This is an 8x8" oil painting based on a photo of my son from a few years ago. I think his hands are beautiful in the reference, and I was more than challenged trying to replicate them here in the painting. I'm back to using my limited palette of ultramarine, pyrrole red, and hansa yellow medium, plus titanium white. I had been adding in burnt umber recently, and that is a very handy color for mixing a rich black, but it also takes forever to dry, and I'm not convinced it ever fully dries. Maybe I'm using an unfortunate brand.
This is another paintover. Here are some process shots:
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