HirstArts Fieldstone Color Tests

Before I start, there is a KEY technique I use across all of these: I don’t dry brush in a sweeping motion. I dry brush each layer in a different direction. This cause different colors to be collected in different pockets and not get totally covered by the next layer.

I also tend to think that floors are dirtier than walls so I basecoat them brown and build up from there. Walls are basecoated as needed.

All of these test were done on Flowstone Black bricks (Dental Plaster).

• Brown basecoat
• Paint random stones in bright colours. The blue ones are straight cyan. Other colours include Red, Orange, Tan, etc.
• Make sure that you don’t paint the same colour on two adjacent stones
• Wash the whole thing with thinned black ink
• Dry brush up brown up through bleached bone
• If it’s still too bright, wash it with brown and touch up the bleached bone

Ice Wall

Ice Wall:

• Black basecoat
• Coating of Regal blue
• Wash of thinned blue ink.
• Dry brush of Ultramarine blue, enchanced blue and ice blue
• very fine dusting of white on the tips

Multicolour Wall

Multicolour Wall:

• Black basecoat
• Paint random stone in muted tones (pastels). Dark flesh, tan, shadow grey, etc.
• Wash of thinned black ink
• Dry brush of bluish greys

Lava Wall

Lava Wall:

• Same basic steps as the Ice Wall
• Run a thin wet brush of Blood Red through all the cracks
• Use a thinner brush and run Blazing Orange along the center of the Blood Red
• Run a brush over loaded with yellow ink along the cracks. You want it to creep up the sides of the stones. This makes a “glowing” glaze

Natural Wall

Natural Wall (In real life, this is the best looking wall – flash made it glossy):

• Black basecoat
• Mix of brown and grey (can’t remember the mix)
• Wash of thinned brown ink
• Dry brush of Codex Grey, Fortress Grey
• Dry brush of Scorpion Green into the cracks (randomly, you don’t want to do every crack)

Green Slime Wall

Green Slime Wall:

• Exactly the same as the Ice Wall but with green
• Coating of Dark Angels Green
• Wash of thinned Green ink
• Dry brush Snot Green, Goblin Green, Scorpion Green
• Very light dusting of Badmoon Yellow (not white)

Mortared Wall

Mortared Wall:

• The concept on this test is that the stones are held in place by lighter mortar
• Randomly paint stones with browns: Graveyard Earth, Snakebite Leather, Bubonic Brown, etc.
• Wash of brown ink
• Dry brush of grays and browns but not Bleached Bone
• Using a wet brush (over loaded) run thinned (not too much) of Bleached Bone into the cracks (like the lava wall.
• Light dry brush of scorpion green through the cracks (random).
• Somewhere I have a colour test on chipped stone, I’ll see if I can find the pics (one of the great unfinished projects)