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Aela the Huntress costume is wearing only light armor to help her move fast. She wears a mostly brown outfit with a spattering of light steel armor.

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Jean Cocteau's Villa Santo Sospir. ©barlowandbarlow / Instagram At this very moment, a drunken Dionysus naps in the doorway of a villa overlooking the French Riviera. In another room, the head of Apollo keeps guard of a marble fireplace, and Diana the Huntress rounds up her nymphs in scenes of co

I enjoy using scrap matboard as a painting surface. In addition to using up 'scrap' materials that would otherwise be thrown away, the variety of color and texture makes it an excellent acid-free canvas. This is an acrylic painting on a 5X7 sheet of green matboard. The colors used were: Titanium White Mars Black Burnt Sienna Raw Umber Colbalt Blue Naples Yellow Cadmium Yellow (just a tiny bit for the eyes) Blocking in basic values I did scan the sketch, but since the matboard is so dark, my pencil lines didn't show up in the scan. So this is the earliest scan in the process - basic, grayed values. Here, I add a little raw umber to my gray mixture. More value, blocking in rough details I'm still not getting too detailed - here I'm still using a rather large brush to block in rough details, such as the feather patterns. I eventually switch to a round for the thinner feather edges. I'm still only using black, white and raw umber. Painting details, finalizing value As I push my values, I start to add subtle colors to the grays, such as a little burnt sienna to where the golden nape feathers are. My values are at about 85% here, since I know when I add my color glazes, I'll lose a little bit of my value and have to go back and touch up my highlights. Glazes, final painting From grayed browns, to a full-color eagle! By glazing a little burnt sienna with naples yellow over the nape, I give the golden eagle its 'golden' title. This eagle is inspired by Chrysos, the golden eagle at Horizon Wings, so named because of her scientific name - Aquila chrysaetos - which literally translates to "golden eagle" I use raw umber mixed with a tiny bit of colbalt blue in areas where I want a duller brown, and to push the value away from the bright orange-gold of the neck and back of the head. To make your golds really pop, you need to surround them with duller colors. A completely-golden golden eagle will look a bit boring, just as the surrounding green and white feathers of a ruby-throated hummingbird are what make that vibrant gorget so stunning.