Sunday, December 6, 2009

Stage 4 of Greek Self-Portrait


I was supposed to go up to Alabama today to help a friend move but that plan got bumped to next weekend. Since I was staying home, I chose to do some housework and work a little on Greek Self-Portrait. The goal for today's painting was to just block in main color areas and to make sure there was pigment on just about every canvas pixel. To begin, I first made an orange comprised of one and one-half parts Cadmium Yellow Hue with one part Cadmium Red Hue. I then mix about one part of that orange with about two parts Ultramarine Blue to make a shadow mix. That shadow mix was then applied in a transparent layer over the background and shadows. For the skin tones I used the same mix that I used for the Stage 4 of Nude With Staff. I decided to honor the color scheme of a favorite character of mine by making the upper cloth Ultramarine Blue and the lower portion "Goku" orange. Once I had enough paint on the canvas I blended it all together and called it a day.

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