Closer

Expressions need to be tuned, other stuff. She looks like she’s leaving forward. Need to fix this and that.

Color theory

Subsurface scattering, global illumination, lighting and shape… man I love figuring out the right colors

for this particular piece

5 Days Progress - Thursday will be a week

Working with oils gives me a lot more options to add details and get the right colors down with blending, and then having fun with timing painting over spots at different stages of drying (a sticky drying surface is wonderful for adding detail in my style, etc). Really loving oils.

So long hours in this today

Started this today. Been going pretty fast and well, lots of hours into it today. I love painting over the black background. I love scumbling and sliding the paint arounf depending on the viscosity, abd how that changes how the paint interacts on canvas.

September 2023

It’s been a busy month + with paintings… these are the main 4 I’m trying desperately to finish up so I can move on - I already have a few sketched up ideas for what’s next. It’s just I need to finish these!