a study in red

I haven't been working a lot on the dragon lately.

A long, risky and uninspiring task : painting crème-coloured stripes all over the skin...
(on the shoulders and arms, I paint them so as to imitate muscle fibres)

Then, cover the whole thing in red.

As a result, the dragon turns a fiery red, with nice, discreet highlights. So discreet in fact that they hardly appear on the photo.

The red colour is a wild creature, quite hard to tame. This is a method, though not my favourite.