Painting a green skull is tricky. I sort of wanted to avoid having that cheesy 80's metal album cover look, monster truck feel, and comic book/cartoon skull from Scooby Doo appearance. Not sure if I came out victorious wrestling with the color green. Let me know in the comments if I have to work on the cheese factor. Now I want to eat some cheese...mmm.
If you have any cool TASTEFUL examples of green skulls please link me to some.
Painting was done with acrylic on canvas board. I hate hate hate canvas board, but I experimented with prepping the surface with Golden's Fine Pumice Gel using a palette knife to cover the crappy canvas texture a bit. I strongly recommend using it to give your surface a smoother more "concrete" or "plaster" sort of effect. Golden makes Pumice Gel in fine, course, and extra course. Extra course is excellent for that rocky or sidewalk sort of look. OH! Also, the Fine Pumice Gel feels great to draw on with graphite.
For color reference I used a bunch of different images, but this one from Stanley Kubrik's, The Shining, proved to be extra useful.
