Tuesday, August 21, 2012

August 21st: Portrait in Oil Paint





It's my birthday today blog!  I picked up the paint brush again today after a few days of wanting to burn the portrait.  
What happened was I tried to fix the shading under the nose and ended up using too cool of a color.  I turned the painting green!  Papa looked like a zombie.  Ugh.  I don't even have photographic evidence of this horror, but as you can see, the shading was horrid.
 

Today there was some miracle.  I fixed the color.  Half-fixed the lips (still have to add pigment to the bottom)  and greatly improved the eyes.  Lots of detail work today and highlighting.  At this point, I'm not going to mess with the face much more because I'll run the risk of screwing it up again. 
Tackling the lips, ear and uniform tomorrow.   My birthday present to me was a new brush case, clear finishing varnish and a brush wash. I'm good to go!


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