Day 6 of Greek Self-Portrait

I spent most of my day working on Greek Self-Portrait, focusing on the flesh of the torso and head and a little on the arms.

Stage 5 of Greek Self-Portrait

Yesterday, I did a little work on Greek Self-Portrait for Stage 5. I basically redid everything from from Stage 4, but paid a little more attention to establishing the exact outlines of the forms and making the solid elements more opaque.

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.

Stage 3 of Greek Self-Portrait & Nude with Staff

In addition to working on and filming Stage 2 of MC Beat-MO Bo, I also completed Stage 3 for both Greek Self-Portrait and Nude with Staff today. For both these paintings, Stage 3 utilized a transparent layer of Viridian Hue in the shadow areas.

Stage 2 of Greek Self Portrait & Nude with Staff

I worked a little more on moving things this morning and hopefully soon I'll be able to start devoting full days to painting. Today for my painting time I added a transparent layer of Alizarin Crimson to both Greek Self-Portrait and Nude with Staff .

Stage 1 of Greek Self-Portrait: Projection

All the time I spent on moving and cleaning took away from all the time I should have spent working on Agent Wyn A'taj in order to have it ready for the juried show next week. Add to this the holiday this week and my plan to visit Montgomery this weekend and the ability to have Agent Wyn A'taj completed in time becomes even more non-existant. So, I decided not to worry about getting it done (I have plenty of other works I can submit) and moved onto creating some figure and cloth study paintings that I can alternate between as I work. The first one of these is what I'm refering to as a Greek Self-Portrait. For this stage one I utilized my typical method of using a black and white print-out to project from and Ultramarine Blue acrylic paint to establish my forms.