Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Aug 14th: Portrait in Oil Paint



I feel like I'm trapped in an endless cycle of shading, painting over it because it looks bad and shading again.  That's all I've done for 3 days.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  I've tried diluting the paint, adding different color combinations, smudging and blending.   The result is still the same.  His face looks dirty. 
When I try to blend it, the shading gets too light and I have to add more.  And back to the same problem of the dirty face.  I'm fighting the compulsion to throw the painting across the room.
I did lengthen the lips.  I don't know how good it looks now, but I changed them.  And worked on the collar area.  But... ugh.  I should just work on the uniform and leave the face til later.
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