Eggcorn Forum

Unless you know of it as a pigment, lamp black sounds as oxymoronic as coal white. The lamp in question is an oil one and in burning it produces deposits of carbon, much like that from a candle, which is still used to produce one of the many blacks available to those who paint in oils.

Since the stereotypical sheep is usually depicted wearing a near-white coat, lamb black seems only a little less oxymoronic, but they are often black of face and foot and those with a black coat provide a painterly contrast with the usual beige/vanilla/cream/eggshell/ivory ones.

(Those I can see from my window are all black, being the Black Welsh Mountain variety, or Defaid Mynydd Duad.)

This Lamb Black paint by @generalfinishes is my go to for any piece I’m painting black.

For the yellows try a white base coat instead of blue to fight the greens, new nuln oil SUCKS use a lamb black oil instead, Disco pink staff head is a great squad differentiator, go easier on the airbrush glow, and finally start with a darker blue basecoat kept having to adjust to not get sky-blue highlights

We used the mixture of White and Lamb Black oil with a little Burnt Umber paint.