Painting in Progress lady with a unicorn
Going through unfinished work of late, as January as been trying to button up things in the studio and move unfinished items to done. This lady here is in her middle stages.
Of course, I've sketches and I think one watercolour of this painting as a study with the unicorn and dress, but I couldn't find it yesterday, so that is also on the list. You can see here, tho, that at this stage,as I'm building up her flesh tones, the white, blue, and violet I've laid down for the undertones in her skin. I always like to start with a cool base and then build up warmth over that.
I usually tend to move about a piece adding detail as I go, that is for oils and oil pastels and chalks. There is something about roughing in a piece then laying down the base layers and going in on a section to tighten detail that I rather like. When Stepping back to view what's been don.
There is a satisfaction in seeing the subject begin to peer out of the mist of the rough underlayers.
The painting has a figure in full dress and she is holding a little ormalu jewel box. In this section you can see the drapes of her gown are merely strokes of light over darker underlayers. One hand begins to receive the warm tones as the hand holding the box is still in it's cool tones.
This piece is called the Lady with a unicorn, as there is one in the painting. It is in such a rough state currently that I think I'll wait to share that if and when I finish it. Sometimes, in pieces like this, if I hit a point where I don't want to continue on, I can paint out things and play up the misty outter elemetents and end up with a piece I actually like as well.
It can have that feeling of a figure stepping out of a painting
and I rather like that; we shall see what becomes of our lady. But, for today, I wanted to share her with you as it's what I'm up to in the studio today.
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Simply spectacular. I love your painting. Probably best if you make into a an NFT.
Oh maybe she will end up as an NFT good idea. @daveyjones7
😁 I will be glad if it ends up as an NFT.
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I love her facial expression. She's so delicate and a little bit vulnerable or perhaps more like sulking and looking down. Amazing! Can't wait to see the finished work.
Looks great!! This is digital right? Love the traditional approach, color blending is so nice 😍
Yes, digital oil and oil pastels, I start with sketch IRL. I'm trained in traditional oils so I sort of approach it the same way as an actual canvas.
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That's shaping up real nice!
How do you manage to build skin tones up from cool? o_O
Well, when we see our own skin , well as a pale skinned person?, there is always a blue/cool cast usually form the blue of veins and then over the the flush pinks and warm oranges just blend to give that feeling of flushed skin over cool blue veins, haha. Just how I've always done it, of course I remember studying klimt figures and such in classes and starting with white blobs to try and build up faces.
I do not have pale skin XD
It's also not really something I've noticed with the pale skinned people that I do know (may have to look more carefully at the really pale ones) but it could be anything from environmental lighting to the fact my eyes are a bit odd.
I usually have the base skin colour when doing flats and then drop a blue overlay and a red overlay on top and then adjust those until the colour "looks right" and then there's more layers on top for shading. This is doing digital though, the only time I've done any appreciable amount of analogue painting was when I was doing art in high school ^_^;
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brilliant brush work!!
Wow, it looks very beautiful, there are almost no artists who master very well the oil painting in digital but it seems that this is your forte. For being in an intermediate stage, the painting has a good finish.
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Wow you have such a classic yet modern feel to your painting. I love it, something really graceful about the hand, the half opened mouth, I would love to see the entire working process.
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