Tutorial - How to paint some burned wood
by Roman aka jar
posted by roman, jarhead, kong
A new week welcomes you to the jungle with great good Morning Music out of a truely epic movie :)
Lately i was thinking how to create a wood piece that looks really burned by fire. I went back to the simple neanderthalian way of burning it, but I did use crackle medium first. I will do it at a RBG Troll's wood club made from Resin. We did this last week also on a real wood piece and it worked very well.
I did this procedure in early progress of my painting work for getting the overview as early as possible.
Putting Crackle Medium at place, very thick.
Wait until it dries out and crackles. Then prime it black. I did this with Spray. Drying. Then use a lighter and burn the place. Do this outside and don't set yourself on flame. Keep your eye upon the flame, control it, when you see a flame blow it out that is too much. Also keep your eye on the time - there is no need to complete burn away your Miniature - just gentle 15~20 Seconds and maybe repeating. Swift and gentle.
Priming:
After the fire and some growing painting progress.
I just made sure that i gently drybrush the place with some dark grey to make the cracklings stand out more. The black pigments created by the fire will do the main work here - as they make it look burned in the end - still Work in Progress RBG Troll with burned resin club, but crackle medium first :)
Don't burn yourselfes and keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman
A new week welcomes you to the jungle with great good Morning Music out of a truely epic movie :)
Lately i was thinking how to create a wood piece that looks really burned by fire. I went back to the simple neanderthalian way of burning it, but I did use crackle medium first. I will do it at a RBG Troll's wood club made from Resin. We did this last week also on a real wood piece and it worked very well.
I did this procedure in early progress of my painting work for getting the overview as early as possible.
Putting Crackle Medium at place, very thick.
Wait until it dries out and crackles. Then prime it black. I did this with Spray. Drying. Then use a lighter and burn the place. Do this outside and don't set yourself on flame. Keep your eye upon the flame, control it, when you see a flame blow it out that is too much. Also keep your eye on the time - there is no need to complete burn away your Miniature - just gentle 15~20 Seconds and maybe repeating. Swift and gentle.
Priming:
After the fire and some growing painting progress.
I just made sure that i gently drybrush the place with some dark grey to make the cracklings stand out more. The black pigments created by the fire will do the main work here - as they make it look burned in the end - still Work in Progress RBG Troll with burned resin club, but crackle medium first :)
Don't burn yourselfes and keep on happy painting!
Best Wishes
Roman
As allways when you explained i allways think...D'oh...
Thanks great idea!!!!
I will present something very similar on the German GD from 2 pm, but instead I will use real Wood first, then the Crackle Medium...:)... It is a Great Effect to Show Charred / Burned Wood and really easy due to the Crackle...
Oh and if you use the BLACK Crackle Medium you don´t need to prime it and cannot see it once small Parts chip away... Still, you will have to paint the Transition either with an Airbrush or a Brush in order to achieve an Realistic Result...
Yup, great look. If you use real wood just keep in mind that the longer you burn it, the more of the crackle medium disappears and the real wood gets burned. So the upmost layer gets really thin and the tiniest touch reveals a white undercover. Still, I can only encourage everyone to try it.
Many thanks for your additions!
Great post!