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Oil Painting Update
So last week, when I last wrote about my self-portrait, I had painted in the skin and background but hadn't yet tackled the hair. Originally, I had wanted to leave the hair very sketchy and unfinished, but after putting some color in I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that unless I scrapped the red background and started over, there was no way ( Read more... ) -
A couple of concept sketches for a self-portrait
My oil painting class has moved on from still lifes to self-portraits. My teacher has given us quite a bit of freedom on this second painting - as long as it's a self-portrait, he doesn't really care what else we do. It can be an "introspective inner landscape" if we can explain it later, or it can be a traditional Renaissance-style portrait if ( Read more... )
