Portrait 25/100

One quarter of the way there! I overplayed the chroma on this one, which happens a lot. On the other hand, I used a limited palette, so the colors work well together, I think. Today’s palette: napthol red, Hansa yellow med, ultramarine blue, and warm white.

My strategy for this one was to identify 4 values on the face using an app (ChromaMagic):

 

Then I created four piles of color corresponding to each value. Each color was correct for only a small patch within the value, but I used it for the entire value anyway, filling the face with a value pattern.  After getting that simple pattern down, I went over it with more specific colors. Here is a process sequence:

Thank you to Olivia Dawes on the Museum by Sktchy app for the reference photo. 8x8” oil paint on gessoed heavy paper.