{"id":3093,"date":"2013-05-09T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2015-06-09T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:52:54","slug":"sometimes-the-ideas-come-right-out-of-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/05\/09\/sometimes-the-ideas-come-right-out-of-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the ideas come right out of my head…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…into whatever medium I’m working with. Timonium exemplifies these rare and welcome occurrences.<\/p>\n

When I last photoed Timonium, I had glued up his final wig and then enjoyed how much he reminded me of Jareth<\/a> from Labyrinth.<\/p>\n

I’ve been laboring intently over him yesterday and today. I did his ears and his face in a limited palette of Prismacolor watercolor pencils [French grey 20%, French grey 50%, black and white] and some diluted snow white acrylic paint. <\/p>\n

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Watercolor pencils make mouths so much easier, as I can wet my brush and push color into the creases between lips!<\/p>\n

I’ve finally figured out my faceup style: sketchy and impressionistic, but also bold and stylized, in narrow palettes. I don’t do subtle!<\/p>\n

Now painted, Timonium looks much different. At first, he seemed like a neutral alabaster statue. Originally I thought I would give him a relaxed mouth, but I decided to stick on a smirk, just to see what would happen. Suddenly he came alive with devilish attitude! in contrast to the smirk on my Jareth doll — a playful, devious one — Timonium’s smirk is dangerous and quite possibly malicious. The word that comes to mind when I look at him is chthonic.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, he’s supposed to look like the Goblin King. I was trying to capture that threatening, powerful allure he evinces when he enters Sarah’s room, sneering, smirking and sparkling.<\/p>\n

He was originally going to be avian and more grey [and possibly blue], but he obviously wanted to be grey\/black\/white instead. This starker palette accentuates his pallor, making him look kind of cadaverous.<\/p>\n

I put the red choker [a string from Jareth’s shirt]<\/a> on him because he needed a choker, and I couldn’t find a black one. I like the dark red accent enough that I’m contemplating doing his fairy feets in the same dried-blood color. Maybe splatters, as if he’s been walking through blood. He strikes me as that kind of person. Probably drinks it too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, onto the pictures….<\/p>\n

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This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1504961.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…into whatever medium I’m working with. Timonium exemplifies these rare and welcome occurrences. When I last photoed Timonium, I had glued up his final wig and then enjoyed how much he reminded me of Jareth from Labyrinth. I’ve been laboring intently over him yesterday and today. I did his ears and his face in a… Continue reading Sometimes the ideas come right out of my head…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[673,643],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faceups","tag-timonium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}