Lady with curly red hair in beach setting - WIP stages
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| WIP stages of the figure in progress. |
Painted during Autumn 2019 this oil
painting, sized at 33” x 23”, features a woman with a deep
interest in spirituality and other mysterious aspects of life. She
was painted against a made up sea background to reflect her Aquarius
astrological star sign, the original photo being taken in a car park! The first panel shows a drawing, done in
brown acrylic paint on a lighter brown wash. Suggestions of tones and
highlights have been added, again in acrylic. In the middle panel a
rough underpainting has been applied in oils, which provides a base
to the final intended colours. These under-painted layers are thinly
applied, using an artists paint thinner or similar medium. In the
final panel we see the completed painting with thicker paint applied.
All of the colours and details are correctly done to the intended
values of colour and tone. On top of this completed painted layer
when dry is a 'glaze' layer, which is a further coat of paint applied
thinly within a thickish transparent medium. This is used to
highlight certain elements in the painting and empathise the colour.
The under layer of paint partly shows through the glaze layer adding
depth to the colour as seen by the human eye, and not really a camera
lens however. The face and hair were tackled in such a way while the sky and
sand were left as is. This portrait oil painting can be seen in
greater detail here.
