Portrait 2/100! Making progress.
In making this portrait, I had just watched a video by Sarah Sedwick in which she used a limited palette for a portait, and so I tried out her colors (except I used a different red) and made piles of paint similar to hers. My palette had yellow ochre, napthol red, ultramarine blue, and titanium white.
The necklace had some brilliant blue/turquoise stones in it, which was pretty hard to convey with this palette. This painting took several hours, most of which was in the ugly stage, but I think it came together in the end. Check out the video montage for the in between stages.
The reference photo comes via the patreon of @bcliston (thank you to Bryce and model Sarah). 8x6” heavyweight paper, twice gessoed, plus a top coat of GAC100 added to make it less dry. The surface ended up a bit slippery, but I liked it better than painting right on top of gesso, which sucks up too much paint.
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