer)

-- The colour temperature, in the wake of the work done on my ice ork I still wanted to study the possibilities related to the use of contrasting warm against cool. In this case the miniature bottom area by warm colours (pants, leather) going to cool colours at the top (skin and the sword which is the most cold in chromatic terms) suggesting in this way, the intervention of a "very cold" lighting.

-- Third and newest for me, I wanted to study the use of oil colours (being a novelty I used them only for a few things at the beginning, and then the whole miniature at the end).

SKIN

In this piece skin is the focal point of miniature. What I wanted was to get a realistic feel but at the same time use a very strange color, pallid, almost ghostly.

I started from a base of a purplish average (uniform pale violet brown vallejo + hormagount purple foundation gw )

I then made a wash with a darker color  obtained by adding black and dark sea blue vallejo on the basic mixes.

Then I started layering first with kaki kommando, then with a cold grey (a blue grey very clear of vallejo). Once arrived at the maximum light I added mixes clear dark sea blue and white to get a very cold white to the latest lights.

Exactly as I explained in my old tutorial on washings, I worked hard on chromatic variations, extremely light. This light colours as a medium tone, I then changed the tone by adding a purple and red (scab red ) washings intermediate to obtain a non-linearity in chromatic nuances.
In a very tenuous color that tends to a grey, shadows blue turns from purple to average up to the clear and ice white. Many of these steps are lost through pictures unfortunately ...

Finished to the last light skin is over ... Perhaps .. (Continued)