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Caroline Street - A new adventure – Part 2


Job's Modelling

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Pavement and road are in place. But although the printed version is very good, I prefer to give it a personal touch.

 

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Another problem I had to solve was my way of weathering. When I started using my pastel pencil I noticed some scratching on the surface of printed pavement. So I re-read an article about colouring black and white photographs. In this article the recommended the use of soft pastels. I decided to give that a try. In an art shop I asked some advice and I went home with a small range of Schmincke soft pastels, fitting to my color palette for Caroline Street.

Schimcke has all pastel colors in 5 different shades from dark to light.

These pastels are very, very soft indeed. So applying it directly to my textures didn’t work out. Then I used some fine sanding paper to get some pastel powder. Almost like pigment.

With a very fine synthetic brush I applied a small amount of pastel on the texture and with a cotton but I worked it on the surface. This looked very promising, so I decided to go on with this method.

 

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For the pavement I used Neutral Grey M and for the sides of the kerbing Neutral Grey D. Both colors I also for weathering some parts of the road.

For the kerbings I used mixture of Grey violet O, Neutral Grey D and some Silver.

I used Sepia Brown O for a start and for some parts Vandyke brown O for the road. The yard is weathered with the same colors, but I used more layers of Vandyke brown O there.

 

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On the textured Fine Art Photo paper it is possible to use also pastel pencils. I used the pencils also to color edges before gluing.

 

If anyone has useful information, comments or suggestions please let me know.

 

Kind regards,

Job

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  • RMweb Gold

You are a stone artist Job! :-) I suppose it should not be too dark because it is seen from a distance?

 

Can Iask yout the measurements of the pavements slabs? I used the Wills pavement on the bay at Farthing, but always felt they looked a little overscale.

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Hello Mikkel,

 

The color is in real almost like the last picture. But you are missing here some detail of the embossed setts.

By using Fine Art photo paper the color are darker, I prefer deeper here,

This will surprise me sometimes, I sure of that, when I'm starting with the structures.

 

The size of the pavement is not that easy to answer. I found this about Yorkstone pavement on the internet:

 

"There are variable lengths of 900mm, 750mm, 600mm, 450mm
and 300mm and a standard width of 600mm.
Choice of nominal thickness: 50mm and 75mm
 
In streets with narrow footways or with vehicle overrun problems,
400 x 200 x 75 slabs to be used.
 
from Standard Footway Materials  - Streetbook 2005 - Borough of Islington
 
The slabs of Scalescenes are about 4 mm width and 11 mm long.

Hope this answer is useful.

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  • RMweb Gold

Thanks very much Job! I only meant what is the Scalescenes pavement size, but the extra information you found on real Yorkstone pavement is even better. Much appreciated! 

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