Greetings All,
I have to thank the Lincoln Hills Arts Association for treating me like royalty yesterday. I lost all track of time and yapped so much about myself that I had only 35 minutes to demonstrate my oil painting approach. Luckily Joyce, the acting president, gave me an extra 15 minutes to get the portrait looking somewhat close to the models appearance. Judy, the sitter, was just the most patient and still model I have had posing for me in a long time. I took a photo of the pose and spent about 2 hours at home cleaning up the drawing. I pretty much went after the general tones and colors while the model was in front of me. There was a good size audience watching in the auditorium and I hope I did not bore them.
Basic colors used were...Titanium White, Cad Yellow Light , Yellow Ochre, Cad Red Med , Aliziran Crimson , Ultramarine Blue, Terra Rosa , Burnt Sienna and Viridian. Linen glued on maple board.
Judy emailed me and wrote... "Frank, I lOVE the portrait. You painted out all the wrinkles and gave me thick hair. Doesn't get better than that. And in your interpretation, I think I look like a wise woman."
Judy... You had a very stately and regal appearance and I wanted to capture that....
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Beautiful as usual!
ReplyDeleteHow are you using Terra Rosa? Do you use it as a light/cool red? As opposed to Cad Red being light/warm?
Frank,
ReplyDeleteThanks again for sharing, and for the tips today at Don's class. I'm glad you were able to get there and hope the traffic doesn't keep you away.
We have a lot of fun in that class and Don is a great teacher.
Randy
Frank,
ReplyDeleteThanks again for sharing, I also appreciate the painting tips you shared about painting the light.
I'm glad you were able to make it to Don's class and hope that the traffic doesn't keep you away.
Randy
Jeremy...Great question and I will talk about it when I post the figure painting that I did this afternoon in Don Hatfield's figure painting class.
ReplyDeleteI will go into a bit of my take on color theory.
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gadzooks...freakishly beautiful portrait. I really love it.
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