Thursday, September 17, 2009

Portrait Painting 101, Week 2

My new class at The Drawing Studio is called Portrait Painting 101, with Mariana Carreras. I am working in oils.

For week 2, we took last week's painting an scumbled in some titanium white and cadmium red on a terra verde glaze.

This is the result:

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Portrait Painting 101, Week 1

My new class at The Drawing Studio is called Portrait Painting 101, with Mariana Carreras. I am working in oils.

The first week, we laid in portrait on a glazed canvas, using one pigment, burnt umber. The highlights are achieved by pulling up paint with solvent.

This is what I did for week one: