Quick oil sketch stages

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Interesting to see your process Paulette. Lovely portrait.

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Wed 26 Feb 20:19:39

Speed is not important. I think these are great and would happily display them together as finished works.

Posted by Alan Green on Thu 27 Feb 04:31:34

Excellent...great to see the stages.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Thu 27 Feb 05:49:55

Love it, what more can I say. Out of interest, what colours did you use for his lips?

Posted by Heather Love on Thu 27 Feb 06:54:59

Perhaps you are practicing for something ....

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 27 Feb 07:37:09

As I am hopeless at portraits, it’s great to see one been done in stages, great painting.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Thu 27 Feb 08:43:04

Thanks for all the great feedback, I'm going to keep going with these. Heather for the lips I don't use a prescriptive mix for lips. The lips are the same value as the rest of our skin but with more red blood cells. I mix a big pile of base tone to match the base tone of the subject that I use for most of the portrait and for the lips I add bits of Alizarin crimson and white to create 2-3 tones for the lips. Hope that helps.

Posted by Paulette Farrell on Thu 27 Feb 10:03:05

Hang on Studio Wall

26/02/2020

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Getting quicker at these now I've sorted my palette out

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Paulette Farrell

Professional Artist. For 2020 I have decided to focus my work on cricket (which I love) and figure / portrait paintings and drawings. Although I am able to draw and paint birds, still lifes and animals and have been successful selling them I noted that whilst painting them I was forever thinking…

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