Portrait 44/100

 

Here is the next installment in my 100 portrait project. Thank you to Yulia Dereshko on the Museum by Sktchy app for the great reference photo. I loved including the abstract yellow shape in the background (also in the reference). It's 8x8" oil paint on mdf panel. 

I usually sketch before I paint, but for most of this piece I started out without a sketch and instead patched in some color areas. I wanted to see the result of this approach, which I'm frankly not as comfortable with. It started off almost right, though. As I went, I fixed the proportions, etc, and continued adding detail.

I used a limited palette of pyrrole red, magenta, hansa yellow medium, ultramarine blue, and white. I tried to get a more atmospheric painting in which the figure is more a part of the background and not so starkly separate. More learnings needed!