My first painted model

Late last week I happened upon a DIY project I wanted to finish to show you guys this week, but unfortunately it's taking waaaaay longer than I expected. Seems like that always happens...

Anywho, instead I'd like to show you something else I'm proud of - the first model I ever painted.

I spent most of the day before I painted it fiddling with palette creators, never really happy with what I was coming up with. Finally, I copped out and settled for one of my favorite color schemes: purple, blue and orange (or, if you'd like to get technical: red-violet, blue-violet, and red-orange).

If you're thinking of the three colors as the ones you find in the rainbow, that's a really loud combination, but when they're muted, tinted, and/or desaturated, it can end up looking really interesting.

I was a bit worried about choosing to make her skin blue, since it wasn't too long after a particularly popular movie with scantily clad blue people came out, but I think it works. It's tinted and grayed out enough that she doesn't look like a Na'vi.

I had a lot of help painting it since I was with several other people, but this was really fun to do, and I even got to do a wash and some dry brushing. Even with her base showing some white (whoops!) I'm really proud of this one.