This is the photo of my dad I'm basing the painting on:
It's an old one but it's a nice photo (and it scaled up easily to the canvas size).
I should warn you now, I paint in a very particular way. If you've seen my paintings before you know what I mean but I'll show you a few examples.
The first two I did when I was in Lower 6th so when I was 17 and the last was one of my final A-level pieces when I was 18. If you know your art, I'd say mine was a mix of Kokoschka (as you can see from the two older ones) and an unfinished Gainsborough (see The Artist's Daughters with a Cat). So you can sort of guess how it might end up.
Now I haven't done any sort of proper drawing for well over a year so I didn't think my initial canvas sketch turned out too bad. Oh and if you've spotted the problem here, yes I am painting in oils, and yes Christmas is only a week away, however I use Liquin when I paint and also Siccative which help thin out and dry out the paint faster when you paint in lots of layers.
This is how far I got today.
The basic pencil drawing |
Background wash - I know I should have done that before I drew it out but I always forget!! |
Blocking in colour and basic shadow contours as a guide. |
I'll take photos along the way to show you how its getting on (if I remember...)
And Merry (nearly) Christmas!
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