I finished this piece and started another. I wanted to see the lines more varied and less prominent. I messed up the ink lines on the second piece. Now I have to figure out what to do to camouflage the bad drawing. I have set it aside while I ruminate. In the meantime, I am doing the exercises in a very old
Charles Reid book on portraiture
. His style has changed quite a bit over the years. This portraits in this earlier book seem more impressionistic. They seem simple! Ha! Simple is never easy.
. His style has changed quite a bit over the years. This portraits in this earlier book seem more impressionistic. They seem simple! Ha! Simple is never easy. 
6 comments:
Your ability to render the pensive mood is superb!! I really like these pieces, and the wrinkled texture supports your concept so well. What's next??
Myrna, can you remind me how you are starting these wonderful painting - and Bleeding Hearts? I think you laid down paper first and then gessoed over that? Or is the paper over the gesso? I went back and looked at Bleeding Hearts and I am not surprised that it was an award winner!!
Thanks for the kind words, Kathy. I have already started thinking about "what's next". I will start a new series in January and it will move from portraits to figures and I will be exploring pattern and working with a grid.
Rhonda, I will post my process tonight! Thanks for asking.
Your color scheme on these is just beautiful!
Hi Dan, Nice to hear from you. The colors are pretty strong. Acrylic inks have a more limited palette. I stuck with yellow orange, magenta, thalo blue and walnut, white and metallic gold.
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