[Woodcarver] Grizzly bear paint

[Rebarris at cs.com]

Somehow this thread got onto Black Bears. I believe the original question was 
about a grizzly. I would use acrylics. Get out the earth colors. Raw Umber, 
Burnt Umber, Raw sienna, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre. Check out some good 
reference photos. I think I would make a mixture of the Umbers stay on the "red" 
side. This would be my base color. I would high light the sides of the muzzle 
with Raw sienna. Paint the hump and along the spine with a lot of yellow mixed 
in. In the shadows, under the belly and the bottom of the legs I would shade 
with Raw Umber. In the rib area you could rub in some Burnt Sienna. Try to think 
hi lights and shade. This should make a pretty good looking bear.
  Bob Barris
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/woodcarver/attachments/20040106/8f8d3b13/attachment.htm