On my blog of June 25th you see the beginning of a portrait from a demo in the class I teach. In that one I taught the students to draw the face in, then the shapes of the values and colors. I had them mix three values of skin color, dark, medium and light. From there I had them paint in the values as they saw them on the model’s face. You see the results in the picture on the left.
The painting on the right is from the next class when I took the portrait further. I painted the iris of the eyes, the dark pupil, then a dot of white for a highlight. That dot is what gives the painting life. Next I worked on the color in the eyelids and lips. At that point I brushed some hair color and red in the cheeks.
I’m fed up with trying to paint like others want me to. I’m tired of the central Indiana art scene. The only way to make it with them is to paint barns. You have to use the same exact techniques. You can’t tell the difference between one artist and the other. Their paintings fill the local galleries and gather dust. From now on, I’m going to paint what I feel like and how I feel like. I don’t care if I ever get into another show or sell another painting.
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