From SimonG: A Seductive Sazae-Oni Out For Your Unmentionables ... (30 points)

 To bring things to a close I offer up another Black Rose Wars figure from Ludus Magnus Studios -- the (what I think is) Sazae-Oni, or snail woman.

Actually she's more of a slug woman as I cannot find her shell (perhaps it's under her kimono!). This certainly led to an odd set of references as you can see

The mythology of Sazae-Oni is that they are temptresses who lure seafarers and then cut off their testicles, or in colloquial Japanese the kin-tama (or "golden balls"!)

Anyway I wanted her to look smart and in keeping and really enjoyed working on the cherry blossom kimono -- lots of time to get a deep and richly shaded base red coat and then details with a fine liner pen for the branches and then impressionistic splotches for the flowers and leaves.  All other colours were picked to match the patterns in the kimono.

Brutal close ups show I messed up the beauty spot over the left eye -- need to go back in with my magnifier and fix this! 

Getting white makeup skin tone is hard work -- GW apothecary white makes a good fondation but unfortunately there's no easy way of correcting errors unlike in more normal skin tones where you can reapply the base and then wash over it -- base and wash in one mean this doesn't work as the contrast paint doesn't cover errors unlike a base coat ... 

I think this lady makes a nice match with Lune -- witchcraft and moody sorcery! So gives me another 25 points (call her a 28mm figure plus the 20 point planet bonus).

 

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"Actually, she's more of a slug woman" - stuff I read during The Challenge.

 

Very fine brushwork on this challenging painting subject. I am adding extra bonus points for the complicated dress and makeup. Very nice Simon. 

 

GregB