Tool pouch: progress so far

[YinTx]

Fantastic inspired effort putting that design together.  Having tooled one purse body, can confirm it is a lot of tapping to boot.

YinTx

[OldCanuck]

I got Longs Peak finished!

I temporarily lost my ambition, because I just didn't feel like mixing dyes to get the colors I needed. But I finally kicked myself in the butt and got to it.

I'm using Eco-Flow Cova Color, because that's what I'm familiar with and it will give me the desired shades. So first I made myself some color swatches.

I had done a practice piece, to get back into rhythm before I committed to carving the real thing. So I mixed up some Rocky Mountain grey (three shades, not 50) and colored the practice piece. It sucked. Sorry, bad language? Okay, it inhaled deeply. But it gave me needed practice, and it helped me figure out what to do with the real thing.

The snowfields on the practice piece were awful, and the shading was all wrong. So I did a snow study using a White-out and a photocopy of the real workpiece. And I did a shading study using my tracing pattern.

 

I'll post the rest of the pictures tomorrow.

 

Edited May 21, 2022 by OldCanuck

[OldCanuck]

One coat of the lightest grey:

Mountains are finished, first coat of sky:

All done! I used one shade of forest green on the trees. I'm not happy with it; it makes them look flat, compared ot the mountain. I'm going to go back and highlight the trees in the foreground with a different shade of green, maybe lightened with a little bit of yellow, to give them some depth.