Well it’s been a very productive start to the week, due mainly, I think, to the simple task of setting some goals for the first quarter of this year. As a result of this, I’ve scheduled various tasks in my diary to ensure I have time to paint. ‘Obvious’ you may say; ‘been doing that for years’ you may say but it’s taken me a while to catch on. Consequently I have made good progress on 6 paintings; these are to be oil paintings on bold, plain coloured backgrounds. I’ve finished the tonal underpainting and am now ready for the coloured oil glazes. These are a little experimental – I’ve enjoyed the oil paintings on linen and will be doing more, but I thought it would be fun to use the same technique on a different sort of background. I’m interested to see what a difference the choice of background colour will make on the look and mood of the portrait. Colour fascinates me anyway and I’m hoping to explore this sometime soon – but that’s for another post.Â
The colour used for these portraits make the skin look an unhealthy shade but all will come right after a few oil glazes. Watch this space – I hope to be posting the finished paintings soon.
A bit late posting the completion of this face. The difference between these 2 pictures is minuscule but I’ve included them both anyway commander le viagra. One of the beauties about this method of portrait painting is that, once you’ve established the proportions and tones in the monotone under painting, when it comes to adding…
I’m very fortunate to be surrounded by friendly, supportive people so, when I put out a call to friends and acquaintances looking for folks happy to sit for me while I practise portrait painting from life, I had a number of responses. However, I didn’t anticipate being invited to paint the 3 friendly guys who…
Started to add a base of flesh tones. The paint is going on incredibly smoothly – I’m loving these canvases. I’m using raw sienna and light read with white for my flesh tones – these are my go-to colours for portraits. Another layer of paint, the colours are starting to stand out on the linen….
I find the beginning of a new year the perfect time to reassess… I don’t mean make new year’s resolutions – that feels like setting myself up to fail, but I like to plan where I go from here. Christmas gives a natural break to the year – chances are I’ll have finished a number…
I’ve decided to paint this portrait in oils and I’m not regretting it. I haven’t painted a great deal in oils due to the convenience of acrylics but, within minutes of putting brush to canvas, I think I’m hooked prix viagra pfizer. I’ve been using liquin to aid the flow of the oils which has…
Have had this sketched out for a while – it’s time I started painting achat viagra generique. Here’s the first stage, the start of the underpainting in acrylic. I’m using raw umber. buff titanium and white. Once this is complete I’ll start the colour layers – I’m thinking of painting this in oils. The background…
