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I had a quick question for the expert painters out there. How does one paint charcoal? As in a hellish landscape with tiny flames shooting out of charred earth. I was thinking a grey drybrush over black and maybe doing an orange wash, but I dunno.

How hot do you want it? The trick is to get the crevices brighter than the high spots, which is backwards from the way we normally paint. Try an orange basecoat with a yellow wash, then paint the high parts red, then black. You'll get an effect that looks like my grill on Memorial Day, or a frickin' jet engine.

For a little bit cooler, basecoat black, then carefully put a thin wash of white into the crevices. Let that dry, and hit it with a red or orange wash. Touch up the black, then drybrush the whole thing with the faintest of greys. That's my grill right before I get frustrated and dump a bottle of lighter fluid on it. Just be sure you do the red/orange before you do the grey.