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Dear Subscribers,
Greetings,
...continuing from the previous newsletter
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I painted my kids.
First stage. If you look closely, there are tiny red dots on the panel
(dividing lengths into 1/4ths). These are reference points to make sure
I don't stray too far from the proportions of my reference photo. While
I'm reliant on eyeballing for accurate proportions, this trick can help
speed up that process. During this stage, I'm massing in large shapes
with a bristle brush. My normal process is to mass in shapes of shadows
in umber, but I felt like mixing things up.
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My palette of colors is a little different this time as well.
My standard palette that I normally use is:
Ivory black
Phthalo blue
Ultramarine blue
Alizarin crimson
Cadmium red
Cadmium orange
Burnt umber
Raw umber
Yellow ocher
Cad Yellow
Cad Lemon
Titanium White
In this painting, I'm using:
Ivory black
Viridian
Ultramarine blue
Cerulean blue
Violet
Alizarin crimson
Matisson pink (out of production)
Cadmium red
Cadmium orange
Burnt umber
Yellow ocher
Cad Yellow
Cad Lemon
Titanium White
Next stage. I start applying paint with the knife as well:
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Next stage:
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Next stage. Defining/locking in proportions of my son's features:
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Next stage. Tweaking proportions of features, getting into the hair,
starting on background portrait (my daughter), and getting some tone on
the entire panel:
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Next stage. Ghostly tertiary figure in the background. I'm making my
daughter high key to add depth and give a sense of the atmospheric
bright light washing over the scene. My son's head has a full value
range and remains the focus of the painting. It's this sort of
impactful manipulation that elevates a painting from the original
reference.
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Next stage. My daughter has her arm up and is looking at something in
her hand. I experiment with levels of definition and eventually decide
to make this as ambiguous as possible in order to retain dramatic focus
on the primary portrait.
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Development of my son's hair and minor adjustments all around.
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And the finished painting (16x20 oil on panel):
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Bainbridge Island Workshop
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My next workshop will be on beautiful Bainbridge Island (plenty of
great accommodation options on the island and it is a short ferry ride
away from downtown Seattle). This will be my first time working with
Winslow Art Center and I'm looking forward to it.
Still Life Composition & Painting
3-Day Workshop
January 18-20, 2020
$525
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Details and Registration
I hope you can join us!
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Thank you for reading. Until next time, best wishes. -David
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