Satisfied with the blue and white I place
the white stripe “Stretchmask” pieces
back into position. A nice even base of
E’TAC Naphthol Red is the next step fol-
lowed by reduced Auto Air Deep Red to
start building the waves on the side. Once
I am satisfied with the waves, I go back
over the deepest parts in the waves with
the reduced black mixture. I then remove
the Mask from the white stripes and add
the final shadows (reduced Black) and
highlights (light layers of E’TAC White)
to the entire flag to finish it off.
With the flag complete I have now begun working on the eagle. First thing I did was cut out the
deepest shadows around his eye, leaving the eyeball itself covered. I spray light layers of carbon
black to give me the eye placement; now I cut out the rest of the eagle leaving only the beak
covered. At this point I also lift off the two rips that will be falling behind the eagle’s head and
notice a little blue overspray were the Stretch mask did not lay properly (notice the top right rip
area). The E’TAC EFX paints are “erasable” paints, so later I will take the electric eraser and
begin cleaning off all overspray that may have occurred. I begin adding color to the eagle head.
With the beak almost complete I be-
I applied a piece of Stretch mask and cut
gin working on the inside of the eagles
I first spray the reduced black mixture in
out just the beak. This will protect other
mouth. I use a small piece of Sticky
light layers to begin building the feathers.
areas from overspray and give me the
Mickey masking and mask off the beak
This is just the layout don’t worry about
hard edge on the front of the beak that
to prevent overspray. This will also allow
mistakes at this point they can be covered.
I want. I sprayed a few layers of Auto
me to get the hard edge on the bottom of
Using eight drops of E’TAC Opaque Ti-
Air Transparent Sun Gold as a base for
the beak that I want. I then spray light
tanium Plasma White and one small drop
the beak. With the base established I
layers of the sun gold and FW Acrylic
of E’TAC Arylide Yellow I begin build-
mix one drop of FW Acrylic Sepia into
mix to the inside edges of the mouth; this
ing another layer of feathers, To that mix
the sun gold and use this mixture for the
is followed up by using the reduced black
I add one drop of carbon black which I
shading on the beak. The photo shows
mixture and outlining the tongue and key
use for shading some of the feathers, eye
were I have begun adding the highlights.
areas. Once the layout is complete I use
and brow area. I keep going back and
After this I go back over the area with
E’TAC Transparent Magenta and color
forth with the two mixtures above until I
several light layers of sun gold. I will
the tongue and inside of the mouth. After
am satisfied with the feathers. Lastly I go
apply light layers of the reduced black
this I go back over with the black mixture
back with the E’TAC White to highlight
shading mixture near the tip of the beak.
for shadows as you see in the next photo.
the feathers.
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