Project-a-Sketch: Male 1

Yesterday, after my experience with Agent Wyn A'taj's head I began to feel the drag of juggling four paintings at once and the tedious nature of oil painting in general. I felt I needed some instant art gratification, so I decided to try a new method of painting using my projector to give myself a break. Instead of using the projector to just establish the base of my paintings, I wanted to find a way to use it to make final products that could stand on their own. The first of these attempts was a failure, mainly because I tried to overwork it when I should have left it as it was about half-way through my work. Using that lesson I completed a second painting and am quite pleased with the results. Basically, I start with standard drawing paper that I've put a layer of gesso on each side. Then on one side I created a dark base by combining acrylic Red and Green. I then used the projector to portray the image (for this one I used a charcoal figure drawing of mine) on the canvas and used acrylic White to paint what needed to be painted and let what should be shadows go untouched.