Close Up

Finished

The painting is complete. I am very happy with it. I feel I worked out most of the kinks in pre-construction. I have often stated that every painting should have a point when it is completly broken. This painting was painted acording to plan, it was never broken, and so be it, I am happy with it.

So now agian I am in a tricky spot. The finishing point is in sight. I don't want to leave the painting under worked but I dont want to over work it. I must use caution in these final stages. Now the painting is devided into four parts. The flesh, the clothing, the blnkit and the background. It's important to work on all for an equal amout so that one spot does not look over worked. Often times in portriture it is easy to just work on the face. I don't want to make this mistake.

From now On I have my colors mixed. There will be no more mixing of pigments. For the colors I will only mix in white to create Hue. I will be covering up most of the yellow under paining but that yellow will be a very important influence on color. The yellow will show through the translucent paint medium that I will be applying. These two layers, the under-painting and the translucent layers will combine into one color.

Color Planning

I feel that the painting is where I want it. Now it is time for color planning. I will first make the four colors on the left. Then I will mix these colors to get the colors on the right. The numbers show the percentage of each color I will use in the mixtures

step 4

I mixed three colors into the 50/50/ mixture of Turpentine and Oil I created earlier. I mixed 1/3 cadmium yellow, 1/3 red hue/, and 1/3 zink white. the consistency of these three colors and medium was that of a milkshake.It created a pleasant orange. I added this in places as mid-tone. After I added orange mid tones I proceeded with the add/take away technique.