Tathlum 
Demonoid Phenomenon

Media- plasticote flat oils. 
Size- 35mm

I started with a primer coat of  Krylon spray white primer. Then an all over coat of  a deep golden yellow.
I mix all my own colors, so I will just refer to them by a general name rather than brand and color names.
After the yellow coat went on, I took the pallet and filled 6 wells with the base color of yellow. Stared adding red in very small amount in the first well, a little more in the next and so on. In a 4 more wells I put pure red in and then, added gray to darken the last 3. I now had a ten color spectrum, from golden yellow to dark red. 

Thinned them out quite a bit, about until the consistency of milk. Then placing the figure upside down I started 
washing the lightest color yellow-orange, at the rib line. then I let it dry completely. After that washed on the next shade an orange, repeating this processes until I got about half way up the back, legs, and head. Flipping the figure back onto its feet, I stared on the opposite end of my spectrum.

After the body had dried and was done to my satisfaction I sealed it with a light coat of matte spray. That will save you lots of repair work. Only if your using oils that is. I wouldn't recommend it for acrylics, they may not have very good adhesion with the matte spray. 
After that I mixed up some browns and grays for the claws, and spikes. For the big horns on his head I used a dark base and then went light with a nice long lash line brush for the soft touch of blending.

I mixed up some tan for his soft underbelly, and washed in some black to "dirty" it up a bit. His "guzzle" under his chin is a base coat of pink, then a touch of white and blue mix for a blend again a nice long lash liner will help soften your touch for blending. Then a touch or 2 of some lighten red, and his neck sack was done.

A nice reptilian black and yellow eye was next, put a little of the red around it for definition. I painted the teeth, and then thinned out some of the 2nd shade of the darker red. Added some brown, to get dark blood color.
Then I tried something I have never done- I dipped the brush into the "blood" and flicked it with my finger to "spatter" on his belly , I like how that worked out. put  little around his mouth for that- "this is all that left of my last victim look". 

Started on the base- I find the wooden craft shapes you can find at Michael's works the best. I seal them with matte spray before I do anything. I then affixed him with some hot glue. "painted on a coat of good old elmers and buried him up to his waist in "sand art" sand- tan in color.

While that dried I started the skeleton parts- sculpey was the media for this. rolled out general shapes, and pressed in some details- the skull of course was the hardest- I looked at a skeleton figure I had and tried to copy it. after baking it I X-acto'ed in the finer details. I wasn't to concerned with them because I knew I could hide the mistakes by "burying" them in the base. I prepainted them with yellows and greens, trying for that burnt rotting look. Then I took him out of the sand placed the skeleton parts as I wanted them and applied more elemers- back into the sand it went. A couple more applications were needed to build up the base. After that I washed the base with browns grays and black. Dirtied him up a little with some brown wash and then sealed  him up with matte.

All in all this was a fun project to paint, looking forward to the next contest I can get into. Thanks for reading this.