Frida and Diego (1 Viewer)

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As usual, with spare putty I started on yet another project.
Frida's head was modified from a Preiser male and Diego's from a Historex spare.
Trying to capture their unique characteristics.
Unfortunately the pic was taken late at night in my excitement.

 

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Here's a clearer pic. I haven't done much except to build up a torso for Diego.

 

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Starting to move on this piece. Frida has had arms and a skirt added from Preiser parts. This famous couple had a tempestuous relationship enlivened by their paintings.

I made up this pose of Frida striking a dancing pose in tribute to one of her paintings. Diego is just a big guy and I intend to pose him behind her.

Their disparity in size allows me the liberty of playing around with size differences to create a visual dichotomy between them physically ( that sounded pseudo-intellectual...).

 

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Diego was further refined and built up. I use the legs cut down from a 1/20 scale Tamiya figure set.

 

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Sculpted more of Diego's trousers, giving him the portly look. Sculpted a trademark shawl wrap for Frida.

 

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Changed the pose of Diego to interact more with Frida. Added wire and Scalelink arms. I cut down the height of Frida and added Historex shoes. The lower fringe of Frida's dress was sculpted.

 

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I sculpted a coat for Diego and posed the couple together for fitting before final sculpting.

 

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After my frenzy of spring cleaning, I pored over my gray collection and pondered the possibilities of doing more pieces in between the big dioramas. Since Frida is mostly done, I only have to finish Diego to start painting.

 

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I reworked Diego pose drastically to place his hands around Frida's waist. Also turned up his right leg to show a dance step.

 

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Working on Diego.

 

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detailing Diego. Coming along.

 

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Almost done with Diego. I placed the couple together for finalisation.

 

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Ive started to lay in the colours, based on a famous primitive painting of the couple which can be found on the web.

 

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Ptd this as well.

 

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Cleaned up the figures. I added a shawl to balance the piece.

 

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Starting to ptd this again

 

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almost done.

 

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Someone said this is a rather unique piece. The most famous Mexican artist couple. What are they dancing? I replied that it was the famous Mexican hat dance. Hola.

I took another look at the naive painting on which this is based. The shawl was rather voluminous and as she is twirling, I thought that the shawl should twirl and be uplifted as well to convey movement.

So here is the further WIP before ptg it.