Oil Portrait

One session, three steps, of the oil portrait demo for the Boot Camp in June.

You'll have to wait a couple of weeks for an update.

Step 3:  Refining the clothes shapes.

Step 2: Starting the clothes shapes.

Step 1: Background.

Pastel Portrait

I need a portrait demo completed in oil and pastel for the "1st Annual SRF Visual Arts Boot Camp", June 22nd to June 24th.

This demo is being drawn on a 16 x 20" masonite board, primed and on the wrong side so I have the roughness of the surface to hold the pastel.

I'm having fun doing the pastel demo quickly.

Step 1:  Basic drawing to start.  Really quickly rubbed some soft charcoal on the board to create the dark value.

Step 2:  Brushed the charcoal across the white surface to tone the skin to gray.

Step 3:  Corrected the background colour by adding orange pastel.  (It works to make brown.) 



















Step 4:  Didn't like the left hand side.  It was full of pastel so instead of adding more I used varsol and a brush to paint the colour into one dark value, pushing it into the tooth of the board which allows me to apply more on top.  Similar to a trick in colour pencils.

 It looks more 3 dimensional now.  :)

Step 5:  Laying in colour.

More to come...

Pam

My weekend Oil Painting Workshop

I had a great weekend spent with fellow artists in Timmins, Ont. I gave a workshop on oil painting for the beginner painter in oil. It wasn't a class for beginners in painting, just in oils.

The class had to paint a monotone grayscale painting in acrylics before coming to class. They learned how to apply glazes and then switched to wet on wet painting because there was no time to let the glazes dry.

Some Photos from the weekend:

Students hard at work. More pictures can be seen on the "Friends of the Porcupine Art Club" FACEBOOK page.
















Pam

Ship and Tulips finished!

After waiting so long for the painting to dry, I put a final yellow glaze over the whole painting to unify the warm sunlight. I also put highlights and shadows in cloth. There is a reflection from the wet oil paint in the photograph. I'll take another when it's dry.

Ship and Tulips:

16 x 20" on canvas



I still have to frame it when it is dry.

Pam